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THEATER | A Gem of the Ocean...
...Crimson’s women had a tricky time during the weekend, finishing 18th of 19 teams at the Yale Women’s Intersectional. With the water embroiled in a heavy chop and the breeze consistently blustering at 20 knots, Yale’s open-ocean course subjected sailors to extremes for which they could not have prepared...
Flash forward: at the helm of his yacht Tenacious, Ted Turner battled 40-ft. waves for four hours in a storm that claimed 19 lives and disabled 210 of 302 vessels in a four-day ocean race in 1979. Turner not only lived to successfully launch an unlikely venture--a 24-hour cable news network called CNN, in 1980--but also won the sea race and later said that even during the worst of the storm his mind was on finishing first...
Targeted chiefly to the BBC’s European audience, the event also addressed the United States’ reputation across the Atlantic Ocean...
...aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first day in the tank, the shark snatched salmon fillets from a pole and swam calmly among...