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...people of Uwajima know the sea. Located at the western tip of rural Shikoku Island, they go out to fish in nearby waters and culture pearls in the bay. From their history they understand that the ocean can be capricious and cruel...
...U.S.S. Greeneville rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 30 m out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with...
...Trident submarine that can fire nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. No, correct that. I sat nervously in the inboard seat, my hands gripping the steering wheel in front of me tightly. A young sailor and diving officer behind me actually drove the sub as it sailed under the Atlantic Ocean, telling me every move to make with the "stick," their nickname for the wheel. Steering a nuclear-powered submarine sounds impressive, but on the boat the job usually goes to the crew's junior seamen, some no older than...
...around 123,000 left homeless after a devastating earthquake hit El Salvador, the second to strike the country in a month. Measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, the new quake was smaller than January's but caused huge damage because its epicenter was on land rather than under the ocean. At week's end, many roads in the worst-affected areas were still blocked, hampering the distribution of food, water and medicines...
...Book," there will be no media circus shouting my brilliance, no interviews to explain how my strong values pushed me to early success, no trip to the kid-friendly Rosie O'Donnell Show. My age will no longer end in "-teen," making me a tadpole in a big ocean just like everyone else, with no special accommodations for my teenage innocence...