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...mother's scream rose shrilly. Four-year-old Diana Svet, walking down the gangplank of the Yugoslav passenger-freighter Srbija at a Brooklyn pier last week, had broken away from her mother, started running, slipped and plunged into the narrow crevice between ship and pier...
...instant, Pier Superintendent Ignazio Scibilia yelled an ail-ashore order to his crews, unloading copper from the Srbija. Some 150 husky dockers, used to emergencies, poured from the ship and other parts of the dock. Six loading tractors were swung around with noses pressed against the Srbija's side. Hawsers were slackened, 150 men and six machines pushed, the 10,000-ton ship was forced away from the pier. With just enough space to admit them, three men snaked down into the crevice, hanging on to steel stringers, 18 feet to black water...
...Joseph Sabino. Hands from above lifted her to safety. No more than three minutes had elapsed from her plunge to her rescue. With no space in which to turn their bodies, Zappulla, Balzano and Sabino wriggled up and out of the crevice, fainted from exhaustion on the pier...
...waterfront, two coal barges burned and smoked. The pier had disappeared and so had the lighters and the twelve railroad cars. The Stink House was a torn, shattered wreck; fire danced in its innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards, teetering on roofs. In a still smoking area, littered with dead fish, four bodies were found, but that was all. There was no trace of the 31 men who had been working on the dock. They had been blown to bits...
...pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker dumped off a World War II coal ship. A piece of ancient planking turned out to be part of the town pier. Some mysterious round objects turned out to be weights from a modern fishing net. A bonanza haul of large scallops had a solid market value of three shillings apiece in the London markets. But by week's end the divers had found a genuine Spanish dagger...