Word: reef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secrets of the Reef (Butterfield & Wolf) is a submarine gem, dredged from the waters of the Bahamas and Florida's Marineland oceanarium and polished by three bright young Harvardmen (Lloyd Ritter, Robert Young and Murray Lerner). The product of a three-year effort and a paltry $150,000, it is one of the best films thus far of the brave new underworld of the skindiver, where the actors are all baresark and the dialogue is in bubbles...
...little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally passage for the record field of 89 boats, and one had even gone down on a Bermuda reef. But Finisterre's owner, Carleton Mitchell, a wealth-upholstered free-lance writer and photographer, had hardly minded. Said he: "Really, it was a wonderful race. We had terrific meals, and outside of creature discomforts like water running down your neck to your navel, it was just swell...
...Mushroom Cloud. The race began almost too calmly. A fickle Rhode Island westerly died to a breeze of only two knots as the yachts edged in toward the starting line between the forward mast of the Brenton Reef Lightship and a white flag on the committee boat. But in a few hours the wind freshened, and the field scudded off on the fastest Bermuda race in history...
...many. Visitors follow the relaxed, happy life of Australians, splash in the surf that pounds its beaches, and go to see the original Teddy bears at the Koala Bear Sanctuary in Brisbane. More adventurous types can fly out to Hayman Island (round trip: $209) on the Great Barrier Reef, where there is a good hotel ($5 per day) and some of the world's best skindiving and big game fishing, or go on a three-week hunting trip (cost: $210) for monster crocodiles in the lonely Bay of Carpenteria...
Prince Tungi of Tonga believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...