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...Sharks. Ten miles out of Port Sudan, a high wind drove Ghalib's craft with a splintering roar on to a submerged coral reef called Tarfaniya. Twenty-two pilgrims arid two sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...
Hour after hour, the sharks circled the reef. At night the wind blew steadily out of the north, kicking up a chilling spray; during the day, the sun beat down unmercifully on the surviving pilgrims and the two sailors. They had little bundles of water-soaked food which they ate. There was no fresh water. Some pilgrims drank salt water. Four child pilgrims lost their hold on the tower and slipped into the sea. The sharks glided in to claim them...
...Eighth Day. On the fourth day, a sambuk sighted them but could not come close enough to the reef to take them off. Instead, the two sailors and two of the Nigerians swam out to the sambuk, which sailed away-for help, the pilgrims thought. But no help came. The pilgrims did not know it, but the four rescued men, on reaching Port Sudan, had been hidden in the Fellata and told not to talk under threat of death. Another pilgrim fell into the sea and the sharks took him quickly. All the pilgrims were now drinking sea water, praying...
...southwest wind which the Italians call libeccio roared down on the U.S. refrigerator ship Grommet Reefer one night last week outside the crammed seaport of Leghorn. In the raging seas, the ship's engines were powerless as eggbeaters. Within minutes, the Grommet Reefer was hung up on a reef only 150 yards from shore...
...raft Kon-Tiki, which drifted across the Pacific from Peru to the Raroia Reef near Tahiti, may have been traveling a two-way highway. This is the theory of Dr. Thomas Davis of New Zealand, who believes that Polynesians made the roundtrip passage in great sailing canoes. If they stayed far enough south, they were helped by the prevailing winds and currents that cross that part of the Pacific from west to east. On the return trip, they were able to use the same winds and currents that favored the Kon-Tiki on its crossing near the equator. In fact...