Word: reefing
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...watching the flying fish skitter like fusiform silver bugs from the indigo waves, you slip into the most delectable and mindless of rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento mori...
...writes the novel (his fifth) as if he were on board the Eden and living on short rations. Every fictional resource is jettisoned except snippets of descriptive prose and huge chunks of West Indian pidgin dialect ("Dis de oniest place I ever see bonita on de inside of de reef"). He does not even allow himself access to his characters' thoughts. As far as this novel is concerned, they are what they...
Your leather-bound classics with the cut India-leaf pages are hopelessly water-stained-those that did not sink on the coral reef coming in. And so the hypothetical question has become not what one Great Book but what one Great Reader would you want to be shipwrecked with on a desert island. For the past four decades, the right answer for the literate Robinson Crusoe has been Cyril Connolly, who died last November...
Ford's Donovan's Reef, with John Wayne, and a Griffith short, Thursday...
...Link was checking and collecting fish traps near the wreckage of an old Navy destroyer, the Fred T. Berry. The ship had been scuttled last year to create a man-made reef that would encourage marine growth, and Sea-Link was trying to determine how successful the project had been. Suddenly, Sea-Link's crew heard the harsh, rasping sound of metal rubbing against metal. Apparently pushed off course by an unexpectedly strong current, the sub had become ensnarled in cables and other debris around the sunken warship. "I'm hung up," radioed Sea-Link's pilot...