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...night per couple). All are beautiful converted houses, but the lodge has huge rooms, Goan four-posters, the best pool and best sunset view, and its rates include air transfers from the mainland, three spectacular meals a day and use of a dhow to sail to a nearby sandbank for snorkeling and lobster lunch under a sunshade on the beach. See cincoportas.com and iboisland.com for more...
...them from Fujian province, which has seen its natives emigrate all over the world for generations - would have pledged some $30,000 to one of China's notorious snakehead gangs for the promise of a better life. Instead, they were sent to fill bags with cockles on a sandbank far from shore. Of the pittance they would have earned that night, much would have gone to repay their debts to the snakeheads. Lin's trial revealed the culture of intimidation that surrounds illegal Chinese immigrants in Europe. Survivors of the tragedy gave testimony behind screens for fear of reprisals against...
...from western Burma. Only the thick salt marks high on the Mecca's bow hinted that it was ending a voyage longer than most fishing trips. But this was Chittagong, South Asia's premier hub for pirates, gunrunners and smugglers. When the dockworkers saw the Mecca anchoring on a sandbank three kilometers out to sea on the night of Dec. 21, it was a signal to all not to ask questions...
...full pieces, 22 to 24 strokes per minute. Beat the other crew pretty solidly on the first and third, and only marginally on the second piece, although we were helped by the other boat's inexperienced coxswain, whose creative steering maneuvers included running the boat up on the sandbank between Arsenal and North Beacon on the first piece. After practice they said they heard the skeg drag along the bottom, but it stayed attached...
...Salvor Barry Clifford, 41, is running Fisher a close second in treasure hunting. Some 30 ft. down and only 1,200 ft. out from the sunbathers on Cape Cod's Marconi Beach, Clifford is salvaging booty from the Whydah, a 100-ft.-long pirate galley that foundered on a sandbank in 1717. "Everyone grew up knowing the story," recalls Clifford, who first heard the tale of sunken treasure from his crusty, Cape Cod-born uncle. "She was part of our lore...