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...know what happened," said Peter Willcox, skipper of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. "There were some loud bangs, the boat shook and we sank within four minutes." The 130-ft. converted trawler was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand, last week, preparing to lead a protest of French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. Two explosions ripped a 6-ft. by 8-ft. hole in the hull, scuttling the vessel stern first in 24 ft. of water and killing Ship Photographer Fernando Pereira. The twelve other people reportedly on board escaped unharmed...
...hilly resort island of Bornholm, a tiny speck of Denmark that rises from the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, the crew of the Danish trawler Soraya was catching cod one March morning. As the men hauled their fish on board, Theis Branick, 24, went beneath the net to open it. When the fish spilled out onto the deck, he found the net had also caught something else - a large, yellow-brown lump of solidified mustard gas from World War II. "It was a huge piece, weighing about 15 kg, and with no traces of the metal casing," says Michael...
...officials claimed that the submarine's nuclear reactor posed no environmental threat. Great Catch THE SOUTHERN OCEAN An Uruguayan fishing vessel suspected of poaching the prized Patagonian toothfish from Australian waters was escorted back to Australia after armed fisheries officials boarded the ship following a three-week chase. The trawler has 85 tons of fish aboard; its crew could be fined up to $350,000 and spend 12 months in jail. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE ... Almost Poached President George W. Bush's personal chef, Walter Scheib, got steamed when jokers from a French TV show - disguised as President Chirac's wife...
...marks Brazil's third failed attempt since 1997 to become the first Latin American nation to launch satellites into space. High Seas Chase THE SOUTHERN OCEAN An Australian customs ship and a South African polar vessel were chasing a Uruguayan fishing boat late last week, aiming to board the trawler suspected of poaching prized Patagonian toothfish before it reached Uruguay. Uruguayan authorities ordered it to keep going, and dodging icebergs, the trawler sailed...
...indication. Gore Verbinski's U.S. version works best when it copies directly from the original: the suspenseful opening and the hackle-raising climax (with a ghost crawling out of a TV set). Still, the Japanese film dragged at just 90 minutes; the remake is nearly two hours, with a trawler of new red herrings introduced but little value added. And though Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive) carries the film in the role originated by Nanako Ma-tsushima, she can't single-handedly lift it beyond a stale spook sonata...