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...that Egyptian officials are talking about an international tour and a permanent museum of underwater archaeology in Alexandria. Recently, as his latest Herakleion mission was winding down, Goddio, who is 54 and lives in Paris, stood in shorts and a baseball cap on the deck of his survey vessel, Princess Duda, watching as a red granite naos was hoisted on board. "We cannot identify it yet," he explains. "We hope to discover some more clues about it during the next excavation." Most archaeologists could consider the discovery the achievement of a lifetime. For Goddio, it was another day's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Cities | 6/9/2002 | See Source »

...testing. But rarely does the practice have such tragic consequences. And yet it doesn't seem that any lesson was learned. Last December, a little more than a year after the Kursk disaster, Russian President Vladimir Putin commissioned another nuclear submarine, the Gepard. According to TIME's source, that vessel's floating capsule had never been tested either. --By Yuri Zarakhovich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why No One Escaped from the Kursk | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Almost a year later, Hirschman provided medical assistance when pirates boarded a Swedish vessel off the coast of Venezuela and shot a sailor...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saving Lives at Sea With a Wireless in Hand | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...Daniel, earned a major award for sailing a nine-foot dinghy from Florida to the Bahamas. And six years later, they became the first Americans ever to sail around Cape Horn in a vessel less than 30 feet long...

Author: By Anat Maytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Set Designer Founds Famed Theatre of the Deaf | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...Norah won't speak; she wears a sign around her neck that reads, simply, GOODNESS. Reta is Shields' not-quite alter ego, and like Shields, she is discovering a realm of pain she never knew existed. "The whole sense of sadness, of the end of things, of the broken vessel--everything is there," says Shields in her quiet, serious voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Turning Over The Last Page | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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