Word: shipwreck
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...member crew would find the cargo of the legendary Spanish galleon Nuestra Seņora de Atocha, never seemed to arrive. Still, Fisher's cheerful shout kept the crew going through the tough, fruitless years when other salvagers gave up the search for the famed and mysterious 17th century mass shipwreck in which eight or nine vessels were lost...
...doubt that otherworldly events are going on. In the pilot, there is a bona fide miracle (the shadow of Christ appears on a mountainside in Mexico), a Satanist cuts off his own finger without bleeding, and a baby--who may be the Antichrist or Christ reborn--impossibly survives a shipwreck. It's over-the-top stuff, but so is the Book of Revelation itself, and while the dialogue is campy and portentous ("All the signs and symbols set forth in the Bible are currently in place for the end of days!"), it delivers a good old New Testament scare...
...heroes of Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers (Random House; 375 pages) go to very great lengths, and even greater depths, to do precisely that. Their story began in 1991 when Bill Nagle, captain of a charter boat catering to scuba divers, got wind of an unexplored shipwreck 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. He quickly rounded up a dirty dozen of recreational divers, including a Vietnam veteran named John Chatterton, and sailed out for a look-see. A quick underwater peek revealed that the wreck was, unbelievably, a World War II--vintage German U-boat, nestled...
...submarine lay in 230 ft. of water, which is about as deep as a very experienced shipwreck diver can safely go. But when shipwreck divers say safe, they mean what other people mean when they say insanely dangerous. Drowning is the least of it; many divers are found dead with full tanks of air on their backs. Other hazards include the bends--brought on by ascending from the depths too rapidly--unreliable equipment, panicky colleagues grabbing another diver's air supply, collapsing shipwrecks and nitrogen narcosis, a state of mental impairment that afflicts divers below 70 ft. or so. Kurson...
...Hume Cronyn on the Craft of Acting In his career of more than 60 years, actor Hume Cronyn, who died last month [Milestones, June 30], portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from a shipwreck survivor in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat to a grumpy old man in the Cocoon comedies of the 1980s. He talked to TIME about acting as a profession in an April 2, 1990, article...