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Ultimately, Hazelwood's fate turned on one question: whether he was drunk at the time of the accident. Witnesses testified that they had seen the captain drinking in Valdez bars on the afternoon before his ship set sail. The prosecution also introduced tests taken eleven hours after the crash that showed Hazelwood with a blood-alcohol level of 0.061%, higher than the Coast Guard's 0.04% limit for a seaman operating a moving vessel. But Hazelwood's lawyers suggested he might have imbibed after the accident occurred to settle his badly shattered nerves. The captain never took the witness stand...
Just as I choose a ship to sail in or a house to live in, so I choose a death for my passage from life...
...peninsula in 1956, and luxury cruises started a decade later. Although commercial flights stopped after an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashed into Mount Erebus in 1979, killing all 257 aboard, ship travel has thrived. About 3,500 people, mostly Americans, paid $5,000 to $16,000 to sail over from South America last year. They generally stayed in Antarctica four or five days. Most boats carry naturalists or other experts, who give lectures, and groups often visit scientific stations. So many boats cruise along the peninsula between November and March that it has been dubbed the "Antarctic Riviera." Chile...
They had reached safe harbor on a sail and a prayer. In the past 21 months alone, more than 40,000 Vietnamese boat people pitched their way across the South China Sea to Hong Kong, mostly in rickety, open vessels. Last week 51 of them -- eight men, 17 women and 26 children -- learned they had risked their lives for nothing. Awakened at 3 a.m. at the Phoenix House refugee detention center in Kowloon, they were asked to gather their belongings, then herded into trucks by government personnel, some equipped with batons and shields. From there they were taken...
Enveloped in boredom and ennui, a group of middle class lovers and friends sail to the Southern Mediterranean islands for a holiday. Without warning, one of them, Anna, disappears. The group searches the area desperately trying to recover their lost friend. Antonioni deftly exposes hidden motivations and repressed desires in his characters as the group inevitably disintegrates...