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...dilapidated galleon heads into Port Royal, and atop it stands the proudly scurvy Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). As it glides shoreward, the ship is taking on water and has nearly sunk by the time it reaches land--allowing Jack to step lithely, blithely and with Astaire timing from the crow's nest onto the Port Royal dock. This little scene, reminiscent of a visual gag in a Buster Keaton silent comedy, comes at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, cuing audiences to the suspense, grace and fun of the next two hours...
...pass before the alarm is raised. By then the floe has become an immense island ten miles long and five miles wide. Already more than 100 yds. of dark water separate it from Ohio. The ice fishermen know it may soon begin to break up. Some make for the shoreward side, in hopes that small boats manned by local fire brigade volunteers will find them. When rescue boats finally do crunch up to the ice and begin taking people aboard a captain has to explain, "We came to rescue you, not your stuff." As they are ferried to shore...
...were off Fort Sullivan, which stands at the tail end of a low, sandy, four-mile-long island that is roughly the shape of a sperm whale. It was built to guard the northern entrance to Charles Town Harbor, but its palmetto-wood walls are still incomplete on the shoreward sides, where they stand only 7 feet high. The British would seize the fort and garrison it, Clinton decided, and thus interdict all trade and privateer traffic to and from the busiest port south of Philadelphia...
...sunny Miami Beach morning seemed perfect for a swim. But from his lookout perch, Lifeguard Al Moore spotted some purplish blobs-Portuguese men-of-war were drifting shoreward. Moore chalked up a warning on a big blackboard at the Biltmore Terrace Hotel: "Danger-No Ocean Bathing Today...
...frenzied embrace. Brewer freed himself and surfaced; Wood was nowhere to be seen. Recruit Thomas Doorhy dragged Donald O'Shea to sounder footing, then left to help others. That was the last time anybody saw O'Shea alive. Recruit John Edward Martinez pulled Charles Reilly shoreward to chest-deep water. Reilly gasped: "I'm O.K." Martinez left him-and Reilly disappeared. Recruit Joseph Anthony Moran (son of Actress Thelma Ritter) brought Leroy Thompson to relative safety and went out again. Thompson went under. So did little Jerry Thomas. So did Tom Hardeman, the platoon's best...