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...hours, clinging to flotsam and catching raindrops on her outstretched tongue to slake her thirst before a fishing boat rescued her. Some 370 others perished in the disaster, disappearing under the waves along with what had been their hope for a new life, a battered 19-m Sumatran fishing vessel they had been told would ferry them the 36 hours from Tanjungkarang in Sumatra to Australia's Christmas Island. Most of the refugees on this trip were Iraqis like Rokaya, but the passenger list was a roll call of the desperate and downtrodden: Afghans, Algerians, Palestinians, Sudanese...
...RUSSIA The Return of the Kursk More than a year after explosions sank the nuclear submarine Kursk, killing all 118 of its crew, the wreck returned to port. Raised from 108 m down on the Barents Sea floor by a Dutch salvage company, the 155-m, 18,000-ton vessel was clamped to a giant barge for its homecoming. Experts will examine the Kursk in dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, to establish how the submarine foundered. Officials are taking no chances that radiation from the sub?s two 190-megawatt nuclear reactors will leak out or that...
Quandong: “Vessel used in Southeast Asia to travel on rivers...
...black smoke rising from the Pentagon. It was, of course, the third terrorist plane, two others having already slammed into the World Trade Center. America was under siege. The day before, Tsang had draped a New York ferry with a banner advertising Hong Kong's attractions; within hours, that vessel would be carrying away the city's dead and injured...
...chose a three-day trip aboard a junk called the Huang Hai. The sight of her great red cotton sails, hand-stitched with silk, was too picturesque to refuse. So it was something of a disappointment to discover the sails were pure decoration: diesel engines power the vessel. Other modernizations, however, met with wholehearted approval. Below deck, the Huang Hai is loaded with creature comforts. It has eight twin-bedded cabins with attached bathrooms and hot showers. Inside the pilot's hatch is a consoling array of gadgetry, including a global positioning satellite system. And the galley is a paneled...