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    cheaply. While the corporation may place pressure on the engineer, it is the duty of the engineer to both refuse to comply and report this company’s disregard of public safety to the regulatory body. The greatest engineering disaster caused by this type of pressure was the nuclear reactor disaster in Chernobyl. Despite guidelines being in place for nuclear tests, they were blatantly ignored in favor of rapid results and appeasement of the soviet communist party directors. During the production…

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    tells of his story of a ship wreck in the freezing Antarctic seas. Lewis had recently graduated from college and was pursuing his dream of being a scientific observer. He received his first job from a fishing company in South Africa who would be fishing south of the island, South Georgia. While out at seas, the boat experiences several mechanical problems during a storm and the crew has to abandon ship. Seventeen crewmembers perished before being rescued by another fishing ship close by, the…

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    age. The two other families are scared of the ship but Charlotte is left, the only girl and child on the ship. She also does not have her parents. A man named Mr. Grummage a very serious man brings here to the ship on the way there the people carrying the suitcases are scared of many times by the infamous Captain Jaggery and the a ship the Seahawk.. Waiting to get on the ship she sees somebody sneak in. She dismisses it. Finally she gets on the ship and is escorted to a tiny cabin. A sailor…

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    towards the ship, the two run into Elijah. Elijah asks if there were four or five men that boarded the ship, Ishmael replies with a yes and explains that it was hard to tell because of how dim it was outside. The two board the ship taking notice that it seems empty. The two wonder where Captain Ahab is. The two ask a lonely man named Starbuck aboard the ship and he says that Captain Ahab has already boarded the ship and is in his cabin. The next morning, the sailors begin to board the ship. As…

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    Pirates Codes And Codes

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    them. Several of the codes were consistent throughout several pirate ships. Things like every man has a vote in every affair regarding the ship or no woman shall be allowed amongst them; these were two of the many rules set upon pirate ships. They had more codes and rules, but these two…

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    Runaways Alternate Ending

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    against the ship, until I dozed off and had another weird dream that was filled with gigantic sea monsters. Some wanted to chat, and others wanted to devour me. The clang of a dinner bell woke me. I glanced out of the porthole and saw that the rain had stopped. Relieved, I dashed into the dining hall and sat next to Tinlef. “Well, Aiden, I see you’ve changed into your battle attire.” I nodded, still half asleep. The table was covered with serving platters piled high with different types of…

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    The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. They had finally arrived back from the snorkeling trip on the boat. It was a long journey on that ship. They set off sail from the port one week ago, when they were supposed to be out on sea for one day. They left the island one week ago to go snorkeling in the beautiful coral reefs of the Caribbean. It took them aground two hours to get the coral reef. The boat had finally arrived and everyone was so excited, it was so…

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    Sushil G C Prof. April Braden HIST 1301-71003 21 October 2017 BLACKBEARD BIOGRAPHY Pirate refers to the person who attacks and robs the ship at the sea violently. We all are familiar with the word pirate as we have been told stories about them directing the golden age when they were the legends of the sea since from our childhood. One of the notorious pirates was “Blackbeard” who was perhaps one of the major figure associated with the “Golden Age of Piracy” that was roughly between 1716 to 1726…

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    bad conditions, the mask of darkness, a open hatch, a worn down crew, a clerical error and a radar malfunction led to the demise of this ship. None of the seven crew members expected these unfortunate events to…

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    and seize a ship which is suspected of infringing its laws. The right, which has been developing in one form or another since the 19th century, was comprehensively elaborated in article 111 of the 1982 Convention, building upon…

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