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WEEK 39 2011
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| Il pouvait emporter 135 kg, pilote compris, sur une distance de 240 kilomètres, et il pouvait atteindre une vitesse maximale de 105 km/h. Il fallait certainement plus de courage que d’habileté au pilote pour se tenir debout au-dessus des deux immenses hélices contrarotatives de 4,60 mètres de diamètre. | It
could carry 135kg (280 lbs) including the pilot, up to 240 kilometers
(144 miles) at speeds up to105km/hr (60 mph). It certainly required
courage to pilot this standing above the huge 4.6m (15ft) spinning
blades. |
Wednesday 28 August 2011
ONCE IN A WHILE YOU FIND YOURSELF IN AN ODD situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it it, you are suddenly astounded as ask yourself how in the world it all came about. If, for example, you put to see with a parrot and five companions, it is inevitable that sooner or later you will wake up on morning out at sea, perhaps a little bit better rested than ordinarily, and begin to think about it. One such morning I sat writing in a dew-drenched notebook --- May 17, Norwegian Independence Day. Heavy sea. Fair Wind. I am cook today and found seven flying fish on deck, one squid on the cabin roof, and one unknown fish in Torstein's sleeping bag. |
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We were visited by whales many times. Most often they were small
porpoises and toothed whales which gamboled about us in large schools
on the surface of the water, but now and then there were big cachalots,
too, and other great whales which appeared singly or in small schools.
Sometimes they passed like ships on the horizon, now and again sending
a cascade of water into the air, but sometimes they steered straight
for us. We were prepared for a dangerous collision the first time a big
whale altered course and came straight toward the raft in a purposeful
manner. As it gradually grew nearer, we could hear its blowing and
puffing, heavy and long drawn, each time it rolled its head out of the
water. It was an enormous, thick-skinned, ungainly land animal that
came toiling through the water, as unlike a fish as a bad is unlike a
bird. It came straight toward our port side, where we stood gathered at
the edge of the raft, while one man sat at the masthead and shouted
that he could see seven or eight more making their way towards us. The big shining black forehead of the first whale was not more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, and then we saw the enormous blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft beneath our feet. It lay there for a time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the whole raft. Then it sank slowly through the bluish water and disappeared from sight. |
