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It's close to midnight on Saturday, August 3rd, 1991. A tempest

rages along South Africa's eastern cape.

Three miles offshore, almost invisible in the darkness.

A luxury cruise ship lies half-capsized in the water.

With the power out the MTS Oceanis is illuminated only

by her emergency lights. Aze red beacons rise and fall with the monstrous swell.

In the churning water below the ship,

smaller flashes of white flicker than fade.

Distressed signals from the four lifeboats carrying 350 of her passengers,

adrift with the mercy of the storm.

Though no one has seen it, somewhere out here is a fifth lifeboat,

the first to leave, the only one with a motor, the one carrying many of the ship's senior crew.

Back on board the stricken liner, over 200 souls remain.

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