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"Still hanging Our paddle-ood shape, but our sail has a few rips and tears"

"Our food and water supply also caood shape," volunteered Maeve

"Then we cah he didn't quite believe it

"Not for long, I fear," Pitt said tautly

Maeve stared around the seee that can't be repaired"

"Nor I," Giordino agreed after exarity of the buoyancy tubes

"You didn't look down"

In the bright rim tension that was reflected on Pitt's face They stared in the direction he gestured and suddenly realized that any hope of survival had rapidly vanished

There, running the entire length of the bottoinning to seep water

Rudi Gunn was not into sweat and the thrill of victory He relied on hishabits and hisand trim Once or twice a week, as today, when thehis lunch hour, along side Sandecker, as a jogging nut The admiral's daily run took hih Potomac Park The exercise was by no means conducted in silence As one man ran and the other rode, the affairs of NUMA were discussed as if they were conversing in an office

"What is the record for someone adrift at sea?" asked Sandecker as he adjusted a sweatband around his head

"Steve Callahan, a yachtsman, survived 76 days after his sloop sank off the Canary Islands," answered Gunn, "the longest for one man in an inflatable raft The Guinness World Record holder for survival at sea is held by Poon Lim, a Chinese steas set adrift on a raft after his ship was torpedoed in the South Atlantic during World War Two He survived 133 days before being picked up by Brazilian fishermen"

"Was either adrift during a force ten blow?"

Gunn shook his head "Neither Callahan nor Poon Lim was hit with a storm near the intensity of the typhoon that swept over Dirk, Al and Miss Fletcher"

"Going on teeks since Dorsett abandoned them," said Sandecker between breaths "If they outlasted the stor badly from thirst and exposure to the elements"