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Before 26th September Joola Ferry Disaster A Sengegalese state-run ferry, The Joola, sank off the coast of The Gambia , a former British colony on 26th September with over 700 people onboard. About 30 passengers and crew were rescued after the Joola overturned. Wed October 9th Stranded Queen rescued on freezing river. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were rescued when their boat broke down in freezing temperatures on Winnipeg’s Red River during her visit to Canada. Tues Oct 22nd Vietnamese divers have finished recovering more than 50,000 ceramic objects including bowls, vases, plates and cups from an ancient shipwreck off the country's central coast. The objects, thought to be from the early 17th century, still need to be dated and identified by archaeologists. Wed Oct 23rd Canada's Martel wins Booker Prize. Yann Martel wrote a winning novel about a boy brought up in an Indian zoo. When their family moves to live in Canada, their boat is shipwrecked and Pi finds himself on a raft with a hyena, an orangutang, a zebra and a Bengal tiger. During Mon 28th October Holed warship gets piggyback home. A crippled high-tec British warship the HMS Nottingham, holed on rocks near a remote Tasman Sea island three months ago, is set to leave Australia today for a six-week ride home on a heavy-lift ship back. Tues Oct 29th Quebec diver says he'll go to UN to push for sale of shipwreck items. Philip Beaudry said he plans to go to the next UNESCO meeting in Dec to argue Canada is not justified in blocking him from selling objects he recovered from Canada's worst shipwreck in 1914. After Tues Nov 19th Massive pollution feared as oil spill tanker sinks off Spain. Tues 5th Dec Singapore slick as ships collide. Sat 14th Dec Ship sinks after Channel collision (Norwegian car-carrier). The following article cleverly sums up the theme of the proving of 'Shipwreck' : Friday 13th Dec 2002 Author Cussler, master of sea adventures, to retire. After 3 decades of spinning tales about lost ships and sunken treasures , Clive Cussler, author of best-selling adventure books 'Raise the Titanic' and 'Night Probe!', is tired and plans to quit. 71 yr old Cussler said in an interview : "The imagination is still working, but the drive is just gone. I can't explain it. I guess (after) 35 years of this stuff. .........I'm tired of it." Physical symptoms As this proving only lasted a week, the physical symptoms are mostly acute and centre around cold-like feelings, feeling cold , low thirst, headaches and nocturia (weeing in the night).P2: 'Wed 30th October 6.20am. Started sneezing about 5 mins after taking pill, got small headache, but didn't last long. (Don't often have headaches).' P2: 'Sat 2nd November 4.55am.......noticed I have the habit of going to the toilet in the middle of the night, these past few nights.' P2: 'Sun 3rd November 5.45am. Awoke, extremely cold, noticed change of temperature and felt dizzy walking to toilet. Have heavy head cold, blocked and runny nose.' P3: 'Sat 2nd November . Slept badly, was cold in the night.' P5: 'Tues 29th October 8am fluent choryza, clear both nostrils. Coughing 10-10.40 small white phlegm. Mild headache L temple (on and off all day) Hot & feverish in evening, gland swelling in neck from 4-9. Slept (in my overcoat) 6.00 - 7.15.' P6: 'Tues 29th October. At 21.00 feel sneezy, it does not feel like a cold but more like a kind of allergy. It goes after a while.' P6: 'Wed 30th October. 7.00 Woke up, I've got a bit of a runny nose, just a little bit.' P6: 'Thurs 31st October. 11.30 Began to feel tired and headachy, fluish??' P1: 'Thurs 31st October. 8.30am I wake up feeling OK but a little snotty!' P7: 'Tues 30th Oct I woke in the night for a wee.' 'Thurs 31st Oct I woke up in the night for a wee.' 'Fri 1st Nov I woke up in the night for a wee. 'Sat 2nd Nov Took 5th and final pill before bed last night. I woke up in the night for a wee.' ..........after he'd finished the pills this didn't happen again. |