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Several of you have forwarded me Wired’s coverage of a salvage operation on a sinking cargo ship.

It is a good story, yes, but not such a good article; editing has never been Wired’s strength. Within a few pages, the project is described as “a sort of orchestrated water ballet” and “an unusual, waterlogged symphony”, and the ship is compared to “a stunned boxer after a heavy blow” who “has been trying to figure out whether it can do this, whether it can really return to the land of the living”. If you enjoy reading about ship disasters but would like fewer mixed metaphors involving undead boxers, I recommend reading about the RORO ferry Estonia in William Langeweische’s The Outlaw Sea.

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