« Six Apart acquires Live Journal | Main | Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Media Stories, 2003 - 2004 » "Islandboy no more"A powerful, touching piece by Morquendi (Sanjay Senanayake), who's been covering the tsunami at Chiens Sans Frontiers, about his love of the sea... and the sea's betrayal of that love. [Link] August last year I was chasing Indian trawlers off the coast of Pesalai in Mannar. They were coming in from Rameshwaram and fishing in Sri Lankan waters. The fishermen wanted the story broken. I wanted a big story to break. So there we were, me and my crew, on a motor boat rigged with two engines for double the speed, racing through the seas in the Palk Straight, chasing trawlers with Rameshwaram registration. After a few minutes we couldn’t see land and I was exhilarated. We did catch them. I got my story and the fishermen got the exposure they wanted. But that is another tale. On our way back to shore I asked how deep the sea was. We were about 5 miles from shore. They told me it was about a hundred feet deep. I took off my t-shirt and jumped in right off the moving boat. I dove to see if they were kidding about the depth. At about twenty feet when my ears began to hurt I swam back up. I’ll never forget that. Surrounded by nothing but the sea on all sides. No shore in sight. jon posted this at 7:15 AM |
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