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Read previewThe maker of Mike Lynch's superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily, said it was "absolutely stable" and that it never should have gone down. It went down in 16 minutes," Costantino told the Financial Times. Advertisement"The boat sank because it took on water," Costantino said. Advertisement"The water came in from [hatchways] left open," Costantino told FT. "There is no other possible explanation. Witnesses told BBC News they saw a waterspout — an uncommon weather phenomenon consisting of tornadolike wind and water — before the ship went down.
Persons: , Mike Lynch's superyacht, Lynch, Hannah, Mike Lynch, Yui Mok, Giovanni Costantino, Costantino, Recaldo Thomas, Stephen Askins, MailOnline, Matthew Schanck, Schanck Organizations: Service, Business, Divers, Italian Coastguard, Italian Sea Group, Financial Times, BBC News Locations: Sicily, Palermo, Italy, London
U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China
  + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +21 min
The original network of fixed spy cables, which lie in secret locations on the ocean floor, was designed to spy on Soviet submarines seven decades ago, the three people said. China, meanwhile, is working on its own maritime spy program, known as the Great Underwater Wall, two U.S. Navy sources told Reuters. Sense of urgencyAmerica’s underwater espionage program was launched in the 1950s with a submarine detection system known as the Sound Surveillance System. The U.S. Navy’s Undersea Surveillance System The United States is expanding and upgrading its anti-submarine surveillance capabilities as tensions rise with China. Japan also operates a fleet of three ocean surveillance ships, fitted with U.S. SURTASS cables, the two U.S. Navy sources said.
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Instead, they arrested and charged only one person, Askins, who had a criminal record of nonviolent drug offenses. His file showed that he had depression, anxiety and PTSD from being raped by a neighbor when he was 9. Mai left private practice and took a 40 percent pay cut to become a public defender in his home state because he wanted to work cases like this. He had imagined himself fighting for the underdog, standing and delivering in front of a jury like his idol, Clarence Darrow, whose trial victories helped advance the civil rights movement. In his almost two years as a public defender, he had never once taken a case to trial.
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Most of the captains were freed after a few weeks once ship owners made unofficial payments to navy intermediaries of between $300,000 and $400,000, the people said. The Indonesian navy has said it never requests or receives money to release vessels. Ledoux, 57, questioned why more wasn't being done by ship owners and governments to raise awareness of the issue. An Indonesian navy spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Reuters has not seen what evidence was presented at the trial to prove the ship was in Indonesian waters.
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