It was a stormy night on the Sea of Galilee and the disciples were out in a boat, battling a contrary wind, when they saw Jesus approaching, as if a spirit.
We all remember the 2000 hit movie "The Perfect Storm" starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Diane Lane about the ill-fated Andrea Gail fishing boat battling the confluence of three massive storms in the Atlantic Ocean.
"He deserves the medal". The memories of the Swift boat battles in these waters are now being sharply scrutinized under the divisive lens of the U.S. presidential election, where Kerry's actions under fire have been disputed by a group of veterans.
That hour was profoundly moving: the dazzling, ancient coral expanses promising so much life beneath the ocean surface; the humans on their tiny boats, battling the elements.
Six sinkings, one dead heat, mutiny in the camp, a swimmer in the river and two world-class boats battling with the treacherous conditions on the River Thames - drama is never far away at the Boat Race.
One boat battle with a group of stone men leading to a nearly drowned Tyrion and possibly tragic consequences for Jorah.
This story of a worn-out, elderly Cuban fisherman alone in his small boat battling with a particularly hard-to-land fish and talking only to himself or the unseen fish ("Are you ready? Have you been long enough at table?"), with whom he feels a brotherly bond, is an unlikely candidate for the stage.
p223 A heavy sea was running, but the staunch little boat kept battling on and at 2 50 A.M. she reached the stranded steamer.
"And I do miss going to all the match-racing events and all that sort of racing, the close boat-on-boat battles, because that certainly in this era does not exist nearly to the same level".
At the beginning of the war, he had pushed out the solid and unspectacular Admiral Harold R. Stark as Chief of Naval Operations and replaced him with the legendary Ernest Joseph King. "He was a supreme realist with the arrogance of genius," Ladislas Farago writes in "The Tenth Fleet," a history of the Navy's U-boat battles in the Second World War.
