But the Monkey River in Belize, where two boats with 30 members of the Richmond Dive Club had docked for protection from Hurricane Iris, turned perilous on Monday night.
It wasn't when to signal danger as things were turning perilous; it was a question of discovering who to tell.
Eventually, Jack leads a search for the missing cockpit and the radio it contains, but the journey turns perilous.
His fellow travelers, the Survivors, perform a feat "of suicidal recklessness," the circus boasts, turning perilous 50-foot-high somersaults.
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Since 2000, IndyMac collected deposits from customers and used the money to make lucrative — and, it turns out, perilous — mortgages a rung above subprime.
But movies, as it turns out, play a relatively small role in a book that's more interested in the always perilous struggle of America's liberals and progressives.
Mazzetti observes that the C.I.A., playing catch-up through so much of the Arab Spring, has turned a perilous corner, where a new generation at Langley much prefers "the adrenaline rush of being at the front lines" hunting and killing to the more patient, tedious, "gentle" work of intelligence gathering and espionage.
The crucial point of the rescue was a very narrow section with a turn, perilous to navigate even for experts.
Gone were the nausea-inducing hairpin turns and perilous rock slides that I'd experienced on the old, unpaved road back in 1993.
