The reader's heart races, the ship moving toward its doom is so laden with the stuff of life.
It was at this hour, shortly after daybreak, that the news of Sir Hector's death raced through the ship, quickly followed by whispers that there would have to be a burial at sea.
Although not for long: Sofie Gråbøl told me that she forgot she was wearing them when Lund went racing round the ship, and promptly fell down a set of stairs.
John Purshouse, the owner of a car parts recycling business in Perth, Australia, who is paying his own way, nearly missed the race after the shipping container carrying his modified Ford Ranger T1 mistakenly arrived in Italy rather than Russia.
Stuck on the Daedalus, the team seeks to find a way to return, while they run into contact with a newly introduced alien race and find the ship's new drive is slowly burning out, and they could be stranded in another universe forever.
Hit the track Head to the Dubai Camel Racecourse for a thrilling evening of dromedary drag racing as the ships of the desert compete in the traditional sport of the United Arab Emirates.
Pirates in speed boats raced up to the ship under cover of darkness and unleashed a volley of automatic gunfire, but security guards on the liner fought them off.
As crews at Pier 88 in New York raced to convert the ship for war duty, a spark from an acetylene torch started a blaze in a stack of life vests, and the flames spread "like fire in dry grass," according to Harvey Ardman's book "Normandie: Her Life and Times".
After the race, the cars were shipped back to the United States by the same method.
Cramming a bunch of youths, most of them metaphorically though soon literally green, on to a handful of vessels, they raced the "tall ships" from Torbay to Lisbon.And that was supposed to be that.
