AUSTRALIA NAVY AIDS CAPSIZED YACHTERS.Byline: Clyde H. Farnsworth The New York Times Tony Bullimore, a British yachtsman entombed Entombed, or entomb, may refer to:
Then he dived from the makeshift net hammock he had lashed to the inverted inverted reverse in position, direction or order. inverted L block a pattern of local filtration anesthesia commonly used in laparotomy in the ox. deck to keep himself above water in an air pocket and witnessed the miracle he had not dared hope for over the 80 hours since his keel broke in a storm in the Southern Ocean. An Australian navy frigate frigate (frĭg`ĭt), originally a long, narrow nautical vessel used on the Mediterranean, propelled by either oars or sail or both. Later, during the 18th and early 19th cent. had pulled alongside. An Orion P-3 search plane circled overhead and a couple of Australian sailors in wet suits on a life raft were peering over the battered hull of his 66-foot ketch. ``It was heaven, absolute heaven,'' the 56-year-old sailor said Thursday in the frigate's sick bay, where he was recovering from hypothermia hypothermia Abnormally low body temperature, with slowing of physiological activity. It is artificially induced (usually with ice baths) for certain surgical procedures and cancer treatments. , dehydration, frostbite frostbite (chilblains), injury to the tissue caused by exposure to cold, usually affecting the extremities of the body, such as the hands, feet, ears, or nose. Extreme cold causes the small blood vessels in the extremities to constrict. and a severed finger. The Australian navy and the Australian air force already had been responsible for the rescue of two other sailors, both Frenchmen, from the raging seas nearby. They too had foundered as they sailed in the Vendee Buyer or purchaser; an individual to whom anything is transferred by a sale. The term vendee is ordinarily used in reference to a buyer of real property. vendee n. a buyer, particularly of real property. VENDEE, contr. Globe Challenge, a solo nonstop round-the-world yacht race. Accounts of the rescues have captured headlines in Australia and Europe and even earned Australia some diplomatic benefits. Australian Foreign Ministry officials expressed surprise and delight at what they described as effusive ef·fu·sive adj. 1. Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression; gushy: an effusive manner. 2. Profuse; overflowing: effusive praise. praise by French President Jacques Chirac for the Australian efforts to save sailors in the French-organized race. The gesture came after months of strain between the two countries over French nuclear testing. Australia had been a leading critic of France's six nuclear blasts in French Polynesia from September 1995 to last January. Yet despite the diplomatic dividends, the mounting cost of sea rescues is a growing Australian concern. The opposition Labor Party wants organizers of yacht races to help foot the bills, which in the past two weeks alone have approached $200,000. While also worried about the costs, government officials insist they have both a moral and a legal obligation to help those in distress. ``Whether it's bush fires or cyclones at sea, we just go out and do those things,'' said Defense Minister Ian McLachlan. |
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