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- <text id=93TT1585>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Fantastic Voyage
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Fantastic Voyage
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A century-old goal is finally achieved on the high seas
- </p>
- <p> Machines are faster and the world a lot smaller than when
- Jules Verne wrote Around the World in 80 Days more than a century
- ago. But it was not until last week that the challenge set down
- in 1873 by Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg--to circle the globe
- in 80 days--was conquered on the high seas. Aboard the 86-ft.
- sail-powered catamaran Commodore Explorer, French adventurer
- Bruno Peyron and his crew of four sailed triumphantly into
- France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking
- from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record
- (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of
- whales off Brazil, cracking a hull, and nearly lost two crewmen
- in a mid-Atlantic gale. Ultimately, Peyron prevailed through wit
- and guile, not technology. Fogg would have approved.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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