Guts and technology, The New York Times

November 9, 2007

The Spanish authorities recently intercepted a canoe off the West African coast with 92 passengers. The canoe had set off from Senegal in early October, bound for the Canary Islands, more than 900 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The boat's motor quit and as it drifted on the high seas for three weeks, 48 people died. The surviving passengers threw the bodies overboard.

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