Survival Amongst Strangers at Sea
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Six men and three women — against the sea and each other.
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Survival Dynamics in an Isolated Lifeboat
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What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat?
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Survival Instincts: Gender in Crisis
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Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat?
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Scientific Perspective on Ice and Carbon
Willy: [fixing her diamond bracelet]
Looks like bits of ice.
Connie Porter:
I wish they were.
Willy:
They're really nothing but a few pieces of carbon crystallized under high pressure at great heat.
Connie Porter:
Quite so, if you want to be scientific about it.
Willy:
I'm a great believer in science.
Connie Porter:
Like tears, for instance. They're nothing but H2O with a trace of sodium chloride.
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Leadership Decision in Lifeboat Situation
John Kovac:
As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
Gus Smith:
I'll buy it.
Stanley Sparks Garrett:
Suits me. What about you, Miss?
Alice MacKenzie:
I'm for it.
George Joe Spencer:
Yes, sir!
Charles D. Ritt Rittenhouse:
Well, if the rest agree.
Connie Porter:
All right, Commissar, what's the course?
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Nature and Identity in Conflict
Gus Smith: [referring to Willie]
A guy can't help being a German if he's born a German, can he?
John Kovac:
Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!
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Reflections on Past Trauma and Survival
Connie Porter: [speaking of the disaster]
Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking.
John Kovac: [[Nazi]
Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those ] buzzards — a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
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Identity and Shame in Lifeboat
Gus Smith:
My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!
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Questioning Connie's Origin in Lifeboat
Charles D. Ritt Rittenhouse: [seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat]
Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?
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A Call to Reunite with Rosie
Willy: [to the delirious Gus; Willy pushes Gus overboard]
There's Rosie! She's waiting for you!
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Human Vulnerability vs. Iron Strength
Connie Porter:
We're not like you! You're made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!
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The Intimacy of Shared Mortality
Connie Porter:
Dying together's even more personal than living together.
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