The New Yorker Magazine (№ 18th May 2020) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2020-05-11T08:53:52+00:00

The Pressure Drop, anchored in the Svalbard archipelago. The least-known region of the seafloor lies under the Arctic Ocean.

and then sail us all to a certain death?” on planes, but if Victor said, ‘I want to and got them to follow him to bum-But Buckle wasn’t so sure. A year ear-

buy a 747,’ I wouldn’t go up and say, ‘Yes, fuck nowhere.” In the evenings, Buckle lier, when he’d first walked up the gang-that one is great—buy that one.’ I’d get and his crew drank beer on the top plank, he wondered why Triton had choa pilot or a flight engineer to do it.” deck, and tossed pizza slices to alliga-sen this ship. The Pressure Drop hadn’t Buckle’s first officer recalled, “The ship tors in the bayou. The ship came with been in service in several years. The hull was fucking breaking apart.”

no manuals, no electrical charts. “It

was watertight, but there were holes in

After the purchase, Buckle and a was just a soul-destroying, slow pro-the steel superstructure, and the ship-

small crew of mostly Scottish sailors cess,” Buckle said.

yard had stripped every functional com-

spent two months living near a dock

Now Buckle was steering the Pres-

ponent. The steering system had been yard in Louisiana, refitting and repair-sure Drop into the Southern Ocean, the

wired in reverse; turn one way and the ing the ship. “Stu took a huge risk—

site of the most reliably violent seas in

ship went the other. “It’s a classic case not only for himself but for all his the world. After a few nights, Erlend of people who have spent a lot of time officers,” McCallum told me. “He Currie, a sailor from the Orkney Islands, on boats thinking they know boats,” handpicked the guys, pulled them off shoved a life jacket under the far side of Buckle told me. “I’ve spent a lot of time of very well-paying oil-and-gas jobs, his bunk, so that the mattress would form 38

THE NEW YORKER, MAY 18, 2020

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