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<v Speaker 1>Unsolved mysteries. Truth is stranger than fiction. The story which

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<v Speaker 1>you are about to hear is a true narrative, based

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<v Speaker 1>upon actual recorded facts.

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<v Speaker 2>Yet the exact solution.

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<v Speaker 1>Has baffled authorities the world over, and the case remains

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<v Speaker 1>even today as one of the unsolved mysteries of.

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<v Speaker 2>The high Seas.

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<v Speaker 1>Tonight we hear a true sea mystery, the story of

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<v Speaker 1>the American brigantine, the Marie Celeste, a vessel of five

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<v Speaker 1>hundred tons burthen carrying a crew of thirteen. The scene

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<v Speaker 1>is the broad sweep of the North Atlantic. It is

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<v Speaker 1>the morning of December fifth. Officers and crew of the

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<v Speaker 1>British ship De Gracia are about their duties. Mist Rising

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<v Speaker 1>from the water assumes weird and groutesque forms in the pale,

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<v Speaker 1>uncertain sunlight.

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<v Speaker 2>The captain the first.

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<v Speaker 1>Made her on the bridge, unmindful of the tragedy they're

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<v Speaker 1>about to discover. All unmindful that bailed in the morning

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<v Speaker 1>mists bearing down on them.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that which every sailor fears.

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<v Speaker 1>A ship of death, a ghost ship. Oh, I'm gone deck.

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<v Speaker 1>We can starm a bow herd. Report her, report, hard, report,

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<v Speaker 1>it is sir Ward, Miss Terdams. Did you see that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't understand it, Sir. She fell away and the

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<v Speaker 1>wind Sirs, oh, she were the wind, Hi, Sir. He

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<v Speaker 1>acts like a ghost ship ship without a crew. Yet

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<v Speaker 1>she ship shape and trimming up and looks run up

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<v Speaker 1>a danger horse. And we'll see if she'll answer. Hi. Iye, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>run of a danger o eyes, Sir, bade the salta

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<v Speaker 1>no answer from the American, Sir, I have been watching

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<v Speaker 1>it through the glass. There isn't a living soul on deck.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't like that. Hunt. Give order us to stand

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<v Speaker 1>by the board. I'm going to order aye aye, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>and by all hands to board. I bring her about,

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<v Speaker 1>mister quartermaster, ring her about, Hi, Sir. All our boats

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<v Speaker 1>seem to be in place. She can't be abandoned. I

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<v Speaker 1>will soon find out. We're well in all away about

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<v Speaker 1>on this turbot. Sigh. Come along, mister Adams. We'll go

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<v Speaker 1>aboard right with you, sir, all right, all away. She

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't look as if she'd been through any heavy seas. Huh.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at the name the Murray slast seem to

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<v Speaker 1>remember seeing her in New York. I was thinking the

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<v Speaker 1>same thing, sir. Here pass me that botocop and off

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<v Speaker 1>the trailer robe amidships. We can bore it a bugle, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>I've got it. Take your head for that rope. He's fast, sir.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you see anything?

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<v Speaker 1>No ship shape on the deck here. I'll give you

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<v Speaker 1>a hand.

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<v Speaker 2>Better be careful, sir. It could be plague.

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<v Speaker 1>No miss Adams. If it were plague, there would be

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<v Speaker 1>bodies on deck, not below. Together, Captain Boyce and his

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<v Speaker 1>first mate make their way below decks. Not a thing stirs,

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<v Speaker 1>not a sound save the creak of timbers and the

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<v Speaker 1>slap slap of water against the hull. Almost on tiptoe, silently,

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<v Speaker 1>as if in the very presence of an unseen death,

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<v Speaker 1>the two men searched the hold from keel to bridge,

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<v Speaker 1>from stem to stern. Nothing nothing but an empty earliness,

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<v Speaker 1>a ship trim as if she had been rigged in

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<v Speaker 1>all before, but a ghost ship, a ship without crewe

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<v Speaker 1>or living thing aboard. All the superstition of the seas

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<v Speaker 1>is in the minds of the captain and the mate.

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<v Speaker 1>As they climbed through the hatch, onto the deck and

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<v Speaker 1>down the alley way of the ship's galley. Good lord,

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<v Speaker 1>look there. They even left the cruise meal on the

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<v Speaker 1>galley stove half cooked. Something terrible must have happen cause

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<v Speaker 1>them to leave the ship in such a hurry. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but we don't know that they left their own free will.

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<v Speaker 1>No boats miss them, not anything he used to make

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<v Speaker 1>her rivet How could they leave except by except by exactly, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>except by what I tell you, Surry. I don't like it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's uncanny, isn't real, It can't be yet it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Go on, let's hurry, look into the chart room and

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<v Speaker 1>get off this ship as fast as we can. Shodrum

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<v Speaker 1>doors closed, it's not locked. Breakfast here too, and the

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<v Speaker 1>baby's high chair at the table, and the captain's chronometer

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<v Speaker 1>is still running. It's ghastly simming this silence, this trim

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<v Speaker 1>rig ship in perfect condition, without a soul, no signs

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<v Speaker 1>of anything. Let's get off, sir. Right, I'm not easily flighting,

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<v Speaker 1>but dash it all, sir. Here's something that isn't human,

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<v Speaker 1>if you know what I mean. Well, I don't want her,

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<v Speaker 1>but we must take her in tow. We've got a

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<v Speaker 1>note of everything, we can enter into a log book.

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<v Speaker 1>Boat's all in place, captain's chronometer's still running to watch us.

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<v Speaker 1>Lye on the skipper's table, breakfast with the crew ready

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<v Speaker 1>in the galley raide the porridge half eaten on the

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<v Speaker 1>saloon table. No preparation is made to abandon everything, trimanship shape.

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<v Speaker 2>Are not a soul of board?

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<v Speaker 1>Dead?

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<v Speaker 2>All alive?

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<v Speaker 1>Right? Well, come along, Adams, we'll get back aboard our

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<v Speaker 1>own ship, and we'll booth hey o better. Sixty two

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<v Speaker 1>years have passed and the mystery of the maure Celeste

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<v Speaker 1>remains a mystery. The United States authorities notified the consuls

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<v Speaker 1>in various countries to keep a sharp lookout for survivors,

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<v Speaker 1>but to this day nothing has been seen or heard

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<v Speaker 1>of captain, crew, the captain's wife, or baby in the

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<v Speaker 1>annals of the sea. It is one of the great

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<v Speaker 1>unsolved mysteries. Yet there is one explanation. It is based

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<v Speaker 1>on the knowledge that Captain Briggs of the Marie Celeste

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<v Speaker 1>was ill ill mentally, and his temporary mental aberration took

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<v Speaker 1>the form of swimming around his ship with all his

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<v Speaker 1>clothes on. It is the morning of November twenty fourth,

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<v Speaker 1>the morning of the last entry in the Mauri Celeste's

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<v Speaker 1>log book. The captain is in the chart room and

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<v Speaker 1>his wife Mary is on the bridge talking to the

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<v Speaker 1>first officer.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, mister Anderson, I'm agree the captain is going to

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<v Speaker 3>have one of his.

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<v Speaker 2>Spelled him will but makes you think so?

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<v Speaker 3>No, he's been muttering to himself all morning about swim around.

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<v Speaker 1>The ship with all his clothes on. I suppose, yes, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Want you to promise me something. Yes, if he insists

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<v Speaker 3>on swimming around the ship when.

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<v Speaker 1>You go with him, if you off me too, I will.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, Mary, very Mary, what are you here on the bridge.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going for a swim. Oh, it's a beautiful day.

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<v Speaker 4>Calm was a meal pond, and I.

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<v Speaker 1>Feel the need of it. Tell you what, so let's

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<v Speaker 1>make a contest out of it.

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<v Speaker 4>What are you talking about, Anderson?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh? I could do with a swim myself. And I thought,

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<v Speaker 1>let's have a race, you and me. We'll dive off

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<v Speaker 1>amidships and swim once a round. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a good idea, mister Emerson. A competitione Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>But I'm going to swim with all my clothes on.

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<v Speaker 1>I've got to keep.

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<v Speaker 4>Him practice, you know, to get ship wretched someday and

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<v Speaker 4>have to swim fully dressed. Can't do it unless you practice.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, of course I'm game. I wish you weren't a mary.

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<v Speaker 4>You leave that to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, by the.

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<v Speaker 1>Way, Chips has made a sort of a crib for

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<v Speaker 1>the baby. He called it the baby's quarterdeck. Rigged it

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<v Speaker 1>up after sir, so you wouldn't be worrying about the

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<v Speaker 1>baby crawling under the rail and falling overboard. Oh that

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<v Speaker 1>was nice.

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<v Speaker 3>And Chips, I'll go below and thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't belong or you'll miss the race. I'll be back

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<v Speaker 1>on deck in a moment. Chips took baby after a

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<v Speaker 1>few minutes ago. He's playing with him in the crib.

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<v Speaker 4>Come on, then, we'd better leave our watchers in the

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<v Speaker 4>chart room. And that reminds me I mustwhine by chromometer.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh here, skipper, take my watch with you too.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll go aft and see how Chips is getting along

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<v Speaker 1>with a laby.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, Henderson, be ready for that swim when I

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<v Speaker 4>come back.

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<v Speaker 2>Worries there, I'll be waiting.

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<v Speaker 3>He's still determined.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, I thought you went below.

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<v Speaker 3>I was standing behind the hedge.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, let's go after and see the baby's quarterdeck.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, I'm afraid I call it whatever you want to.

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<v Speaker 3>I have a feeling that they'll clangs of its own free.

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<v Speaker 1>Will now, Mary, don't worry. I'll look out to the

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<v Speaker 1>skipper when we get in the water. Besides, he's a

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<v Speaker 1>good swimmer.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh look at baby. That clever and good morning, Chips,

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<v Speaker 3>Good morning, ma'am.

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<v Speaker 5>What do you think of our baby's quarter deck?

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's very clever of each me.

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<v Speaker 5>I've got children to be out.

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<v Speaker 1>I know what the little blight is like.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, it's just like giving a rail in around

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<v Speaker 5>your own porch.

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<v Speaker 1>He can't pull that. Don't you think, Chips, that the

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<v Speaker 1>baby's quarterdeck ought to be lished down?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh no, sir, not unless the wind picks up a bit.

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<v Speaker 5>So it's a Siphe has been in your own yard,

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<v Speaker 5>says I.

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<v Speaker 1>But Chips was wrong. It wasn't as safe as being

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<v Speaker 1>in your own yard. And it was the so called

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<v Speaker 1>babies quarter deck that resulted in the mystery of the

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<v Speaker 1>Marie Celeste. Out of deference to people who may still

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<v Speaker 1>be living, character names in some of these unsolved mysteries

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<v Speaker 1>have been changed inasmuch as any solution must have necessity

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<v Speaker 1>be's supposition, liberties of time, place, and characters have been taken.

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<v Speaker 1>In just a moment, you will hear a solution to

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<v Speaker 1>the mystery of the Marie Celeste, Ladies and gentlemen, the

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<v Speaker 1>solution for which you have been waiting, and so Chips.

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<v Speaker 1>The carpenter places the baby in the crate like structure

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<v Speaker 1>he has made, while the mother looks on. He turns

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<v Speaker 1>to her as the captain walks down from the ChartHouse.

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<v Speaker 5>There he is, ma'am, all safe and signed. Can't fall

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<v Speaker 5>out and can't get out.

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<v Speaker 1>It was very good of you to think of it. Chip.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh is the skipper? Oh holy bear, mister Emerson, are

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<v Speaker 1>you ready already? Skipper?

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<v Speaker 4>You'll be the judge, Mary, although I know I'm going

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<v Speaker 4>to win, all right.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll be judge the first around the ship and up

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<v Speaker 3>the trailing rope onto the deck.

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<v Speaker 1>Win.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you give the word to go.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, both of you get up on the rail, ready,

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<v Speaker 1>said go?

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<v Speaker 5>No, the skipper, he's the way to a flying start

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<v Speaker 5>is he's.

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<v Speaker 1>A powerful swimmer. But that's the same. What the price

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<v Speaker 1>is the ship she held over the wind.

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<v Speaker 4>We're in for a blow.

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<v Speaker 1>The baby's crave it sliding. The ship's carpenter and the

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<v Speaker 1>baby's mother rush across the sanding deck in a vain

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<v Speaker 1>effort to save the baby. Again, the vessel heels, and

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<v Speaker 1>together they slide over the scuppers into the sea one

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<v Speaker 1>after the other. Every member of the crew leaps overboard

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<v Speaker 1>to the rescue. The freshening wind fills the sagging sails,

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<v Speaker 1>and the Marie lest fully rigged her ship's bell clanging

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<v Speaker 1>a sailor's dirge. Without a living soul aboard, gets on

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<v Speaker 1>their way and leaves the crew struggling in the water.