Palms, the bright beach, the dark ocean.

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Riding the dark ocean in the pitch of night before all hell breaks loose, sending up a cloud of heavy black rain and fire, throwing heavy equipment into the icy water, casting men to their deaths at the bottom of the sea.

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The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said the airliner and the C-17 were put on a collision course in the dark over the Atlantic Ocean about 88 miles off New York after controllers mistakenly instructed the planes to converge in the same area.

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"You pass a lot of agonizing hours watching somebody try to do something at the end of a cable a mile long -- down in the deep, dark ocean, " he says.

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The storm boiled above the Indian ocean, a dark, bristling wall of cloud, blocking our passage west.

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Aerial photographs from the descent show drainage channels apparently flowing off land into what seems to be a dark ocean, possibly composed of some tarry substance.

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In the absence of light, life in dark waters can also depend on organic substances dead or alive reaching the depths of the ocean.

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