"You potentially have a bomb above your head and then you have sea landings and landings at night with power cables so it's not a straightforward thing, " he said.

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"When the Wessex changed to the Sea King we did a lot of training, much of it at night with night vision goggles, " David said.

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To honor his memory, Morristown West High School students donned Superman shirts and costumes at Friday night's football game, filling the student section with a sea of blue.

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Like other Wall Street CEOs, Cayne sat by as Bear Stearns plowed ahead at full speed with no radar in the middle of the night in a sea dotted with icebergs.

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This is a movie of gleaming surfaces -- veteran DP Roger Deakins turns a glass skyscraper at night into a funhouse hall of mirrors, and a floating Macau casino is like an oasis in the black sea.

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