American media companies thought that rolling out their cable channels across the world would be money for old rope.

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You can still see the old rope basket that lifted the supplies.

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"One traditional method involves cutting large bundles at low tide and roughly tying them together with net or old rope, anchored on rocks, " Mr Walsh says.

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The weather was more temperate last year, when she and her husband Roberto escaped the ship carrying their 10-month-old son Daniel down a rope ladder.

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Her scariest paddling experience remains being unable to get out of the water having capsized as a 12-year-old, "with my dad on the bank holding a rope".

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It heard Miss Hill had told parents their seven-year-old daughter had been tied to a fence and hit with a skipping rope by other children.

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He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.

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Mr. MEYERS: Well, I suppose the simple power of the theme and the idea that a man who is weak and poor and old, and has gone through tremendous physical hardships, including having his hands sort of torn up by the rope and the struggle, does in fact endure, and prevail, even though he's lost what he's fought for, because the sharks have eaten the marlin.

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