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In a startup, every single person on your team is a critical component, and making the wrong hire can literally sink your ship, especially when that person is building your product.
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The National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Coast Guard held hearings in February on what caused the ship sink.
WSJ: Lawsuit filed against NY owner of ship that sank
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In other words, if storms caused by careerism in the curia threatened to sink the papal ship, it was partly because Benedict himself had been too zealous in stilling the nurturing waters of theological debate.
ECONOMIST: Benedict's departure
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At midnight, only a handful of people on the ship knew that it would sink, but that did not mean that the ship was not sinking.
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But the Democrat arguments and last-minute demonstrations couldn't sink the tight Republican ship.
CNN: Senate poised to pass Republican budget
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Lucia's tourism minister called it a miracle, and the island's maritime affairs unit is investigating exactly what caused the ship to sink.
NPR: US Tourists Survive Ship Sinking Near St. Lucia
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With as much food, water and navigational equipment as could be snatched up in the brief time it took for the ship to sink, the crew of 20 abandoned the Essex in three light open boats.
ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea
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That's very different from conventional submarines, which basically dive by changing the ballast of the ship to make it sink.
CNN: Winged luxury submarines 'fly' underwater
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The Titanic might have grabbed headlines as the world's most glamorous luxury liner, immortalized on the Silver Screen by Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet's love story in the Oscar-winning 1997 eponymous film, but there was another ship that was almost twice the weight, which did not sink, and she is still afloat, as a hotel.
BBC: A ghostly visit on the RMS Queen Mary hotel
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Thirty-two Burmese nationals have been rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan navy after the wooden vessel began to sink en route to Australia.
BBC: Burmese rescued off Sri Lanka 'threw dead into sea'
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Once a storm caused two ships to sink in the same area and all on board were lost at sea, save one from each ship, who survived only because they swam to a nearby island.
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