During that October practice run, the Oracle team's upturned boat ended up drifting from the San Francisco Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge and four miles into the open Pacific Ocean before the team could get it under control.

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But the fire knocked out the ship's propulsion system and left the vessel slowly drifting in the Gulf until a second tug boat arrived Tuesday.

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The Centre then recruited the crew and put it and the boat at the disposal of the international community to deploy the drifting robots.

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