Author Tim Maltin said the authorities spent time assessing the damage instead of sending out a signal asking for help from nearby ships.

作者蒂姆·马尔蒂说当时船方花大量的时间评估船体的损伤而没有发送求救信号请求附近船舰进行救援。

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Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire.

加州消防局在燃尽的森林一角发现一具死体，并且估计此后果是由森林火灾造成的。

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Authorities are still assessing the damage after a landslide over this morning in San Francisco's North Beach district.

相关部门仍在调查今早发生在旧金山北部海岸地区发生的山体滑坡所造成的影响。

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Parishioners are assessing the damage to a church in Cornwall which was hit by lightning.

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When are we going to recognize that no matter how strong we are, others (our peers, we are after all social animals) can do damage and there most certainly is a formula for assessing that damages and forcing people to pay.

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Paul Allen from the county's highways department said officials were assessing the damage caused to the county's A and B roads but an "ever-decreasing highways maintenance budget" made prioritising roads "extremely difficult".

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