So each hour's time difference between the ship and the starting point marks a ship's progress of fifteen degrees of longitude to the east or west.
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The captain ordered passengers and crew to abandon ship about an hour later.
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At this point, IT managers say, the return on investment is rapidly diminishing: Even a sizable bonus can't compete with the permanent pay raise a year-2000 worker can get by jumping ship at this late hour.
They assemble in groups of three to five to plant crops, ship goods and raise edifices, compressing into a cheerful hour or two the wheeling and dealing that consumed the careers of 16th-century colonists in the Caribbean.
The ship drifted into U.S. waters over the weekend, traveling about a mile per hour and making its way toward the rich fishing waters of the Gulf of Alaska, Mosley said.