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Africa North |
Mauritania seeks help to stop migrants |
2006-03-17 |
![]() Traffic on the established migration route between Mauritania and Spain's Canary Islands has grown in recent weeks, with scores of young Africans leaving the Mauritanian coast every night in rickety fishing boats, hoping to find work in Spain. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 I always thought the monsters were on the map 'cos it was better for the captain to tell his financiers: "Your ship got eaten by a Monster! It was This Big! I'm lucky to be Alive!" than to say: "I sailed your ship onto some rocks." |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-03-17 12:03 |
#1 Distribute navigation charts with the edge not far offshore, and labeled 'here there be monsters.' Some can probably be found in Spain's archives. Ironic that those charts were only disproved with the aid of navigation techniques provided by Arabs. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2006-03-17 11:53 |