1.   An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic.

2.   But few, very few, can muster for the Russian sailors and their families the empathy Joyce Smarz of Palm Beach Gardens possesses.

3.   Hopes that Russian sailors might be saved from a sunken submarine faded last week.

4.   On another occasion, he told friends that he had managed to rescue several Russian sailors.

5.   Russia has filed a complaint with the State Department claiming U.S. immigration officials routinely mistreat Russian sailors at ports in Washington state.

6.   The body of a Russian sailor was reported to be just inside.

7.   The Russian sailors realized they faced death, but eight of them entered the radiation chamber and quickly rigged a cooling system.

8.   The tragedy of the Russian sailors trapped beneath the bottom of the sea was a horrifying and continually unfolding drama.

9.   There is also the grim task of recovering the bodies of the remaining Russian sailors inside its dark and flooded compartments.