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"We weren't tourists," Vasquez later wrote in her journal, recovered by a passing freighter. "We were scientists. That made the hubris cut deeper."

The vessel was the MV Pacific Hope , a 600-foot Liberian-flagged container ship en route from Callao to Sydney. A deck officer on night watch had noticed a periodic flash on the radar—too regular for a wave, too small for a ship. He had diverted 14 miles off course to investigate. stranded on santa astarta