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H ayato took out a book about pirates he was reading. “I am glad we didn’t live back then. Can you imagine how long it would take to cross the Pacific Ocean in one of these?” he said, pointing to an old wooden sailboat. Flipping through the pages he continued, “Here’s something I really don’t understand. How can a boat built to float on the water, sink?” He pointed to a picture of a shipwreck on the bot- tom of the ocean floor. “I know the whole story about the Titanic hitting an iceberg and all, but if it floated once, why would it sink?”

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