Gordon Cook is a two-time Canadian Olympic sailor. He graduated from Queen's University where he met his 2008 Olympic partner Ben Remocker. Together they were the first Canadians to sail in the 49er class at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2009, Cook partnered with Hunter Lowden to campaign for the 2012 Olympics. Although they did not qualify for the first round in 2011, they did qualify for the 2012 Olympics in Croatia, making Cook the only sailor to represent Canada twice in the 49er class. At the 2012 Olympics, Cook and Lowden came third in the first race but did not qualify for the medal race.

1. We Are Not Afraid To
Die ……
Rakshnna Nandhakumar
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2. AUTHORS
- Gordon Cook
Alan East
• Gordon Cook (born December 3, 1978, in Toronto)
is a two-time Canadian Olympic sailor. He sails for
the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. He is the son of
computer scientist Stephen Cook.[1]
• Cook is a graduate of the Engineering Physics
program at Queen's University. At Queen's
University, he also met his 2008 Olympic team
partner Ben Remocker, where they were members
of the university sailing team. Cook and Remocker
became the first Canadians to sail a 49er in an
Olympic Regatta at the 2008 Beijing Olympics,
where they finished 14th.
• In 2009 Cook partnered up with West Vancouver
sailor Hunter Lowden and the two campaigned
together for the 2012 Olympic games. While Cook
and Lowden did not make the first round of
qualifications at the 2011 ISAF worlds in December
2011 they did qualify at the 2012 49er worlds in
Croatia making Cook the only person ever to
represent Canada twice in the 49er Class at the
Olympic Games. Cook and Lowden came third in
the first race of the 49er class in the 2012 Olympic
games,but did not qualify for the medal race.
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3. INTRODUCTION
Gordon Cook (born December 3, 1978, in Toronto) is a two-time Canadian
Olympic sailor. He sails for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. He is the son of
computer scientist Stephen Cook.[1]
Cook is a graduate of the Engineering Physics program at Queen's University. At
Queen's University, he also met his 2008 Olympic team partner Ben Remocker,
where they were members of the university sailing team. Cook and Remocker
became the first Canadians to sail a 49er in an Olympic Regatta at the 2008
Beijing Olympics, where they finished 14th.
In 2009 Cook partnered up with West Vancouver sailor Hunter Lowden and the
two campaigned together for the 2012 Olympic games. While Cook and Lowden
did not make the first round of qualifications at the 2011 ISAF worlds in December
2011 they did qualify at the 2012 49er worlds in Croatia making Cook the only
person ever to represent Canada twice in the 49er Class at the Olympic Games.
Cook and Lowden came third in the first race of the 49er class in the 2012
Olympic games,[2] but did not qualify for the medal race.
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The whole family started sailing from Plymouth, England on July 1976. The initial phase of the three-year-long
journey was from Africa to Cape Town. It was pleasant . While heading east , along with two newly hired crewmen,
strong waves hit them and their survival became a question. The story tells us about how they fought each day and
survival till the end.

5. Ship Terminology/ Nautical Jargon
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6. EXPLAINATION
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WORDS TO REMEMBER
• Voyage – a long journey by sea or space
• Leisure – free time
• Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
• Honing – sharpen, improving
• Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
• Honing our seafaring skills –improving the skills required to travel by sea
• Wooden-hulled – a watertight body of a ship
• Mast – a tall upright structure on a boat or ship
• Gales – A very strong wind
• Atrocious -bad; of a very poor quality Gigantic – huge; of a big size
• Jib – a triangular staysail set forward the mast in a ship
• Knots – a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds
• Enormous – a very large size Lashed – to hit with a lot of force
• Mooring – the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored
• Loop – a shape produced that bends round and crosses
• bent Stern – the back part of a ship or a boat Donned – put on, wore
• Oilskins – heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with oil

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• Ominous silence – unpleasant or threatening silence
• Aft – near the stern of the ship
• Frightful – very unpleasant or shocking
• Crest – reach the top of a wave
• Impending – about to happen
• Capsizing – be overturned in the water
• Hurled – throw with a great force
• Taut – stretched or pulled tightly
• Boom – pole that controls the angle and shape of the sail
• Scrambled – climb claw one’s way
• Hatch – door
• Timbers – wood board used in building of a ship
• Starboard – side of a ship which is on the right side when one is facing forward
• Bulged – swell Sloshed – move through liquid with a splashing sound.
• Bashed – strike hard; hit
• reflected: turned aside
• Canvas – a strong unbleached cloth
• Debris – rubbish
• Wrenched – pull suddenly, removed
• Forestay – a rope to support ship’s foremast
• Dinghies – a small boat for recreation with mast or sail

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• Smashed – badly broken
• Keel – steel structure along the base of the ship
• Pinpricks – a prick caused by a pin Pinpricks in the vast
• ocean – the two small islands in the vast ocean were very tiny like the prick caused by a pin
• Abated – something unpleasant to become less intense
• Auxiliary engine – small secondary engine used to board ships to operate a windlass in the ship
• Rigging – the ropes and wires supporting the structure of the ship
• Hull – the framework of the vessel
• Respite – a short period of rest
• Deteriorate – get worse
• Heave to – to raise or lift with effort
• Paraffin – colorless flammable oil liquid
• Sextant – an instrument with graduated arc of 60 degrees for taking altitudes and navigation
• Caricatures – picture of a person; cartoon
• Tousled head – disarranged hair of the narrator’s son, Jonathan
• Bunk – bed
• Dozed off – went off to sleep
• Bleak – an area of land lacking vegetation,
• Stark – sharply defined
• Anchored- moor a ship to the sea some distance from the shore
• Ashore – on the shore of the land
• Optimistic – hopeful and confident

10. CONCLUSION
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To sum up, we are not afraid to die if we can all be together summary, we can say the collective power
of unity and the never-failing confidence of the sailors made it possible for them to survive and come
out from the jaws of death…….

11. THANK YOU
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