By: Patrick Radden Keefe   |   The New Yorker   |   https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/24/the-snakehead
'The moon was full, and about a hundred yards offshore the officers saw a hundred-and-fifty-foot tramp steamer that had run aground. The ship’s deck was crowded with people, and, as the officers watched, men and women jumped over the side, falling twenty feet into the surging waves below.'