Today begins a seven-day series on the shipwreck of the Selendang Ayu, a 738-foot Malaysian-flagged bulk cargo ship loaded with soybeans and bound for China through the Bering Sea. It all happened a year ago. Some of the details are familiar, but this is the first close-up account of what happened, assembled from public records, interviews, and the voices of the men who were there. Twenty-foot waves and 45 mph winds battered everything in their path. A Bering Sea storm. Normal December weather in the busy shipping lanes between North America and Asia. It didn't seem like a crisis. Not...