Pascal Kainic – I lost my dear father a few days ago… He was 84 years old and I can say he had a full life of joy, as well as adversity. It is my first big loss, the loss of a beloved one, and I can see how painfull it is now… He was [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Andrew Marshall - The annual monsoon transforms Bali. Rain sweeps across slumbering volcanoes. Moss thickens on ancient temple walls. Rivers swell and flush their trash and frothing human waste into the sea off Kuta Beach, the island’s most famous tourist attraction, where bacteria bloom and the water turns muddy with dead plankton. “It happens every [...]
Portsmouth.co.uk - Historic yacht Lively Lady is back in the water after being moored for almost three years. A crew of young adventurers who want to fund a trip around the globe are working tirelessly to make Sir Alec Rose’s famous vessel seaworthy again. On Saturday they led a procession of around 25 topper sailboats [...]
Alan Cochrane – Battered and bruised by the harsh weather of the Northumberland Strait, the 140-year-old lighthouse at Cape Jourimain should be a symbol of New Brunswick, but lighthouse researcher Kelly-Ann Loughery says it is more a symbol of neglect. “There are only nine octagonal-shaped wooden lighthouse towers left in New Brunswick and that’s one [...]
oceantreasures.org – 1621 – Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England.1722 – Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.1762 – British take Grenada, West Indies, from French.1936 – Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die.1940 – In the North Sea, the British submarine HMS Unity (N 66) fired two torpedoes at the [...]
Mike Corder – Dutch marines killed two pirates and captured 16 others during an operation to free a hijacked Iranian fishing boat off the coast of Somalia, the DefenseMinistry said Monday. The deadly firefight marked the first time Dutch forces have killed suspected pirates while patrolling the Gulf of Aden as part of an international [...]
RT – The operator of Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., has started to release 11,500 tons of water containing radioactive materials into the Pacific Ocean, Kyodo news agency reports. The company says it is a necessary move to free space for all the contaminated water that is still leaking from the damaged [...]
Tim Hepher - France has discovered what appears to be part of an Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago killing all 228 people on board, accident investigators said on Sunday. A salvage vessel equipped with unmanned submarines located pieces of an aircraft in the past 24 hours and French [...]
China Post – The radiation-contaminated seawater from the earthquake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plants won’t reach Taiwan for at least 250 days. Therefore, there is no need for people in Taiwan to panic over the possible radiation, ocean environment experts said yesterday. Professor Hu Chien-hua at the Department of Marine Environmental Informatics of the National Taiwan [...]
oceantreasures.org - 1581 – Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world and becomes knight.1655 – Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates.1776 – Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke, first American capture of British armed vessel.1832 – Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro.1854 – Sailors and Marines from [...]
