oceantreasures.org - 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.1634 – Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies.1776 – Rhode Island declares independence from England.1834 – Charles Darwin’s expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean.1839 – The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio.1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.1912 – Italian [...]
Archive for 05/04/2011
Hydro International - A team of American roboticists from the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue wrapped up five days of underwater search and rescue operations in northern Japan. During five days of work in two of the most badly damaged cities in northern Japan, they deployed three underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles to check for [...]
Rt – A World War II KV-1 battle tank has been found resting on the bed of the Neva River near the so-called “Nevsky Pyatachok” – the scene of one of the most critical and costly campaigns during the Siege of Leningrad from September 1941 until May 1943. According to the commander of the special [...]
Daniel Carson – News Herald Jad Graves said he had always heard the stories about some of the older Navy saturation divers and their exploits hundreds of feet beneath the sea. Graves was one of one six Naval Experimental Diving Unit divers that emerged from the Navy’s new Saturation Fly-Away Diving System (SAT FADS) Friday [...]
By David Jolly – Reef sharks, as I noted in an article on Monday about a new study, are worth more in the water than when sold for their fins and meat, at least in some cases. In Palau, the Maldives, the Bahamas and some other scuba-diving destinations, tourism operators have gotten across the message [...]
The Navy SEAL Team 6 Weapons and Gadgets That Brought Down Osama bin Laden
Posted: 05/04/2011 in all marine newsFrom ABC News – As Navy SEAL Team 6 closed in on its prey – Osama bin Laden — it likely entered the battle armed with the best weapons and technology available to soldiers anywhere in the world, a military expert and former Navy SEAL fighter told ABC News. “The dogs of war were finally [...]
