AP ENTERPRISE: Navy Sinkex raises pollution fear In 2005, the USS America aircraft carrier was towed out to sea on her final voyage. Hundreds of miles off the Atlantic coast, US Navy personnel then blasted the 40-year-old warship with missiles and bombs until it sank. By JASON DEAREN Associated Press
Sri Lanka won by 9 runs against Australia in the 12th and final league match in the Commonwealth Bank series at Melbourne securing their spot in the best of three final matches of the CB series. A crucial match in which Sri Lanka were desperate for a win in order to go through to the [...]
10:35 03 MAR 2012 (AGI) New Delhi – A new mystery surrounds the 2 San Marco sailors accused of being responsible for the death of 2 Indian fishermen. The Enrica Lexies voyage data recorder is reportedly missing some essential data on the basis of which to reconstruct the events that occurred during the time in [...]
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The Horizon Reliance cargo ship is seen at dock Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in Honolulu. A Canadian family was attempting their first voyage across the Pacific in a sailboat when rough seas damaged their boat hundreds of miles from land. The Reliance came to their aid and plucked the family from the rough seas. (Marco [...]
When Timothy Spall was diagnosed with leukaemia, his life was thrown off course. Sarah Freeman talks to his wife Shane about their voyage back. When Timothy Spall and his wife Shane announced they were going to circumnavigate the British Isles in a Dutch barge, it seemed to many to be madness. Their previous sailing experience [...]
John Sutter thrust his hand into the belly of a fabricated, giant Amazon catfish and pulled out examples of the creatures diet. You might find an old tennis shoe, or a chicken head, Sutter said. What else can we find — a fish head, monkey skull — this guys eaten quite a bit.
On a dreary late January morning, I join a small group of guardedly optimistic souls to scan the creeks of West Marin’s San Geronimo Valley to glimpse one of the Bay Area’s rarest denizens, the critically endangered coho salmon. With luck, we’d see a few survivors of the batch born here three years ago, returning [...]
Tonya Bonitatibus launched a 200-mile upstream voyage Thursday in hopes of bringing new attention to one of Georgias most famous waterways. Well be interviewing lots of interesting people and showing everyone the different users of the river, said the Savannah riverkeeper, whose adventure which could last 15 days or more began Thursday night at Tybee [...]
Even in the age of satellite imagery, commercial flight, modern medicine, and plenty of other perks unavailable to the explorers of earlier ages, there are still some crannies on Earth left unexplored. But thats because exploring them is an extreme endeavor. The race to get to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific [...]