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Teenage Girl Found at Sea: Rescue Plane Saves 16 y.o. Solo Sailor
The 16 year-old girl, Abby Sunderland who wanted to sail around the world by herself had some difficulty in the past two days and sent out two beacons for help. She has been found by a search plane and is in good...
created by UNCENSORED NEWS | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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3609 views | 1 recommendation | 8 comments
Dutch bid to thwart young sailor (13 years old)
" Social workers in the Netherlands have taken legal action to try to stop a 13-year-old girl from sailing around the world on her own. They want Laura Dekker to be made a ward of court, so that her parents, who...Navy releases name of sailor killed aboard Norfolk-based aircraft carrier
My ex-husband was on the Guadalcanal before they retired it. He was in Derest Storm back in 1992. He alos was a flight deck director for some years. I would hear of the stories of how the long days when they would... In the fog over climate change
"Every sailor knows that the relationship between weather and the world’s oceans is complex. Oceans modify weather which modifies oceans. But sailors are often fixated on what weather does to the surface of the...
created by ValiantSkipper | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
351 views | 19 recommendations | 4 comments
351 views | 19 recommendations | 4 comments
3 Sailors from New Orleans Head for Beijing Olympics
" John Dane III has spent years in the shipbuilding industry, where he has carved out a niche as a maker of top-of-the line sailing vessels. Later this month, he is expected to step aboard one in a sports... U.S. sub leaked radioactive water, possibly for months
"Water with trace amounts of radioactivity may have leaked for months from a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine as it traveled around the Pacific to ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii, Navy officials told CNN on...
created by Albert Milliron | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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513 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
69 year old sailor first to cross Pacific in wave-powered boat
In 1962 he was the first person to sail across the Pacific by himself. He was 23. Now, at 69, Kenichi Horie just sailed across the Pacific in wave powerd boat all by himself. He is the first... US teen sailor takes on the world
Pretty ambitious stuff for a 16 year old, good luck to him." US teen sailor takes on the world ...Polar world sailor arrives home
After being forced to twice abandon his trip, a British father of two has become teh first solo yachtsman to enter the Russian Arctic. Many of the delays were due to beaurocratic red tape in getting clearance...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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192 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Every soldier`s loss tragic: US
"Baghdad (ANTARA News) - The loss of every American soldier is tragic and "keenly felt" by families and military commanders, US military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith said Monday, as the death toll in Iraq hit 4,000."No casualty is more or less significant than... POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
"POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
Credit:Press-TV
Image from Iranian video depicting the Jan. 7 encounter with U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz.
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - Despite the official and media... 26 Indonesian sailors feared dead: officials
"Twenty six Indonesian sailors are feared dead after their Panamanian freighter hit rough seas off Taiwan's north coast, officials said late Wednesday. Television images showed coast guards plucking one surviving sailor from the sea, but transport ministry official Ho...Plastic bottle saves Japanese sailor
"Tsuyoshi Kurosawa, a 28-year-old crewman on the 2,997-ton tanker Sakura Maru, was lost at sea for 10 hours after he fell in the sea late Tuesday while relieving himself over the side of the vessel. "As an empty plastic bottle was floating by, he used it as buoyancy until he... RI govt yet to receive report on drowned Indonesian sailor in Israel
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry has so
far not received any report about the drowning of an Indonesian sailor
in Israel, a spokesman said.
"I have yet to receive any report, and we... DNA fails to reveal identity of Christmas Island soldier
A bid to identify the remains of an unknown sailor, almost certainly from the HMAS Sydney II, with DNA testing of samples provided by the relatives of three short-listed sailors has been unsuccessful in finding a match.NowPublic on Facebook
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