Alaska Blob Could Be Alive: Floating Arctic Goo

A giant blob of oily biological material is making its way through Alaskan waters, and this floating arctic goo may in fact be alive. It is floating in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea in the Bering Strait. ""It's...

Mission to break up island of trash in the Pacific Ocean

There is an island of trash floating in the North Pacific Ocean that is made up entirely of six million tonnes discarded plastic. It can't break down and it's twice the size of Texas.  There is a mission set to...

QE2 runs aground on final voyage

The Queen Elizabeth II oceanliner from the UK is about to be put into retirement. But on its last voyage it ran into some trouble off the coast of Southhampton, becoming trapped on a sandbank. The boat is set to become a floating hotel in Dubai."It was hardly the most regal...

Floating turbines offers a new approach to offshore wind power

Floating wind turbines; cheaper and simpler than turbines fixed to the sea floor. Offshore windfarms take advantage of stronger and more consistent winds, and aren't an eyesore to land-dwelling humans."Floating in the Mediterranean Sea 12 miles off the coast of southern Italy...

Giant Island of Trash

http://www.popsci.com/article/2007-10/giant-island-trash By Gregory Mone Posted 10.31.2007 at 3:55 pm A heap of trash that's twice the size of Texas is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. The...

Rescued Scuba Divers Recount Ordeal of Floating Lost Overnight in Shark-Infes...

These stranded scuba divers, bobbing in shark-infested waters,  had seen "Open Water." The movie recounted the tragic story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a dive boat in 1988 and were...

Cambodia's Kompong Luong (Floating Village)

"It is considered as Asia's version of Venice but instead of gondolas, Kompong is known to their wide range of quality pottery wares. You can buy it there along with other items such as vegetables and handicraft...

A Life in the Day: Ozzy Osbourne

"One of my biggest luxuries is that I don’t have to set an alarm. I wake up when my eyes open, usually 9 or 9.30. I couldn’t handle an alarm clock going off in my ear. It’d do my f***ing head in. I try and...

QUAY 16 - NEW FLOATING RESTAURANT ON THE LIFFEY

"Floating restaurant and bar opens in Dublin Docklands The Cill Airne, Dublin Dockland's very first floating bar and restaurant, is now open for business, just in time for the busy Christmas period. The historic...

IBM Blue Gene Times Three – On The Road To “Petaflop” :: Oblate Spheroid

"Yesterday, IBM announced that its experimental high-speed computer located at the Livermore Labs in northern California just passed by the world’s fastest calculation processing mark. IBM was able to clobber...

Floating Dutch prison for illegal aliens

With building lots hard to come by, and cities reluctant to offer space for detention centres, the Dutch Justice Ministry has taken to the water to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation. Stephanie van den Berg...

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...

Sunken freighter off Ibiza leaking oil

"Ibiza, Spain - More than six weeks after a freighter went down off the coast of the Spanish tourist island of Ibiza, the wreck is again leaking oil, reports said Sunday. A 300-metre-long oil slick washed ashore...

Make the ‘Floating Pool’ Permanent

"BROOKLYN WATERFRONT — This past Tuesday morning I had a series of appointments in the Brooklyn Heights area, nothing, alas, having to do with the hunt for breathtaking news. They were all routine medical meetings. Despite crisp scheduling, I found myself with about 30...

Canadian researchers identify remains of young Titanic victim

"OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian researchers on Wednesday said they positively identified the remains of a young child who died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912. (Advertisement) The remains belong to a 19-month-old...

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