Sail training in Dublin Bay

As the school mid-term break nears an end and the weather normally become less reliable for water activities, we see one of the final training days in the waters off Dun Laoire in Dublin Bay. Today it is a...

Elderly Couple Missing from Carnival Cruise Ship

An elderly couple is missing from a Carnival Cruise ship that sails out of California and are "presumed to have gone overboard." "A statement released overnight by Carnival says the 90-year-old man and his...

China prepping to send warships after pirates

" BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Two Chinese destroyers and a supply ship will set sail for the Gulf of Aden on Friday to protect Chinese merchant ships from an increasing number of pirate attacks in the waters off the...

Viking War Ship 'The Sea Stallion' home in Denmark !

Text:  Lars Normann from "The Sea Stallion"- site of "Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark" " The Sea Stallion from Glendalough is approaching the culmination of the biggest experimental project in the...

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...

The world’s biggest Viking ship reconstruction turns home. The 2nd half of ...

VIKING SHIP LEAVES DUBLIN TOMORROW MORNINGThe 61 members of the crew on the 30-metre long “Sea Stallion from Glendalough” are sure to get soaking wet already in the middle of Dublin Harbour tomorrow morning. ...

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...

S/V The Goonies - Family of Six plan to Circumnavigate the World.

Thats right its official we plan on circumnavigating the world by sailboat . Who we are..... Looking through our posts we realized that they don't contain much about who we are, so I'll try to describe us...

Norwegian Whaling Expertise

(Opinion piece from the Nippon Keizai Shinbun, 4 Feb 2008. Translated by Paul Bartels)  Japan's scientific whaling vessels continue to encounter obstruction, while western environmental groups strengthen...

Tall Ships Visit Dublin

Majestic tall ships, lively street theatre, uplifting music and a colourful outdoor market - the Docklands Maritime Festival had something for everybody this June Bank Holiday weekend and we were there to...

U.S. Navy -- 34 sailors killed & 171 sailors injured

No event can be classified as "ancient history" while there are people ancient enough to remember it happening.

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