Marine News, Shipping, Training
The International Maritime Pilots’ Association (IMPA), International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Shipping Federation (ISF) have come out with a new brochure to ensure that ladders used for pilot transfers are always rigged correctly. This guidelines are useful to shipping companies and seafarers.
Click here to view online version. Here is a video clip on pilot ladders.
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Here is hassle free underwater scooter Aqua Star. The interesting features of Aqua Star are:
Here is a video clip of Aqua Star and here also.
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A week long drama of finding, misplacing, relocating and detonation of World War II German bomb by The Royal Navy has come to an end. Here are the events.
April 21:
A 500 kg German bomb of Second World War,was found when a contractor working on sea defences off the Felixstowe coast. The bomb is believed to be mostly of TNT dynamite mixed with about 30 % aluminium powder to make it lethal and is one of the largest ever washed up on British coastline. The bomb was powerful enough to flatten a large area of the seafront and cause collateral damage up to about half-a-mile inland. More than 1,000 residents were temporarily evacuated from their seaside homes.
April 22:
A team of Royal Navy bomb disposal squad towed the bomb out to sea to safely detonate it. A sea exclusion zone was then set around the bomb to protect local shipping. The Navy team had planned to carry out a controlled explosion of the bomb, but strong tidal currents made it impossible for divers to attach an explosive charge. In the process due to bad weather and strong currents the bomb was temporarily misplaced in the sea through mechanical and technical mishaps.
April 23:
The ten men diving team carried out 14 dives using sonar and GPS but due to bad weather the bomb could not be traced. The bomb was about two miles offshore in 10 to 12 metres of depth in water. The divers were on a dangerous mission to locate the bomb in absolutely nil visibility and were searching for the bomb with just their hands and fingertips.
April 25:
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), Remus with side scan sonar was deployed to locate the bomb and search efforts were doubled.
April 29:
Remus was deployed twice daily for the last five days to conduct a meticulous and comprehensive search of the sea-bed and has covered 14 nautical miles within the 2km x 1km search area during optimum tidal windows. The bomb was located and was successfully detonated. Detonation occurred at 1940 after an earlier misfire at 1915. Hundreds of people braved strong winds and heavy rain to witness the event.
Video clip is here at news.bbc. Finally Royal Navy has succeeded in their mission.
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Here is the unimaginable rescue story of scuba divers off Taiwan coast. Tips for survival at sea for 48 hours are given at the end of this real life story.
April 26, Saturday,1030 hours:
What went wrong ? and Why they could not be traced ?
April 27, Sunday, around midnight:
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On receiving a call from the cruise ship Explorer of The Sea on April 26, US Coast Guard successfully medevaced 83 year-old female passenger suffering from internal bleeding. The medevac took place 245 miles east of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and a C-130 Hercules airplane from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., carried out the task.
Read on for more details and to view a video clip of medevac.
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An interactive International Marine Insurance Seminar by Lloyd’s Maritime Academy is going to start from April 28. The seminar would go on for three days at Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Training Suite, London. This year the seminar has been extended to include Norwegian, US and German law.
Seminar highlights are:
Day 1
Day 2
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Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog helps to reveal the hidden treasure of marine bloggers as a weekend surprise. Listing is done alphabetically. I could not cover all the bloggers to keep the list short. They may find out from here.
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Image Credit:Jim Burkett, Earthrace
Earthrace skipper, Pete Bethune is now ready to set a new world record for a powerboat to circle the globe. The 78 foot Earthrace uses 100% sustainable biodiesel fuel for propulsion with a net zero carbon footprint. The voyage is ready to commence on April 27 from Sagunto, Spain, and is expected to complete in less than 65 days. The present record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe is 74 days, 23 hours and 53 minutes set by UK boat ‘Cable & Wireless Adventurer’ in 1998.
Here is the race route.
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Boat Asia 2008 is now going on at the newly opened Marina at Keppel Bay , Singapore from 24 to 27 April 2008. Boat Asia 2008, is branded as a leading boat and luxury waterfront lifestyle event and during the last year Boat Asia 2007, more than 130 exhibiting companies from 18 countries exhibited 33 boats on water and 13 were displayed on land. Marina at Keppel bay is just a few minutes drive from Singapore’s central business district.
The following products and services are on display:
Click here for more details.
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Fish Barcode of Life Initiative (FISH-BOL), is a global effort to create a valuable electronic database of all fish species containing DNA barcodes, images, and geospatial coordinates of examined specimens. The interesting features of FISH-BOL are:
Here is the progress so far on Barcoding. Click the image below for the updated data.
Here are ten reasons to understand the necessity of Barcoding Life.
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As a step towards strengthening bilateral relations, India and Sri Lanka are planning to share electricity through undersea power cables.
The interesting features of the project are:
Here is the map showing the proposed power link
Read more from timesofindia
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The third edition of Indo-UK joint Naval Exercise ‘Konkan-2008′ is currently going on in the Arabian Sea. The exercise has commenced on April 21 and is expected to conclude on May 02, 2008. For Royal Navy this is part of UK’s Orion 08 Deployment.
The ships from Indian Navy are under the tactical command of the Flag Officer Commander Western Fleet, Rear Admiral Anil Chopra. The ships participating in the exercise are:
The ships from Royal Navy are commanded by Commodore Tom Cunningham RN, Commander Carrier Strike Group. The ships participating in the exercise are:
Embedded units during ‘Konkan-2008′ are USS Cole and French Stealth Ship FS Surcouf.
The exercise would be covering
A joint press conference by the two navies is expected at 1030 hrs on April 23 on board INS Mysore in Goa. Royal Navy Task Force units would also visit Goa later this month. During the harbor phase, both the Navies are to participate in lectures on professional and contemporary maritime issues. Also both the Navies would participate in sports and cultural activities at Goa.
Update: May 04
Why there was no media coverage of the exercise ? Indian Express reports that USS Cole’s observer role in the exercise was not communicated to the Indian Government by the Indian Navy in time. Read more from Indian Express.
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Today, April 22 of the year is the Earth Day. The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is an event to create an awareness to develop a safer, healthier and cleaner world for all of us. On this day let us not forget that we have to handover this Planet Earth to our younger generations in the same way (if not better), we received from our older generations. Last month global participation was there for Earth Hour.
Here is Google way of celebrating Earth Day
This Earth Day, use Google Checkout to donate to an environmental non-profit organization on behalf of your friends and family and watch your generosity spread.
Interesting video clips on Earth Day are here and here.
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H2O Audio is providing variety of iPod accessories for use in water sports. You can swim, paddle, kite, surf with your iPod.
Here are the products:
H3 waterproof head phones
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PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) is set to unveil the massive nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. The airing will be in two hour blocks beginning April 27 through May 1, 2008. The 10-hour series CARRIER was filmed aboard the USS Nimitz during the aircraft carrier’s six-month deployment to the Gulf in support of the Iraq War. The project itself took over three years to complete as 17 filmmakers shot 1,600 hours of film as the ship departed Coronado, California on May 7, 2005 and docked at various ports of call like Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, Guam, Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain and Perth, Australia before returning to Coronado November 8, 2005.
The interesting features of CARRIER are:
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