Emirates Team New Zealand has launched its second 2007 race yacht, with Prime Minster Helen Clark performing the honours at the team
The 11th annual Azimut Yachts Dealers Meeting took place in Milan, on the 5th of October 2006, at the Principi di Savoia Hotel. This meeting represented the most important moment in the annual activities between Azimut Yachts and their worldwide dealers: this meeting gathered the Board of Azimut Yac
Tamil Tiger rebels have carried out a suicide attack on a naval base in the southern Sri Lankan tourist city of Galle. Eyewitnesses to the attack and the chaotic aftermath describe what they saw. When we heard the first blast, we didn’t know what it was. We immediately ran to get a view of the [&hel
ISS, the International Superyacht Society, has announced that noted actress, Stephanie Zimbalist, will emcee the large yacht industry
The swelling legions of the super-rich are no longer content with your basic yacht. Only a mega-yacht will do – with, for starters, a parking bay for the Ferrari, a heliport and a jacuzzi. On display at a recent nautical expo in the northern Italian port of Genoa, gleaming in the autumn sunshine, we
Husky Energy Inc. reported net earnings of $682 million or $1.61 per share (diluted) in the third quarter of 2006, up 23 percent from $556 million or $1.31 per share (diluted) in the third quarter of 2005. Cash flow from operations in the third quarter was $1.2 billion or $2.88 per share (diluted),
Maersk Contractors and Total E&P Borneo have agreed on a contract for lease of a 375 ft jack-up rig to drill at Total’s Maharaja Lela field off Brunei. The rig is the first of two identical jack-up drilling rigs presently under construction at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The contract will commence
THE US$200 MILLION yacht docked in Carlisle Bay belongs to billionaire philanthropist Paul Gardner Allen. The 127-metre (416-foot) MY Octopus, a regular visitor to Barbados, was launched in 2003 as the world’s largest yacht, though it is fourth in the list of motor yachts by length.
A complete ban on North Sea cod fishing in 2007 is the main recommendation to European governments from their scientific advisors on fisheries. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Ices) says stocks of cod, sandeel and anchovy remain below sustainable limits. Ices has made the s
The benefits of eating fish outweigh any potential health risks from pollutants, a study has concluded. The Harvard School of Public Health reviewed existing studies that looked at the health effects of eating fish. They concluded eating up to two portions of fish a week was beneficial, and eating f
A busy Hampshire port had to be closed overnight after a gas leak on board a tanker at an oil refinery. Southampton port was shut when a faulty valve caused a leak on Tuesday evening on a tanker taking liquid propane gas from Fawley oil refinery. There were fears the gas could ignite and the [&helli
Anyone fancy a holiday home in the Seychelles? A new artificial island is shaping up to sell the dream for the price of a London bedsit. Until recently the Seychelles was best known as a sun-kissed holiday destination – just ask the Blairs, Brad Pitt and Paul McCartney, who have all spent summers th
A gasoline tanker ship exploded Tuesday as a welding spark came into contact with fuel at a Mexican port, killing at least eight people and injuring nine others, officials said. Four hundred workers were evacuated from the area of the ship, owned by Mexico’s national oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos
Archaeologists discovered a Viking ship burial Tuesday on a farm in southern Norway. The excavation was being carried out in preparation for the expansion of the graveyard at Hedrum Church in Larvik, Aftenposten reported. The researchers told Norwegian Broadcasting that another ship appears to be bu
