A U.S. Coast Guard vessel nabbed a Costa Rican fishing boat carrying 3.5 tonnes of cocaine off the Pacific coast of Guatemala, a record haul in the region, police said on Monday. Four Costa Ricans were arrested last Thursday aboard the fishing vessel after it was stopped in international waters, sai
GRAND TURK, The Turks and Caicos Islands — Adrift out here on the fringes of the Caribbean, The Turks and Caicos Islands sit at the bottom of the Bahamas chain, nature’s afterthought 575 miles southeast of Miami. Oh, they’ve had their share of pirates and slaves, shipwrecks and plantations; but scar
KARACHI: Cargo handling stood at 76,987 tonnes at the Port Qasim, comprising 56,438 tonnes of import and 20,549 tonnes of export cargo inclusive of containerised cargo carried in 2,148 containers, during 24 hours ended at 0800 hours on Monday. Three ships scheduled to load and offload containers and
The U.S. Coast Guard is considering restricting access to an area offshore from Port Everglades after two large freighters ran aground this year, damaging delicate coral. “We’ve been working toward a resolution,” said Lt. James Suffern, the Coast Guard’s chief of waterway management for the region.
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The 65-foot fishing vessel Phantom ran aground at 2:45 a.m. today at the entrance to Willapa Bay in Pacific County, Wash., and was bouncing back and forth, buffeted by surf, Bob Koster, civilian search and rescue controller for U.S. Coast Guard Group Astoria said. He said a 47-foot motor life boat f
FORMER US president Ronald Reagan had a deep mistrust of the Washington bureaucracy, prompting this assessment: “Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say, ‘Stop doing what you’re doing’. Reagan’s words are particularly relevant to Queensland po
A project called Transatlantic21 is almost ready to attempt the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean–from Europe to the United States–in a boat driven by solar power. Sun21 is a 14-meter catamaran that was built to show the potential of solar energy for water navigation. The 7,000-mile journey from
The first Class America ever built in China will carry the sail number CHN 95. The building of the hull was completed in Dong Guan and validated by Ken Mc Alpine, technical director of the 32nd America
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has accepted an invitation to patron of Shosholoza. The Archbishop is scheduled to meet with the team on November 27 when they return to South Africa for a short break over the winter. Captain Salvatore Sarno, the managing director of Shosholoza says he is honoured b
CANCUN, Mexico – Carl Johnson said his heart missed a beat when he saw the beach outside his Cancun timeshare. He was expecting little sand a year after the resort was savaged by the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. But what he saw took him by complete surprise. His patch of golden-white s
Azimut Yachts is attending the 46th International Boat Show at Genoa with a stand that is unique in size and elegance and with two new models: Azimut 47 in the Flying Bridge range and an important new development of Azimut 39 which underlines the company
As the Senegalese authorities and the European Union try to clamp down on the flow of Africans arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands, a new departure point has opened up – Gambia – just 100km further south of the centre of the Senegalese migrant trade. Senegal has become the centre in the past 12 month
Teesside will host more than 100 tall ships during the summer of 2010. Hartlepool has been chosen as the finishing point for the prestigious Tall Ships Race. Special events are planned in celebration for the vessels which will berth at Jackson Dock and Hartlepool Marina for three days in early Augus
