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At 2330GMT and 42 seconds, ABN AMRO ONE crossed the finish line at Gilkicker point to win Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06. The superior performance of the Juan Kouyoumdjian-designed Volvo Open 70 in strong winds has brought her to the finish before the second placed boat, Neal McDonald’s Erics
A Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Port Canaveral Sunday without a missing passenger. Friends reported 21-year-old Ohio resident Daniel DiPiero missing nearly one week ago after his three roommates realized he had not slept in the cabin they shared. Authorities called off the search for DiPiero
A Chinese ship has rescued 97 Vietnamese fishermen stranded on a remote island by Typhoon Chanchu. Xinhua news agency says the fishermen were found alive on the Chinese island of Dong Sa, three days after the powerful storm swept through the South China Sea. Another 18 bodies were found dead by the
Varna. More than 2 km of a net, used for catching turbot were found on a Turkish trawler, seized this morning in the Bulgarian coastal town of Varna. The net was found wet, with mussels on it and in working condition, the Chief of the Border Police Directorate in Varna Dimitar Vasilev said, cited by
At 1226GMT and 29 seconds, Neal McDonald’s Ericsson crossed the Gilkicker point finish line to take second place in Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race. After a traumatic series of crew changes, including the demotion of the skipper for one leg, the team has fought back from some lack-lustre performances
Moscow – Six heavily armed pirates robbed a Russian tanker in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Guinea, west Africa, Russian coast guards said on Sunday. The pirates boarded the tanker and stole the contents of the till before making their escape in a motor boat, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS quot
HONOLULU (AP) _ A Tesoro oil tanker spilled up to 2,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday morning. Tesoro spokesman Nathan Hokama says the spill occurred about one-point-five miles off the coast of Oahu when a hose line pumping oil from the tanker to a floating buoy disconne
At 2200GMT the Volvo Ocean Race headquarters issued the following statement concerning Bouwe Bekking
The order book position of the Indian shipyards stands at Rs 10,000 crore at present and is expected to improve further, Mr T.R. Baalu, Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, told the members of Consultative Committee here on Saturday. In order to offer incentives to shipbuilding activi
A ceremony marking the keel laying for Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria was held today at the Marghera shipyard of Fincantieri near Venice, Italy. The second largest Cunarder ever built, Queen Victoria will enter service on December 11, 2007 and become the third in Cunard’s fleet of Queens when she join
WASHINGTON — Despite talk of an energy crisis and the need for independence from foreign oil, Congress seems to be in no mood to open more of the country’s coastal waters to energy development. The House late Thursday rejected an attempt to end the quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling
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Extra security workers will be on duty for the return to port Sunday morning of the Mariner of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship which is home-ported at Port Canaveral. The ship has been in the news since one of the passengers was lost at sea on Monday. “There will be some heightened security
