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SR Shetye National Institute of Oceanography Goa “Ships regularly clean tanks and discharge the waste oil at sea, but in this case a vessel dumping oil exceeded all proportions. Crude oil mixes with water to form an emulsion that looks like chocolate pudding. Winds and waves continue to stretch and tear the oil patches into smaller pieces, or tar balls.”

John Falkingham Sea Ice Consultant Ottawa Last week's incident underlines the inadequate charting of Arctic waters. It is the single biggest issue in the Arctic."

Professor Verena Tunnicliffe University Of Victoria BC. Canada Exploration Command Centre NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Seattle “Stalked sea lilies once covered the ocean, shallow and deep, but now are rare. “I’ve only seen a few in my career, but on this expedition, I was amazed to see them in great diversity on nearly every ROV dive. I’ve seen them before in other places around seafloor vents, but those animals were perhaps an inch in size. The sea spiders imaged on this mission were huge, eight inches or more across.”

Tim Shank Marine biologist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts “This first exploration of the Indonesian deep-sea has revealed a high diversity of species and a significantly different composition between shallower water fauna and deep-sea fauna. This discovery is significant because it suggests that the evolutionary processes that shaped this deep-sea faunal diversity may be similar to those that resulted in the high diversity of shallow water fauna in the broader Coral Triangle region.”

Gichiri Ndua Managing Director Mombasa Port “Bidders will be required to provide bid bond of $500,000. There shall be an organised site visit on 13 September 2010 starting from 0930 hrs. The extension of container berths will enable the port to handle three container vessels simultaneously. Commercial ports efficiency world over are measured on the time it takes for imports and exports to leave the port.”
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 GOA – ARABIAN GULF - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Dumped oil hits
Goa beaches as peak season starts

Goa is facing a tourism disaster after tons of waste oil dumped by an unidentified ship into the Arabian Gulf washed up on the pristine beaches just one month before the tourist peak begins. Colva, Candolim and Calangute beaches popular with winter sun seekers have all been badly hit...

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 SOUTH KOREA – CHINA SEA - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Boat vanishes in 'ship graveyard'  

South Korean authorities stepped up search efforts for Chinese fishermen who fell into the sea after their boat collided with a South Korean cargo ship. All crewmembers of the fishing boat are missing, the exact number is not known...

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 CANADA – ARCTIC - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Fuel tanker runs aground in Nunavut

A fuel tanker that ran aground in western Nunavut on the Canadian Coast is not leaking any oil according to the Canadian Coast Guard. The ship called The Nanny is stuck about 30 kilometres from Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. It is not known what the ship is stuck on...

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 WORLD – RESEARCH - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Sea level likely to rise up to 70 cm by 2100

A new scientific study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that ocean levels could rise significantly by 2100 due to climate change. Scientists point out that even the most extreme geoengineering projects would not be able to arrest the rising sea levels...

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 CHINA – PACIFIC OCEAN - 01 SEPTEMBER 2010
China succeeds in 3,700 meters manned dive

A Chinese submersible designed to dive to a depth of 7,000 meters has achieved a 3,759 meters manned dive during a test.The submersible, named, "Jiaolong " completed 17 dives with three crew on board in the South China Sea from May 31 to July 18. It also set a record by operating underwater for nine hours and three minutes...

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 CHINA – PACIFIC OCEAN - 01 SEPTEMBER 2010
China builds base to tap deep-sea energy  

China is going ahead with a 72.8 million dollar research base on its east coast to search for energy sources and rare earth elements on the ocean floor. Engineers have started to design the base to be located in the coastal city of Qingdao.
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 CANADA – ARCTIC - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Cruise ship hits rock in ‘un-chartered’ Arctic

CLIPPER ADVENTURERThe Clipper Adventurer crashed into the rock on Friday 27 August 2010 after it set out from Kugluktuk, Nunavut for a 12-day voyage through the Northwest Passage. None of the 110 passengers onboard were injured...
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INDONESIA – INDIAN OCEAN - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Indonesian - U.S. Scientists Find Unusual Inhabitants

A rare and exciting look at the seafloor – with images of unusual and beautiful creatures – was offered to U.S. and Indonesian scientists working side-by-side at Exploration Command Centres in Jakarta and Seattle this summer…

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 INDONESIA – EAST TIMOR SEA - 01 SEPTEMBER 2010
Indonesia seeks
$2.2bn compensation for oil spill

Officials from Jakarta have held negotiations in Perth this week with the Australian subsidiary of Thai-owned explorer PTTEP, the company behind last year's Montara oil spill off the Kimberley. Indonesia is seeking a multi-billion-dollar settlement...
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 KENYA – INDIAN OCEAN - 03 SEPTEMBER 2010

KENYA PORTS AUTHORITY LOGOMombasa bid
to expand cargo berthing

The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has invited bids for additional berthing and an adjacent stacking yard at Mombasa port. Ships calling on the port have experienced delays in getting container berths and there are problems berthing larger container ships. The loss of transit business is of advantage to competing ports such as Dar es Salaam and South Africa…

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A compilation of video clips collected in deepwater by the Little Hercules Remotely Operated Vehicle and camera platform during the INDEX-SATAL 2010 Exploration of the Sangihe Talaud Region. Known as "America's ship for ocean exploration", the Okeanos Explorer, in partnership with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration (OER), will travel around the globe to map and characterize largely unknown areas of the ocean. The Okeanos Explorer can discover interesting seafloor features with the deep water multibeam sonar mapping system. In addition, the ship has a dedicated Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), which can travel down to a depth of 4,000 meters. Images and high-definition video from the ROV and camera platform will be sent from the vehicles on the seafloor to the ship and to shore in real-time, a technology referred to as "telepresence." Although the Okeanos Explorer may be thousands of miles away, the scientists standing watch at shore side exploration "command centers" throughout the country will be able to guide the ship through its mission, and help enable seafloor images and video to stream live into classrooms, newsrooms, and living rooms through high speed internet. Video courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010.NOAA: Okeanos Explorer - Indonesia The modernisation and expansion of Kenyas Port facilities will not begin as yet. Consultants who are preparing a master plan for the ports modernisation at a cost of 43 billion shillings have been compelled to go back to the drawing board to refine that blueprint. Stakeholders from government and the private sector have faulted the drafters of the plan for failing to consult widely on the implications of the project.Mombasa Port News Clip
These are the best Goan's beaches edited by Agnelo Dsouza..Goa beaches This clip from the "Five Ways to Save the World" details a cheap, simple, and low-risk way to compensate for global warming. If the reflectivity of clouds could be increased slightly, sufficient sunlight would be reflected to compensate for any future release of CO2 into the atmosphere. One method of doing this would be to eject seawater spray into the air using a fleet of automated ships. It's estimated that 50 ships costing a few million dollars each could spray enough seawater to do the job.Using Cloud-Seeding GeoEngineering
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A compilation of video clips collected in deepwater by the Little Hercules Remotely Operated Vehicle and camera platform during the INDEX-SATAL 2010 Exploration of the Sangihe Talaud Region. Known as "America's ship for ocean exploration", the Okeanos Explorer, in partnership with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration (OER), will travel around the globe to map and characterize largely unknown areas of the ocean. The Okeanos Explorer can discover interesting seafloor features with the deep water multibeam sonar mapping system. In addition, the ship has a dedicated Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), which can travel down to a depth of 4,000 meters. Images and high-definition video from the ROV and camera platform will be sent from the vehicles on the seafloor to the ship and to shore in real-time, a technology referred to as "telepresence." Although the Okeanos Explorer may be thousands of miles away, the scientists standing watch at shore side exploration "command centers" throughout the country will be able to guide the ship through its mission, and help enable seafloor images and video to stream live into classrooms, newsrooms, and living rooms through high speed internet. Video courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010. NOAA: Okeanos Explorer - Indonesia
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