American
border
security
officials
have increased
sea patrol in an effort to curb increasing numbers of illegal
immigrants
attempting to get in to the country by sea. US Customs and Border
Protection
guards have arrested 736 suspected illegal immigrants in the past year,
up from
400 the previous year, and 230 the year before that...
Thousands of
holidaymakers were banned from
beaches in France after a crocodile was
allegedly spotted in the
sea. The beast was spotted near sailing boats in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer. The 9ft crocodile was
seen by two local men.
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...
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.
A
new
simulation
of
oil
and
methane
leaked
into the Gulf
of
Mexico
suggests that
deep hypoxic zones or “dead zones” could form near the source of the
pollution...
Chemical engineers developed a pump
that splits into
two pieces, a propeller for the interior of the aquarium and a motor
for the
exterior, connected across the glass wall by strong magnets. The magnet
is made
of neodymium, a strongly magnetic rare earth metal...
Greg
Brooks from Maine USA
wants the federal government to lift a ban on diving near a sunken WW11
freighter so he can recover 16,000 pounds of toxic mercury and
up to $200 million worth of valuable metals...
Three boys
have appeared at Ashaiman Circuit Court in Ghana for allegedly setting a ship on fire when it
was towed
to the area’s beach shore after it had run into another ship at TemaPort. The ship called the MD7 was made safe by the
Ghana
Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) after they thought it might sink
due to the
damage caused to it...
Ministry of Tourism
chief executive Mike Singh confirmed
that Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines wants to build a “tourism village”
near the remote village of Placencia. A majority of the
members of the Placencia
branch of the Belize Tourism Industry Association reportedly oppose the
idea of
a cruise ship village for larger boats...
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...
The Greenpeace ship
Esperanza is in the Arctic protesting
deep sea oil drilling by UK firm Cairn Energy. A Danish
Navy vessel
protecting Cairn’s two drilling sites in the area announced that the
Esperanza
would be raided and its captain arrested if it breaches a 500-meter
exclusion
zone...
Environmentalists say
Waters
off British Columbia are the "toilet bowl
of North America" as a result of dozens
of cruise ships heading to
and from Alaska dumping sewage in
Canadian waters. Stringent American regulations in Alaska or WashingtonState are
leading cruise ships operators to dispose of grey
and sewage water in Canadian Waters taking advantage of the more lax
rules en
route...
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NASA's Terra Satellite
captures
3 tropical cyclones in
the northwestern Pacific Ocean
NASA's Terra satellite flew over
the Northwestern
Pacific Ocean at 10:30 p.m. EDT Aug. 30 and captured Tropical Storm Lionrock,
Tropical
Storm Namtheun, and Typhoon Kompasu in one incredible image. Two of
these tropical
cyclones are expected to merge, while the other is headed for a
landfall in China.
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Ministry of Tourism
chief executive Mike Singh confirmed
that Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines wants to build a “tourism village”
near the remote 
The Greenpeace ship
Esperanza is in the Arctic protesting
deep sea oil drilling by 
NASA's Terra satellite flew over
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