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Saving Lives: NOAA’s Satellites Used to Detect and Locate Distress Signals
There were 306 water rescues in 2019 and NOAA’s satellites were there to pinpoint the location. The information received is sent to the SARSAT Mission Control Center at ...
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Sailboat Found Drifting in Malacca Strait With No One Aboard
(Maritime Bulletin) – While fishing in waters in northeast Sumatra, Malacca Strait, fishermen found a sailboat drfting with no one aboard. Not much is known about the boat ...
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Treaty Signed to Protect the Titanic in Perpetuity
(The Scotsman) – The Titanic has been lying underwater for over 100 years and the U.S. and UK have just signed a treaty that gives the countries the ...
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Piracy on the Rise in Singapore
(Asean Today) – There was nearly double the number of incidents of piracy in The Straits of Malacca and Singapore last year versus 2018. There is some speculation ...
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Man Thought to Have Drown While Untangling Line From His Propeller
(Somerset Live) – Last summer a sailor left on his yacht, Egoist, from his mooring in Watchet, UK. Fifteen days later his body was discovered. An inquest has ...
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Owner Used His Superyacht to Smuggle a Painting Out of Spain
(Forbes) – Spanish billionaire Jaime Botin will be spending 18-months in jail as well as paying $60 million for smuggling Picasso’s Head of a Young Woman out of ...
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Dufour 530: Innovative, Versatile & Fast
Dufour is one of the most venerable brands in the world sailing market and today still is one of the most popular brands of sailboats in Europe, particularly ...
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Marina in South Puget Sound Saved in Donation to State
(Key Peninsula News) – In some good news for South Puget Sound the Recreational Boating Association of Washington and its nonprofit RBAW Marine Parks Conservancy announced that they ...
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Sailboat Washes Ashore on Egyptian Coast, Sailor Missing
(Telegraph) – The family of Scotsman Colin Finnie last heard from him on December 7 as he was nearing the end of his voyage across the Indian Ocean ...
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500 Year Old Anchors Discovered Off Coast of Mexico
(BBC News) – Anchors from the 16th Century have been discovered off the coast of Mexico. Archaeologists believe they may have been from ships led by the Conquistador ...
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