Expeditions

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• 3 Great Explorers You Don’t Know

  
  Fun Facts — Authority: 469
  Some explorers got the fame, glory and other grand things. Christopher Columbus got his own day, Marco Polo got a game named after him. Here are some explorers as important with less or no fame at all.Pytheas, he was a Greek sailor, navigator. He lived in Marseilles, he was a great navigators of the sea [...]Related ...
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• Beaver Creek World Cup Wrap-Up

  
  BORN OUT THERE — Authority: 121
  I must admit that I had my doubts about pulling a 34-foot Airstream trailer into snow country, but it was smooth sailing behind our Ford Super Duty F-450. The 6.4 liter turbo diesel supplied more than enough power on high mountain passes, and it wasn’t until we reached the slopes of Beaver Creek that [...]
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• Eastern Fields

  
  Rebreather World — Authority: 159
  Has anyone dove Eastern Fields on rebreather? Going in Jan and wondering if it will be worth the extra expense for shooting video as most pics Ive seen are wide angle reef shots where OC would do just fine... Thanks, Steve
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• Cook Hit With Fraud Claims on Pole Data

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 468
  Whatever credibility Dr. Frederick A. Cooks claim to discovering the north pole might still have seems to be obliterated today as The Times publishes the sworn testimony of two men who say they aided Cook in preparing fraudulent documentation of his expedition.
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• I finally posted the Spree spring calendar

  
  Rebreather World — Authority: 159
  and what might be of interest to you folks is the 2/20 and 21 trip. $400 bucks for the Wilkes Barre, Curb, and Vandenberg weekend. Ill have mix and sorb available, as usual, and Barney is crewing. If conditions are right) like last time) well do a night dive on the Vandenberg. If the currents howling, well come ...
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• Hahn Savaged by Rough Seas off South Shetland Islands

  
  BORN OUT THERE — Authority: 121
  December 5, 2009Bransfield Strait, South Shetland IslandsS 62˚ 04′ W 57˚ 22′Storms have been battering Clelia II for several days, wreaking havoc on the planned itinerary. When I woke this morning to a force “eight” gale, I saw big tabular icebergs and big white waves smashing against them. The wind was ...
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• Western Washington Snow Run!

  
  YotaTech Forums — Authority: 172
  Thats right yall, lets bring in the new year with some fresh white powder! ... ok that maybe came out wrong... I dont know where we should go though, Ill leave that to the more experienced and wiser of the forum... I just wanted to get the thread made! Lets doooo this :fire2:
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Taft Focuses on Trade in Message to Congress

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 468
  In his first annual message to Congress, President Tafts emphasis was on American commercial interests, in particular his plans to enforce maximum tariffs only if necessary to support American trade and his anticipation of the opening of a Latin-American bank by American financiers, but major omissions were noted.
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Jon Bowermasters Expeditions

  
  Hardwear Sessions — Authority: 119
  Our Antarctic expedition was the final in the ten-year-long, National Geographic-supported OCEANS 8 project which took us literally around the world by sea kayak, introducing us to thousands of coastal people and the environmental issues that link them . Each expedition was a great adventure and turned into great ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Planet Earth - Shallow Seas

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 427
  Today on we will join host David Attenborough for the ninth, and for us at Discovery Enterprise because of our involvement in the Atlantica Expeditions – First Undersea Colony Project, the most interesting, episode of the reward winning documentary series Planet Earth. In today’s instalment we will join Dr. David ...
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• Insurer Bribed State Officials for 17 Years, Insurance Superindendent Charges

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 468
  The Phenix Fire Insurance Company evaded state investigation for the past 17 years by bribing former officials of the New York State Insurance Department with "loans," the departments superintendent, William H. Hotchkiss, says.
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• Big Bear 12-12-2009

  
  YotaTech Forums — Authority: 172
  Its going to rain Sunday evening and Monday. That means snow in big bear according to the forecast......Anyone interested in running 3N16 in Big Bear Saturday the 12th? Myself and a few other TTORA members will be attending this....Here are the specific details: News Forecast: Two pacific storms heading in our ...
  5 days ago

• Sim Expeditions – Kitesurfing Around Cape Horn

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 172
  SIM Expeditions have provided support to Kite Horn by CHS Productions (www. chsproductions. com) – Kitesurfing World Champion Bruno Sroka’s kitesurf rounding of Cape Horn (www. brunosroka. com). Year: . . .
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• Ken Gerhard : Cryptozoology (Bigfoot, Thunderbird) 9/12

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  Tim Binnall welcomes Ken Gerhard (author of: “Big Bird: Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters”), to BOA Audio to discuss his research in the area of cryptozoology. Beginning with the Big Bird / Thunderbird phenomenon, the bird v. dinosaur debate, his multiple investigations into Bigfoot and Ken’s odd discoveries ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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