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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  6 hours ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 days ago

• Divers find preserved sunken stern-wheeler

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  A perfectly preserved stern-wheeler has been discovered on the bottom of Lake Laberge, about 30 miles north of Whitehorse.The 108-foot A.J. Goddard sank on Oct. 22, 1901 in about 40 feet of water. Two crewmen survived and three drowned.Doug Davidge of the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse found the gold rush ...
  4 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  4 days ago

• "Ghost Ship" of the Yukon found

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: History , Learning , North America , Canada The shipwreck of a gold rush-era steamboat that sunk in a lake located in the Yukon Territory of Canada has been recently discovered and photographed for the first time according to this story from National Geographic . The boat went down in a storm ...
  4 days ago

• Divers suspected of stealing artifacts

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  The remains of hundreds of shipwrecks line the Florida Keys reef tract. Their stories are the history of the Keys.Some wrecks have been identified, but many have not. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and state archeologist have spent thousands of dollars investigating the wrecks to determine their origin. ...
  6 days ago

• Sinking of the Queen of the Pacific

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 140
  The narrow gauge Pacific Coast Railroad served San Luis Obispo to Los Olivios and connected to steamer service at Port Harford. Photo courtesy Point San Luis Lighthouse KeepersMay 1, 1888The Queen of the Pacific was in trouble. At at 2:45 a.m. the crew notified Captain E. Andrews the vessel was 15 miles from ...
  1 week ago

• Odyssey Marine Exploration Acquires Stake In Venture To Pursue Exploration Of Deep-Ocean Gold And Copper Deposit

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NasdaqCM: OMEX), a pioneer in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, has acquired a minority interest in SMM Project LLC, a company funded by a group of investors to bring together the exclusive licenses and skills of world renowned deep-ocean geologist Dr. Timothy McConachy ...
  1 week ago

• Cameron’s Titanic Was ‘Made To Fund Shipwreck Dive’

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  Moviemaker JAMES CAMERON has revealed the biggest film of all time was only made to fund a deep-sea mission to the real Titanic.The director admits he had no intention of making an epic when he set out to film Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 movie - he just wanted to make enough [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Adrift for weeks

  
  Craft A Craft - Boat design, home building, and cruising in a nutshell — Authority: 127
  Visit - Adrift for weeks A group of men from Papua New Guinea have been rescued after more than two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean. One died near the end of their "voyage" after getting in the water to retrieve needed supplies that had blown out and they were all too weak to retrieve him.
  2 weeks ago

• WRECK DIVING

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  Hidden dangers:A shipwreck is often the only thing standing up from a flat seabed plain. Consequently, it becomes a magnet for all kinds of fish, shellfish and other marine life. Big conger eels live in most shipwrecks. Lobsters call them home. So do big crabs. And huge shoals of pouting and pollack are always to [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Fling! iPhone game

  
  Best Iphone Info — Authority: 142
  Fling! is latest puzzle-sensation for the iPhone! It is brought to you by the makers of Fuzzle, after over one year of development! Featuring 10000s of unique puzzles, such that no two puzzles you encounter are ever the same, and split into 19 levels of increasing difficulty, Fling guarantees you many long hours of ...
  2 weeks ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reasons for Using the Upline

  
  Precision Diving — Authority: 110
  I was reading a post on Scubaboard about DIR and the upline. One person argued that DIR divers were forbidden to lay one finger on the upline. I found this comment rather silly. If there is a DIR rule book, I’ve never seen it. So I doubt the argument forbidding DIR divers from using the upline holds much water. As ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Interview with U.S. Gold Coin Collector A.C. Dwyer

  
  Coin Collecting News — Authority: 438
  A.C. Dwyer, an avid coin collector, talked with us recently about the history of U.S. $20 double eagle gold coins, especially those struck during the California Gold Rush. Dwyer discusses the types of double eagles that were minted, the most interesting and rarest varieties, and why he’s so enthralled with coins ...
  2 weeks ago

• De Beers Finds Shipwreck, Treasure From Columbus Era

  
  Whiteflashs Fashion Accessories & Jewelry Insight Blog — Authority: 139
  De Beers, the world’s biggest undersea diamond miner, said its geologists in Namibia found the wreckage of an ancient sailing ship still laden with treasure, including six bronze cannons, thousands of Spanish and Portuguese gold coins and more than 50 elephant tusks. The wreckage was discovered in the area behind a ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Titanic was made to fund shipwreck dive’

  
  Cinefundas.com - One Stop Cinema Portal — Authority: 152
  Moviemaker JAMES CAMERON has revealed the biggest film of all time was only made to fund a deep-sea mission to the real Titanic. The director admits he had no intention of making an epic when he set out to film Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 movie – he just wanted to make enough money to go on a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Edmund Fitzgerald Wreck Remembered 34 Years Later

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 552
  It was on this date 34 years ago, on November 10, 1975, that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (A.K.A. "Mighty Fritz") wrecked and sank during a storm while on Lake Superior. Launched on June 8, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the biggest ship on the Great Lakes for the next 13 years. The big ship went down with all hands, 29 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Edmund Fitzgerald Shipwreck

  
  BEHIND BLONDIE PARK — Authority: 145
  Highlights:  Edmunds Fitzgerald, Shipwreck, Anniversary, Gordon Lightfoot song lyrics.Today is a historic day as SS Edmund Fitzgerald; one of the largest ships in the history sank exactly 34 years ago on this day in Lake Superior during a thunderstorm.SS Edmund Fitzgerald (nicknamed “Mighty Fitz,” “The Fitz,” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shipwreck Blog: Confederate Ship Appomattox

  
  The Drawn Cutlass — Authority: 438
  A shipwreck discovered in NCs Pasquotank River has been identified as the Civil War-era Confederate ship Appomattox. They were able to identify it after finding a silver-plated spoon inscribed with the name of one of the crewmen; there wasnt much else left of the wreck that might help to identify it.
  3 weeks ago

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