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Autors Aleksandrs Tregubovs
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Pirmdiena, 26 novembris 2012 23:54 |
Riou pulls out of Vendee Globe
Former winner Vincent Riou became the seventh skipper to pull out of the Vendee Globe yacht race a day after tearing a hole in his hull when colliding with a metallic bouy, his team announced on Sunday.
"It was a tough decision but the only reasonable one," said Riou.
He had been in third place in the solo round-the-world race early Saturday and was in hot pursuit of a second win after his victory in the event in 2004-2005.
But all that changed when he heard a sudden loud crack in the early hours of Saturday while racing off the coast of Brazil.
"I heard the collision at 05h00, a huge cracking sound, and the boat is badly damaged with a 130 centimetre rip down the right side, four or five metres from the stern," explained Riou on Saturday, Nov.24, 2012.
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Autors Aleksandrs Tregubovs
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Pirmdiena, 26 novembris 2012 23:33 |
Explorer Amundsen's polar ship to return to Norway
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's three-mast ship Maud, long abandoned in the Canadian Arctic ice, will be salvaged and repatriated mid-2013, a Norwegian group has announced.
The group, which plans to return the old polarship to Norway to be the centerpiece of a new museum, is this week in Cambridge Bay in Canada's far north filming and photographing the shipwreck trapped in ice.
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Autors Aleksandrs Tregubovs
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Pirmdiena, 26 novembris 2012 23:00 |
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The Black Sea LNG terminal project is important for Ukraine's efforts aimed at diversifying natural gas supplies as its existing pipeline network only facilitates imports from Russia.
"According to our estimates, the price of gas (imported through the LNG terminal) will be at least 20 percent lower than that of Russian gas," Kaskiv told reporters.
Ukraine plans to launch the LNG terminal in 2015 using a floating offshore regasification facility and complete the construction of an onshore facility by 2018, allowing it to import about 10 billion cubic metres of gas a year. ($1=0.7717 euros)
Source: Reuters 2012-11-26
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Autors Aleksandrs Tregubovs
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Sestdiena, 24 novembris 2012 18:45 |
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"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think." - Ambrose Bierce
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Autors Aleksandrs Tregubovs
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Sestdiena, 24 novembris 2012 18:09 |
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WAITER SNEEZED INTO NAPKIN ON LUXURY LINER...
THEN PUT IT ON TABLE
25 passengers are suing a luxury cruise liner after contracting a stomach bug because operators didn't follow basic hygiene rules.
Cruise ship passengers who fell ill on board a luxury liner have lodged a High Court claim for damages, claiming that hygiene was so bad a waiter sneezed into a napkin before placing it on a table and that a cabin was infested with sewer flies.
A group of 25 passengers who sailed on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas between December 2010 and June 2011 are suing the operator for £500,000 after contracting stomach bugs during the holiday.
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