Hawaii moves ahead with undersea power cable plans
Miami Herald
Government renewable energy officials announced Thursday they are accepting bids from contractors to do an environmental study of the cable's possible impacts on whales, the ocean floor and coral reefs. "Hawaii has become the test center fo...
Faulty Chutes Led to Ares Moon Rocket Damage
FOX News
This underwater image shows a large dent in the lower segment of NASA's Ares I-X rocket after it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean This underwater image shows a large dent in the lower segment of NASA's Ares I-X rocket after it splashed d...
Super Cobra Helicopter & Plane Wreck
Post Chronicle
Crews searched the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast for nine people missing in a crash between two military aircraft, officials said. A pilot reported seeing a fireball Thursday near the crash area about 25 miles east of San ...
Couple's ransom demand 'expected'
BBC UK News
A ransom demand for a British couple being held by Somali pirates is to be made later, the BBC has learnt. Paul and Rachel Chandler, aged 59 and 55, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, were taken hostage by gunmen in the Indian Ocean in the early...
Paradise On Sale
Wall Street Journal
Visit the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa, which opened here in June on a stretch of unspoiled beach, and you'll find white sand, waterfront rooms and restaurants, a nearby ocean-view golf course—and discounts of 50% or more. Touris...
World's Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail
CBS News
In the stern, a 750-seat outdoor theater - modeled on an ancient Greek amphitheater - doubles as a swimming pool by day and an ocean front theater by night. The pool has a diving tower with spring boards and two 33-feet (10-meter) high dive...
Kingsway Financial completes sale of Zephyr
Forbes
... Kingsway Financial Services Inc. said Friday that it has completed the sale of Zephyr Insurance Company Inc. for $31.5 million. The Canadian company sold the specialty property insurance business to Zephyr Acquisition Co., which is part...
Ocean cargo/global logistics: Shipping and sourcing through Panama ...
Logistics Management
PANAMA CITY — The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced its operational metrics for the 2009 fiscal year (FY 2009) today. For shippers, however, the most significant news was that the route may be faster. Canal Waters Time (CWT), the avera...
The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up
Wall Street Journal
It concluded that a shift in ocean currents was counteracting the warming from greenhouse gases. And that is causing the planet, on balance, to cool. The paper argues that intermittent cooling from natural factors such as ocean currents wil...
'Almost out' of old Arctic sea ice, expert warns
MSNBC
OTTAWA - The multiyear sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, an Arctic expert says, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes. Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which ca...
World's largest cruise ship sets sail for Fort Lauderdale
Baltimore Sun
In the stern, a 750-seat outdoor theater -- modeled on an ancient Greek amphitheater -- doubles as a swimming pool by day and an ocean front theater by night. The pool has a diving tower with spring boards and two 33-feet (10-meter) high di...
Marine, Coast Guard aircraft collide, 9 missing
Reuters
Pilots and sailors searched on Friday for any survivors in and around an ocean debris field spotted between San Clemente Island and the San Diego County coast, authorities said. "We are always hopeful. ... The assumption is always that they...
China sends anti-piracy navy convoy: state media
YAHOO!
Last week the Chinese coal-carrying vessel De Xin Hai was seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean northeast of the Seychelles with 25 crew members on board, prompting China to vow to rescue the vessel and crew. The two frigates will join a su...
