Tuesday, October 23, 2018

World's Oldest Shipwreck

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From the Guardian Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Viking ship burial discovered by radar

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From National Geographic   by Andrew Curry Enormous, rare Viking ship burial discovered by radar ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND  the ...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

A new(ish) kind of wind powered ship

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SHIVER ME TIMBERS!  I NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE IT!! But though it may look weird it will help save the planet. From the Economist A...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Another oligarch and his super yachts in trouble

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Super yacht Queen K A small item in today's paper caught my eye, because the theme seemed eerily familiar. OLIGARCH'S U...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Shipmaster fined for hitting protected rock

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Gorgeous ship, isn't she?  L'Austral , one of a fleet of small luxury vessels specializing in taking small groups to the sub-Anta...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Paint the world a haunting blue

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For the last 25+ years I have been a huge fan of cyanotypes by Robert A. Schaefer Jr., and every now and then the world takes notice of h...

Early Maori in New Zealand

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Fascinating new details of pre-European settlement in New Zealand are revealed -- Much of the South Island of New Zealand is tussock ...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Super yachts to the rescue?

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Having received some interesting responses to yesterday's post, " Are all the owners of super yachts evil? "  I decided to ...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Are all the owners of super-yachts evil?

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After all the fuss about the super-yacht Equanimity  (pictured), presumably owned by shadowy billionaire Jho Low, center-stage in the Mal...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

German WW2 album holds chilling images of the beginning of the conflict

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From the Daily Mail online Chilling never-before-seen pictures have emerged that show the first shots of the Second World War being fi...