A 9 meter, 4.5 ton basking shark was caught off Japan. Japan Probe has the story, including a video of the leviathan being gutted.
Historically, the basking shark has been a staple of fisheries because of its slow swimming speed, unaggressive nature and previously abundant numbers. Commercially it was put to many uses: the flesh [...]
SALEM – In a packed Bickford’s Restaurant, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told voters last night he would use his business sense to “take Washington apart” and make it run more effectively if elected President. An enthusiastic crowd listened to Romney’s plans to expand the military by 100,000 troops with enlistment incentives and better spending [...]
COOLANGATTA, Australia (Reuters) - Australia’s tubing Superbank is arguably the best beach break wave in the world, a man-made wave that can run for kilometers (miles), but this surfer’s paradise has revealed a dark heart of surfing. …
But Superbank, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, can be so crowded that blood has been spilt, by accident and [...]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — He’s a veteran of long-distance sailing voyages in all kinds of weather. She’s never sailed outside the Hudson River. But together, 55-year-old Reid Stowe and his 23-year-old girlfriend, Soanya Ahmad, embarked Saturday on a voyage that they intend to take them three times around the globe and last 1,000 days and nights [...]
A maritime mystery harking back to the Mary Celeste is ongoing in Australia.
An air-and-sea search was under way yesterday after a yacht was found drifting, Mary Celeste-style, off the Great Barrier Reef with its engine running and food laid out but no one on board.
It was spotted by a customs helicopter 80 nautical miles off [...]
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KNIGHTSTOWN — A free speech group has presented the Charles A. Beard Memorial School Corp. with a “2007 Jefferson Muzzle Award” for expelling four high school students who created a video in which evil teddy bears attack a teacher.Three of the students later filed a civil rights lawsuit and settled out of court for $69,000 [...]
A lot of news attention remains on the massacre at Virginia Tech, but meanwhile over there in Iraq (where massacres are a daily occurrence) the death toll continues to rise despite Bush and McCain’s surge.
BAGHDAD - Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 [...]
MANILA, Philippines, Wednesday, April 18 (AP) — Philippine authorities found the body of a missing American Peace Corps volunteer on Wednesday in a northern mountain town where she disappeared during a hike more than a week ago, an army general said.
Maj. Gen. Rodrigo Maclang said the body of Julia Campbell, 40, from Fairfax, Va., was [...]
