Tag: Sea

Following the motion picture launch of “The Iron Lady” – based on the true story of Margaret Thatcher – Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery are providing their passengers with the chance to join a political debate at sea.

Both small ship lines, known for their enrichment cruises and signature Guest Speaker series, will showcase experts on board offering real insight into the world of politics.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2011) In recent decades, Arctic sea ice has suffered a dramatic decline that exceeds climate model predictions. The unexpected rate of ice shrinkage has now been explained by researchers at CNRS, Universitי Joseph Fourier and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
They argue that climate models underestimate the rate of ice thinning, which is actually about four times faster than calculations. This model bias is due to the poor representation of the sea ice southward drift out of the Arctic basin through the Fram Strait.
When this mechanism was taken into account to correct the discrepancy between simulations and observations, results from the new model suggested that there will be no Arctic sea ice in summer by the end of the century.

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 mi) in length and as much as 23 kilometres (14 mi) in width, amounting to 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi).
It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.

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Thanks for a great summer of Sailing!

Booking For BVI New Years and Spring Is Open. Booking For Summer 2011, Opens Dec 4th 2010.
Gather your friends and be part of an epic voyage in the Mediterranean and Caribbean waters!

The Chinook Powerglide Windsurfing Sail: Performance, durability, and light-weight built into one sail. Majority of X-ply material combined with Dacron is very light yet extremely durable. Endo-batten seam shaping helps to create a powerful sail that is tunable with screw-adjusting batten tensioners. Designed for demanding recreational sailors. Size: 6.5, Boom: 197-200, Luff: 462.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2010) Evidence from the Challenger Deep -- the deepest surveyed point in the world's oceans -- suggests that tiny single-celled creatures called foraminifera living at extreme depths of more than ten kilometres build their homes using material that sinks down from near the ocean surface.

The Challenger Deep is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It lies in the hadal zone beyond the abyssal zone, and plunges down to a water depth of around 11 kilometres.

Nautiluses are sea creatures - they are cephalopods, which means they are related to octopuses, squids and cuttlefish. Like these they have soft, squishy bodies and plenty of tentacles. Unlike the others, nautiluses have a hard spiral shell like a snail which protects them from predators.

There are a number of different species of chambered nautilus, the most well-known being Nautilus pompilius. All the species live in the tropical waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans, in the deep waters around coral reefs.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2009) With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Yet little has been known about the evolution of this early branch in the animal tree of life.

Cruise vacations have become a popular way to see the world with new ships and themed excursions being added every year. In fact, between 1980 and 2004, the cruise industry has seen an 8.2 percent average passenger growth rate per year. If you've considered a cruise, but feel daunted by choices and questions, use the information below from Orbitz travel expert Heather Leisman to take the mystery out of organizing and preparing for your very own sea adventure

In 1933, two struggling British shipping companies treaded water as the Great Depression sunk hundreds of businesses. Cunard and White Star Lines merged in 1934 and currently operate under the Cunard name, sailing cruise ships you've probably heard of, like the Titanic and the Queen Elizabeth 2, or the QE2, and popularizing the idea of luxury travel by sea.