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After 1152 days at sea Reid Stowe, 58, arrived back at the docks in Manhattan. His 70 foot schooner “Anne” set sail on April 21, 2007 and started the voyage around the world from New Jersey. Initially Mr Stowe sailed with his girlfriend Soanya Ahmad, 26, which disembarked from the schooner off Rottnest Island, near Perth, Western Australia after suspecting she was pregnant.
The family built 60 ton vessel was constructed on a North Carolina beach cottage of his maternal grandfather from Ferralite over steel wire mesh for the hull in eighteen month and finished in 1978. The design is close to the American gaff-rigged fishing schooners of the late nineteenth century.
This year, the Save Koh Tao Group and The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) is implementing an ‘Adopt a Reef’ program to make local businesses or landowners responsible for the protection and maintenance of reef areas around the island. This program is aimed to combat threats to our coral reefs to protect these ecosystems and the economies and business dependent upon their health.
Thailand is certainly not the only place where excellent Live-aboard SCUBA diving is offered . First lets agree on a definition on what live-aboard is.
A live-aboard service offers its guests to stay on board for one or more nights, unlike a day boat operation. This allows time to travel to more distant dive-sites. Normally a live-aboard operation charters for ten to thirty passengers.
Abby (Abigail) Sunderland has bee preparing her circumnavigation since age 13. She started her circumnavigation on February 6, 2010. After rounding Cape Horn and Cape hope her yacht “Wild Eyes” a 40-foot (12.19 m) sloop built in 2001 by A.S.A. Yachts PTY, Australia, designed by Jutson Yacht specifically for sailing single-handed through the Southern Ocean got dismasted in the Southern Ocean.
She’s safe after search and rescue operation could locate her and a french fishing boat could take her aboard.
Wreck 2010 will be an alternative dive site and coral/fish nursery to reduce diving pressures on natural reef areas. This project is part of a larger program being enacted by the Save Koh Tao Marine Branch. The Wreck will be constructed from prefabricated concrete components to mimic a cargo ship wreck.
This new wreck dive site is specially designed to function as a SCUBA training site and coral/fish nursery. This project will be conducted with the assistance from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR), Prince of Songkla Univeristy, and Mohidol Univeristy International College.
Surin Island National Marine Park a paradise of thick jungle, fine white sandy beaches crystal-clear waters, and the most extensive coral reefs in Thailand. It is also home of the Moken Sea Gypsies. It is famous for it’s gorgeous, diverse and prolific shallow-water corals, and popular with live-aboard diving tours. It’s an ideal place to go for people wanting to connect with nature. Pristine form and beautiful, escaping traditional touristy beaches.
Plastiki proves the power of ingenuity, imagination combined with some eco awareness with creator, environmental advocate and eco-adventurist David de Rothschild at the helm.
Plastiki is a showcase of how waste can be used as a valuable resource. This modern vessel has been engineered from cutting edge materials and all available sustainable design technologies, the 60 foot catamaran, constructed from PET (polyethylene terephthalate, a recycled plastic resin and a form of polyester) makes up her super structure while 12500 recycled 2 lt plastic bottles pressurized with dry ice powder, making her buoyant enough to carry four people on an 11000 mile voyage from San Fransisco to Sydney. The unique sail is hand made from recycled PET cloth, the mast, a reclaimed aluminum irrigation pipe and the secondary bonding, 100% organic made from cashew nuts and sugar cane. Read more »
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