We just clicked over 1000nm and then we spotted ORDAGO, a 12m tricked out racing boat, on the AIS – 5nm to our south, zooming passed us at 9.4kts (we were doing 5s and 6s). They are an entrant in the 2 handed Transact race, which left from Atlantic France, and finishes in Mar...
Each is mounted on an anchored buoy, using solar panels and a lead acid gel battery for power. The RPi itself remains topside in a waterproof box. It connects to the camera using a 50-foot Ethernet patch cable. We figure the challenge of building the hardware parallels that of designing ...
30,000 homes in one part of Detroit will soon become the first in the country to receive electricity transmitted by ice-cold high-performance cables. Other American cities are expected to follow Detroit's example in the years ahead, which could conserve enormous amounts of power. ...
As the sun rose on the placid waters of the Halmahera Sea, I was up on deck at 5 a.m., to take in deep breaths of the clean air. The Damai I was anchored in front of Airborek Island. The double jetty in the distance would be our dive site. The visibility underwater was fine ...
1801.The first battle fought on 2 April 1801, came about over British fears that the powerful Danish fleet would ally with France. As the British ships closed in on Copenhagen, in whose harbour the Danish fleet was anchored, several Danish ships stationed in the city’s inlet formed a block...
‘pound’—where they are trapped and collected by hand or net. Tidal fish weirs are most commonly oriented to trap fish on the ebb tide, with the catch stranded as the sea recedes. Fish traps, meanwhile, are much smaller, funnel-shaped baskets that are anchored in the water, often on...
For some minutes he had been eyeing his lordship appraisingly from the edge of the kerb, and now, secure in the fact that there seemed to be no policeman in the immediate vicinity, he anchored himself in front of him and observed that he had a wife and four children at home, all star...
Lightship- an anchored ship acting as a floating lighthouse where building a lighthouse wasn’t possible or impractical. Would display a light from the mast’s top and sound a fog signal in case of fog. Lobya- a Russian river, lake, or sea vessel until the 16th century and later. Long...
In June 1812 the same paper reported an Inquest on two men who had drowned after a late-night boat trip to “view the means resorted to for raising the wreck”. Sadly, on leaving their boat, they had waded out to sea in the darkness, instead of towards the shore. [6] ...