Canada and its surrounding waters are expected to see some of the most dramatic change on the planet as temperatures rise in the coming decades due to global warming. As a result, Canada is spearheading Canada’s Three Oceans, an international project that will take detailed observations along the country’s entire coast – from Halifax through the Arctic to Victoria. Two Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers will measure temperatures, salinity, oxygen, carbon and nutrient levels of the surface water. They’ll also monitor everything from bacteria to beluga whales and make detours for detailed sampling, down to depths of up to one kilometer in key locations to get a better read on the threatening shifts being seen in currents flowing in and out of the Arctic. The project director hopes to run the monitoring project annually until 2050, since the mid-century is a key benchmark in computer climate models being used to study global warming. However, some scientists fear estimates have been wrong and that the Arctic summer ice could in fact disappear by 2030.
The tall ship, HMS Bounty featured in the 1962 movie, “Mutiny on the Bounty” is poised to take to the high seas following a US$2 million overhaul in which everything but the keel and hull was replaced. It was a make over expanding over a period of more than a year that the HMS Bounty has been now relaunched on 9th June at the Boothbay
Harbour Shipyard in preparation for a historic around-the-world voyage. The grand lady is now in her full preparation to attempt to follow an around-the-world course that Captain William Bligh took in 1788 when the original Bounty was commissioned to sail to Tahiti to collect sapling breadfruit trees. She will be embarking on her 6000-mile adventure voyage on 2nd July 2007 starting with an 18-member crew.
Crew Evacuated from Stranded Bulker @ Australia
All 22 Filipino and Korean crew had a miraculous escape when they were air lifted and rescued from a grounded bulk carrier about 30 KM from the shore at the popular Nobbys Beach in Australia on 8th June,2007. The report says, the ship failed to heed to the radio warning from the Newcastle Port Corporation in the early morning and as the storm hit the coast, the Pasha Bulker could not clear in time resulting in the consequent beaching. Although the ship was empty of any cargo at the time, it reportedly contained around 700 tonnes of fuel and 100 tonnes of other chemicals onboard, which if released could cause a major ecological disaster. Final preparations to re-float the ship began on 28th June 2007 when the ballast water was pumped out to aid buoyancy. Tugboats then began pulling on the lines attached to the bow on the port side and the ship reportedly moved for the first time. However, an ocean swell of 4m pounded the ship and caused the bow to move back and forth even while tethered to the tugboats. Eventually one of the cables connecting the ship to one of the tugboat snapped, dashing the attempt to refloat the ship.
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Canada and its surrounding waters are expected to see some of the most dramatic change on the planet as temperatures rise in the coming decades due to global warming. As a result, Canada is spearheading Canada’s Three Oceans, an international project that will take detailed observations along the country’s entire coast – from Halifax through the Arctic to Victoria.
