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Two bodies have been sighted in the effort to find six missing passengers and crew from the Bayesian, a superyacht that sank in a storm off the Sicilian coast in the early hours of Monday. There were 22 people on board, 10 crew members and 12 passengers. Fifteen were rescued, among them nine of the staff; six are still missing, while the body of the ship's cook was recovered during the first search. Early on Wednesday afternoon, two bodies were found inside the wreck of the sailing ship. Divers reportedly glimpsed them behind furniture and mattresses in one of the cabins on the boat's lower de...
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A 49-metre sailboat with 22 people on board sank due to bad weather around 5 am local time (5 am CEST) in the stretch of sea across from Porticello in the province of Palermo. 15 people were rescued by coastguard patrol boats and fire brigades, while seven people are missing. According to local media, a fierce storm, including water spouts, battered the area overnight. Divers from the fire brigade have dived to reach the hull at a depth of 49 metres, about half a mile from the coast. Searches underwayThe boat, called the "Bajesian", was flying the British flag and carrying mostly British citiz...
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No affordable housing, overrun healthcare and disrespectful behaviour. A growing list of complaints is being thrown at local authorities who fail to keep tourism numbers under control. This weekend, protesters in Mallorca stormed a popular beach in the latest protest against overtourism seen around Europe. Members of the 'Occupem Les Nostres Platges' ('Occupy Our Beaches') movement gathered at the popular Balneario 6 area of S'Arenal beach in Palma. More than 100 protesters laid out their towels and took a symbolic dip in the sea, calling for stricter limits on tourism. Last year, Mallorca res...
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The German government is looking into licensing dispersants for combating marine oil spills away from the coastline, Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said on Thursday. To date, the use of dispersants is permitted only in exceptional cases, according to Lemke, who was visiting the maritime emergencies command centre in Cuxhaven on the North Sea coast. The centre is responsible for emergencies on the North Sea and on the Baltic Sea. Dispersants were currently licensed along the North Sea coast within territorial waters reaching 12 nautical miles from the coastline, but not beyond, Lemke said. T...
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Washington (AFP) - The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050 because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study said Tuesday. The Sea Level Rise Technical Report combined tide gauge and satellite observations with climate modeling from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to make projections for the next 100 years. It updates a 2017 technical report, providing new information on how tide-, wind- and storm-driven water levels affect current future flood risk....
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Washington (AFP) - Sea otters are a hardy lot. The smallest of all marine mammals with the thickest fur of the animal kingdom, they can hold their breath for up to eight minutes while they dive for prey like clams and crabs, which they're known to crack open using rocks. An enduring mystery, however, was just how the mustelids manage to stay warm in the chilly waters of their Pacific habitat, bereft of the blubber that insulates seals, whales and walruses. The answer, according to a new paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, is a unique energy conversion system whereby their muscl...
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