An alarming number of cases have been reported over the last few years, of yachts being stolen to move illegal immigrants across international borders. The problem has been particularly bad in the coastal regions of Greece and Turkey where an established network of immigrant smugglers are targeting tourist yachts.
By choosing larger tourist-owned yachts, the [...]

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A new era in British warship construction has been announced with the launch of HMS Daring ….
The beginning of February 2006 saw the launch of HMS Daring into the Clyde River at Glasgow. This is the first of the Type-45 destroyers, which measures a colossal 153 metres in length, weighs 7,350 tonnes and costs an [...]

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The Sea Fish Industry Authority are currently carrying out investigations at sea to try and discover if fishing boats can use vegetable oil to fuel boats. Engines are being created and existing engines modified to convert vegetable oil into the correct energy to power the fishing boat. Soon our fish could be caught by oil [...]

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When the ten Clipper yachts left Albert Docks in Liverpool back in September 2005, no-one expected the race could be suspended through safety fears. But when seven out of the ten vessels were discovered to have faulty bolts in the keel of the yachts, the organisers, Clipper Ventures, had little choice but to suspend the [...]

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