A recent ruling by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, determined that orca trainers must either remain at a greater distance from the orcas, stand behind a physical barrier or use other devices to keep them safer during performances. This ruling comes two years after the death of Dawn Brancheau, a trainer who was dragged underwater and killed by an orca at the SeaWorld park in Orlando.
Ruling Puts Distance Between Killer Whales and Trainers
Ironically, the whales that are called “killer” are not dangerous to humans in the wild. Only once they are split from their family groups and held in small tanks to entertain ticket buyers, do they live up to the name. There are no documented cases of a wild orca killing a human. There is only one documented case of a wild orca ever actually biting a human. By contrast, there have been at least two dozen cases of orcas attacking humans since the 1970s, exclusively perpetrated by captive animals. Four of these attacks have resulted in deaths.
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A 66 feet long, 165 tonne, starfish and barnacle encrusted, steel and concrete floating dock has washed up on Agate beach, south-west of Portland, Oregon. A plaque on the dock identifies it as coming from the port of Misawa in northern Japan, washed free during the tsunami of 2011. The dock has tested negative for radiation. The dock drifted 5,000 miles over 15 months. Debris from the tsunami continues to be a hazard to navigation. Fortunately, no vessel collided with the floating dock at sea. Unfortunately, two other docks from the same port are still missing.
The Normandy landings, on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious invasion in world history, with over 160,000 troops and 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships.
On June 5th and 6th, depending on where you are in the world, there will be the last transit of Venus, where the planet Venus visibly passes between the earth and the Sun, until the year 2017. The previous transit of Venus was in 2004. The transit has only been visible eight times since Galileo. NASA will feature a live streaming webcast of the transit from Mauna Kea, Hawaii from its site – 
Seas of Peace
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