We posted recently about the “race” to dive to the deepest spot in the ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, almost 36,000 feet below the surface. The first and last time that anyone ever ventured to the bottom of the trench was over fifty years ago. We posted, “Now three and possibly four teams are preparing to return to the depths of the Mariana Trench…. Hollywood director James Cameron is … understood to be preparing for a descent.”
Rumors of Cameron’s attempt have been confirmed. Reported to be making an attempt later this month, he may be the first to return to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Miles Under the Pacific, a Director Will Take On His Riskiest Project
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The Florida Legislature has designated the schooner 
I will admit to not knowing much about Oman. I know that it is a Sultanate. It exports oil. I can find it on the map on the south-east corner of the Arabian peninsula. One thing that I do know is that it has a rather remarkable sailing program.
From 1655 to 1970, the 
We recently 
The headline writers have been having fun. The Daily Beast headline reads – 
Personal items owned by Lord Nelson, valued at £37,800, were stolen from a display case at Norwich Castle in a daylight robbery.
The Staten Island ferry Herbert H. Lehman was decommissioned in 2007 and
Sarah Hebert
For most, a river or an ocean is a boundary. For a sailor, each is a highway. But, when did the first sailor set out across the water? Recent research suggests that the early man may have gone to sea, and indeed, crossed oceans, much earlier than previously thought. European Solutreans may have crossed the Atlantic over 20,000 years ago, while Neanderthals may have been crisscrossing the Mediterranean by boat over 100,000 years in the past. The earliest record of human, or near human, ocean voyaging may be the arrival of Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the ‘hobbits’ on the island of Flores in Indonesia around 1,000,000 years ago.
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This is not really a nautical story, which is why it is amusing.