Rock The Boat

Coast Guard rescues 4 boaters after boat capsizes near Mendocino (United States Coast Guard - 11th District Pacific Southwest)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Nov 2016

- The Coast Guard rescued four people Tuesday after their inflatable boat capsized off Stillwell Point, south of Mendocino ... Wave action and proximity to offshore rocks prevented the survivors from regaining control of their vessel ... Following the rescue, the inflatable boat was recovered by the Coast Guard and towed to Station Noyo River....

Launch catches fire in mid-Hooghly

Edit The Times of India 16 Nov 2016

A disastrous accident was averted when several boats rushed and rescued passengers from a launch that caught fire in the middle of Hooghly near Bally Bridge in Howrah on Tuesday evening ... He too was rescued by the sailors of the boats ... "The nearby boats not only rescued the man but fixed a ladder to the launch and rescued all the passengers....

Lifejackets, the winner of the day

Edit Scoop 16 Nov 2016

Mother nature delivered a timely reminder about the importance of never overloading your boat on Monday when a vessel flipped while collecting crayfish pots off the Whakatane coast. Spotted bobbing in the water next to an overturned boat by the last ... ....

DNR recognizes BSNC subsidiary for Reclamation at Rock Creek Mine (Bering Straits Native Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Nov 2016

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources awarded Alaska Gold Company (AGC), a subsidiary of Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC), the 2016 Reclamation Award at the Alaska Miners Association Annual Convention luncheon for reclamation activities at the Rock Creek Mine on Tuesday, Nov ... The Rock Creek Mine was included in the 2012 purchase of AGC by BSNC....

People record mysterious lights in the sky during New Zealand quake

Edit DNA India 16 Nov 2016

During the recent tremors that rocked the city of Christchurch in New Zealand recently, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake wreaked much havoc in the area ... relates to the electric properties of quartz-containing rock. These rocks could interact with the Earth’s magnetic field to generate ground-based lightning flares....

Tribals in Yelagiri Hills have no access to toilets

Edit The Hindu 16 Nov 2016

At a time when measures targeted at doing away with open defecation are given priority, the tribal villagers of Yelagiri Hills have a different tale to narrate ... The toilet facility for tourists is also minimal. “The two public toilets near the Athanavoor bus stand and boat house at Punganoor remain locked. There is a pay-and-use facility inside the boat house, while there is another free facility inside Nature Park....

Weathering the storm

Edit Topix 16 Nov 2016

Xich Lo was a traditional form of transport for French and Vietnamese nobles during the French colonial times. The Nation/Chusri Ngamaprasert Cannon Fort offers astounding panoramas of Cat Ba Island's dense jungle hills, fishing boats in the harbour and the sea surrounded by a karst landscape ... ....

199 Little Heroes Series 1 Laos

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 16 Nov 2016

To is a little scallywag who seems to be shy. He is a smart boy, he wants to become a policeman.To get to school it takes To two hours by foot, boat & tuktuk-bus ... ....

Oklahoma women's basketball: Previewing No. 16 Oklahoma vs. Arkansas-Little Rock

Edit The Oklahoman 16 Nov 2016

Senior guard Gioya Carter led the team with eight rebounds ... OU is 5-1 all time against Little Rock, and two of those meetings have come in the last two seasons ... Last season, the Sooners took down Little Rock 65-52, but the Trojans came out on top in 2014 with a 66-62 win on their court ... Arkansas-Little Rock (1-1)....

Rory McGrath in court accused of stalking woman

Edit The Guardian 16 Nov 2016

The 60-year-old, from Cambridge, was said to have harassed the woman, also from Cambridge, over a 14-month period ... The woman cannot be ... He went on to appear in the Three Men in a Boat comedy specials on the BBC with Dara O Briain and Griff Rhys Jones....

British twins on mission to retrace great grand-dad’s stint in city

Edit The Hindu 16 Nov 2016

A chance online encounter with a rock climber from the city has set off two Brits on a journey back in time through the streets of Hyderabad, the ones their family patriarch, an administrator in the Nizam’s government, had worked 90 years ago. Camilla and Christiane Howe, 25-year-old identical twins, met city-based rock climber Ritwik Reddy on a couch-surfing website. Very soon, the twins realised in Mr....

Commercial Dungeness crab season under way in the Bay Area

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 16 Nov 2016

The shellfish should arrive ... On Wednesday, the two Woodhouse locations will return to offering their “Dungeness Madness” special ... Crab boats began dropping their traps in the ocean Monday night and were allowed to start pulling them up after midnight Tuesday morning....

Border Force spends $18,000 on water bottles, pens for 'branding'

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 16 Nov 2016

Authorised by the "intelligence division" the contract for the promotional material was awarded late last year and asked about during a February estimates hearing, but only recently answered. The products, which included 5000 drink bottles for $10,120, 5000 pens for $4250.40, 5000 fridge magnets for ......