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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, its a way of lookin at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at lifes realities. -Dr. Seuss
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Divers push on despite death, dangers in sunken ship -...
Rated • 1 review • news, philippines • inquirer.net
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Divers push on despite death, dangers in sunken ship
By Alcuin Papa
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 20:47:00 06/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- There were palm prints on the ship's windows, bodies were bloated four to five times their size. And death was palpable both above and below the water.
The sheer horror of the dead bodies of passengers of the sunken M/V Princess of the Stars and the difficulty of retrieving them have left even veteran Coast Guard divers weak, sapped of their physical strength and overwhelmed by their emotions.
But beyond the horrors, the divers interviewed by the INQUIRER Saturday also spoke of the mission they felt compelled to accomplish at all cost and at the risk of their own lives.
Vanessa Garon, 28, and her sister Alexandra, 23, are the only two women divers helping the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) retrieve bodies inside the wreck of the ill-fated ship.
The INQUIRER caught up with the sisters, daughters of counselors Bob and Emmy Garon, Saturday during their checkup at the East Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City.
Authorities stopped retrieval operations when it was learned that the ship carried a cargo of the toxic pesticide endosulfan. Concerned about the health of the divers, officials ordered them to undergo medical tests.
The two first dove into the wreck last Thursday and had logged in around 80 minutes underwater. They went down as far as 120 feet.
"From the top, you can smell death. Underwater, you can actually feel death," Coast Guard auxiliary diver Vanessa said.
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Shifting Baselines
Rated • 2 reviews • environment, news, science, marine biology • scienceblogs.com
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Shifting Baselines
The cure for planetary amnesia
Greetings ScienceBlogs readers and welcome to a new blog which will focus on this relatively new term, "shifting baselines," and its importance not just in the oceans (though the oceans will be the primary focus) but in all other aspects of our lives. The term shifting baselines was coined in 1995 in the world of fisheries by Dr. Daniel Pauly, Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. A baseline is a reference point. When we begin to lose track of our reference points from the past, allowing them to shift, we can begin to lose track of change. This is obviously a very powerful and important concept for conservation biology since how can we conserve nature if we lose track of what was originally there?
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Colombians take drug smuggling to new level - underwater...
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"Drug smuggling taken to new depths - underwater
Colombians who thought they had seen everything in the war on drugs were treated to something new this year: cocaine smuggling in a submarine.
In images shown on national television, several men emerged from the makeshift fiberglass craft, opened hatches designed to let in water and sent the submarine and its cargo of cocaine to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Even though the they had traces of the drug on their clothing, the smugglers were rescued from their lifeboat and, in the absence of further evidence, released without charge.
Authorities say they are bracing for the day when smugglers figure out how to make full-fledged submarines capable of diving deep and navigating even more quietly than the current generation, which known locally as "semi-submersibles."
Meanwhile, Cely said he is increasing land patrols along the coast to find the vessels where they are most likely to be detected, on their construction ramps.
"They are evolving quickly in terms of technology. They are getting bigger, faster and are outfitted with GPS navigation systems and satellite telephones," Cely said.
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23863690-5...
Rated • 1 review • environment, news • news.com.au
Whales worth more alive than dead
It found visitors to whale-watching areas in high-income countries were spending $1.5bn per year by 1998, with the figure forecast to grow by $3 to $4bn a year over the next 20 years.
The number of whale-watching visitors was also expected to increase by 10 million a year.
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Thousands of newspapers on the Net
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Thousands of Newspapers At Your Fingertips
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Universe / by Jonathan Harris
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Universe
See a visual image of events, organizations, individuals or concepts that dominate the news on any given day, week or recent year.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageI...
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National DNA database gets kickstart from feds
Tests could reveal facts 'making individual less useful to society'
With virtually no fanfare, President Bush signed into law a plan ordering the government to take no more than six months to set up a "national contingency plan" to screen newborns' DNA in case of a "public health emergency."
The new law requires that the results of the program - including "information ... research, and data on newborn screening" - shall be assembled by a "central clearinghouse" and made available on the Internet.
According to congressional records, S.1858, sponsored by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., was approved in the Senate Dec. 13, in the House April 8 and signed by Bush April 24.
"Soon, under this bill, the DNA of all citizens will be housed in government genomic biobanks and considered governmental property for government research," said Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care. "The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research."
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Robots scour sea for atomic waste | Environment |...
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Robots scour sea for atomic waste
Submarines search for radioactive material dumped off the Scottish coast in the 1980s
Robot submarines are to be used to sweep particles of plutonium and other radioactive materials from the seabed near one of Britain's biggest nuclear plants in one of the most delicate clean-up operations ever in this country.
Each submersible will be fitted with a Geiger counter and will crisscross the sea floor to pinpoint every deadly speck close to Dounreay on Scotland's north coast before lifting each particle and returning it to land for safe storage.
Two kilometres of beach outside the Dounreay nuclear plant have been closed since 1983, and fishing banned, when it was found old fuel rod fragments were being accidentally pumped into the sea. The cause was traced and corrected but particles - including plutonium specks, each capable of killing a person if swallowed - are still being washed on to this bleakly beautiful stretch of sand and cliff on mainland Britain's northern edge.
