WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA PLASTIKI CREW . . . PLASTIKI OPEN DAY – COME ON DOWN! - Sunday 1st August from 10am – 2pm. (posted by Shore Crew)
On Sunday 1st August the Plastiki will be open to visitors! This is your opportunity to ask the sailing crew, shore team and boat builders who made the Plastiki expedition come to life any and all questions you may have about this unique voyage. We’ll also be joined by our friends at Do Something, Clean Up The World and Climate Girl herself; Parrys Raines.
So, on Sunday 1st August from 10am – 2pm why not come down to the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia to learn about the state of our Oceans and see real solutions that you can employ every day.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Roz Savage arrive in Madang after a perfect row by Roz and perfect support from her team, well done guys!!!
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JESSICA'S ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY!!!
JESSICA ON THE FINAL STRETCH 15-May-2010 (Jessica is due to pass through Sydney Heads about 11.20am Sydney time)
Jessica’s historic solo around-the-world sailing trip is now just hours from completion with the talented teenager less than 40 nautical miles from home. Tens of thousands of well-wishers and fans including a host of VIPs, are expected to line Sydney Harbour this morning to greet the 16-year-old who has spent the last seven months at sea.
Jessica has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and racked up extraordinary statistics during her time at sea on her yacht Ella’s Pink Lady. She is due to pass through Sydney Heads about 11.20am (AEST) delighting the awaiting crowds.
However, as Jessica covers her final stretch along the NSW coast, the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts winds up to 45 knots and waves up to seven metres offshore. Those conditions are expected to peak on Saturday, making for a bumpy final stretch for Jessica.
It’s not the first time she has faced turbulent conditions during her 23,000 nautical mile odyssey. She battled 40-foot (12-metre) waves and six knockdowns during her journey, which took her northeast through the South Pacific and across the equator, south to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and around Southern Australia.
Jessica’s journey started from Sydney on October 18 last year and today marks day 210. Jessica will be greeted by her parents, relatives, friends, sponsors and her shore team, along with a host of media and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and NSW Premier Kristina Keneally.
Jessica is excited about her return to land and is just making the most of her last hours on the ocean before stepping foot on the dock of the Sydney Opera House.
" I'm so excited and everyone keeps telling me how big it is going to be. It will be so good to see everyone again. I can't wait," she said.
Jessica’s arrival is expected to rival the Sydney Harbour’s busiest days - the Boxing Day start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, New Year's Eve and Australia Day.
Today’s Sydney forecast is a mild day of about 22 degrees C and southwesterly winds.
In Australia, Network Ten and One HD are the exclusive broadcast partners and will air Jessica’s return from 11.00am-1.00pm, capturing the first interviews with Jessica. One will also broadcast the press conference.
For all the international fans, we will endeavour to post vision and quotes from Jessica’s arrival as soon as possible. But please be patient with us, as all the shore team will be out greeting Jessica in what is shaping as a monumental day.
-END-(From Jessica's website)
DID JESSICA WATSON'S TEAM "STUFF UP" ?
A great circle girdling Earth at the equator is: 21639 nautical miles
A great circle over the poles is: 21603 nautical miles
The average great circle distance around the earth is about 21621 nautical miles
The smoothed distance that I calculated Jessica to have sailed from her kmz file positions on Google Earth will have been about 21160 nautical miles
21603 - 21160 = 443 nautical miles less than a circumnavigation.
So Jessica only needed to sail 222 nautical miles further north of the equator and she would have satisfied the pedantic old codgers who say she didn't do a circumnavigation of the Earth.
Because Jessica made a late start due to her encounter with a bulk coal carrier perhaps her team were cutting corners to get Jessica back to the Southern Ocean before
winter conditions set in?
The trade mark of Pink Lady apples is NOT the words "pink lady" but their pink heart logo graphic containing the words pink lady as created by their artist.
They have absolutely NO claim on Ella's Pink Lady!
BULK CARRIERS GO FERAL OFF AUSTALIAN COAST
Australian Federal Police have arrested three men in connection with a bulk carrier that entered a restricted area of the Great Barrier Reef.
The Australian Federal Police say the MV Mimosa vessel entered a restricted passage in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park without permission last week.
Federal agents executed a search warrant on the Panama-flagged vessel at Bowen, in north Queensland, yesterday after receiving information from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Australian Maritime Safety Authority investigators.
Navigational equipment and charts were seized and three men have been arrested.
A 63-year-old South Korean man and two Vietnamese men aged 26 and 32 have been charged for allegedly entering a prohibited zone of the reef without permission on April 4.
The men will appear in Townsville Magistrates Court tomorrow and face a maximum fine of $220,000.
The AFP says it will also be alleged the vessel was not registered with the Reef Vessel Tracking System and failed to provide a pre-entry report and did not respond to attempts by authorities to contact them.
The incident comes after the Chinese coal carrier Sheng Neng 1 ran aground on Douglas Shoal off the Rockhampton coastline last Saturday, spilling oil and threatening an environmental disaster for the great Barrier Reef, photo of Sheng Neng 1 below:
(SMH, April 11, 2010)
In my distress I cried out to the Lord . . . . . . . .
Eagles The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.
The Lord is on my side, I am not afraid! What can people do to me?
The Lord is on my side as my helper.
I look in triumph on those who hate me.
It is better to take shelter in the Lord than to trust in people.
It is better to take shelter in the Lord than to trust in princes.
All the nations surrounded me.
Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.
They surrounded me like bees.
But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns.
Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away . . . Psalms 118
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