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The Leisure Review: March 2011 – WTF!

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:55:40 +0000

What rattled his cage?

Surprise, surprise, at the end of the day it’s the clubs’ fault. Funny how clubs are dismissed so easily in statistics thrown out before coffee and biscuits. It’s only ‘one club’ after all, and it wouldn’t do to call it, ” a minimum of three or four hundred young swimmers, a hundred masters swimmers, and forty or fifty water-polo players – per year!”, would it?

A positive note for the assembled with the ASA ‘dissing’ its membership and then, “mine’s a custard cream”.

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pushing big iron

admin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:21:29 +0000

РАЭ-54 с борта НЭС “Академик Фёдоров” from North Pole on Vimeo.

Out and about

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:57:00 +0000

good advice

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:00:54 +0000

victorian submarines

admin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:20:40 +0000

We tend to think of submarines as being a particularly 20th century object when we imagine the nuclear powered, nuclear missile carrying versions. Obviously however, they feature in the Jules Verne classic, ‘20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ and are, as such a definitive Victorian piece of technology, or to use the term currently in vogue, ’steampunk’.

Although the idea of a submarine began as early as the 16th century, it was in the Victorian era that the modern cigar with periscope form was developed with France’s Gymnote in 1889.

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Heeley Baths

admin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:12:09 +0000

I have not been drawn to architecture in a long while, but this is my local swimming baths and such a lovely, old building, I thought I’d give it a go:

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Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:01:05 +0000

A specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according to senior Navy officers.

Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War – Telegraph.

over land or sea or foam, the English Channel

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:45:24 +0000

Russians remember Kursk submarine disaster, 10 years on

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:51:59 +0000

Another year gone, ” above us the waves no more”.

The Kursk - courtesy of Wikipedia

Ceremonies are being held in Russia and on board its naval vessels to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster.

The submarine, one of the Russian navy’s most advanced vessels, sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August, 2000 with the loss of all 118 people on board.

An explosion of fuel from an old torpedo caused the disaster.

BBC News – Russians remember Kursk submarine disaster, 10 years on.

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Will All the Wild Fish Be Gone by 2048?

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:29:23 +0000

Fish are not like bison or farm-raised cattle. They’re out of sight—in floating net pens, spawning on coastal shelves, or swimming through unregulated offshore waters. So when you hear about collapsing tuna stocks, underwater feedlots, or certified sustainable salmon, it’s hard to appreciate what’s actually going on with the world’s fisheries because because fish are found in unseeable reaches of the world.

In his book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, the journalist Paul Greenberg combs the ocean to examine the fish that most frequently end up on our dinner table: salmon, bass, cod, and tuna. [

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