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For anyone wanting reference books on understanding marine weather and storm tactics at sea Steve Dashew has generously made his two volumes on these two subjects available in PDF format, for free to all mariners. The books, Mariner's Weather Handbook,and Surviving The Storm can be downloaded at the following link. Scroll to the bottom of the written article to the book icons and the download links to obtain these valuable references. Thanks, Steve!…

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A Voyage To Greenland In “Polaris”, Part 1

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A Voyage To Greenland In “Polaris”, Part 2…

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By PITA LIGAIULA, Associated Press Pita Ligaiula, Associated Press – Sat Nov 27, 1:11 pm ET

SUVA, Fiji – For more than 50 days, the three boys slurped rainwater that puddled in the bottom of their tiny boat, gobbled flying fish that leaped aboard and prayed for salvation.

Etueni Nasau and his two cousins almost gave up hope they would survive as they bobbed in their aluminum dinghy across the South Pacific for more than seven weeks, before a fishing trawler…

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Doctors sound TSA germ alert

Dangers include syphilis, lice, viruses, ringworm



Posted: November 24, 2010

9:09 pm Eastern



By Bob Unruh

© 2010 WorldNetDaily





Syphilis, lice, gonorrhea, ringworm, chlamydia, staph, strep, noro and papilloma viruses all are part of the possible fringe benefits when airline passengers next go through a full hands-on pat-down by agents of the federal government's Transportation Security Administration, according to… Continue

"Brian Handwerk

for National Geographic News

Updated November 24, 2010

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Rocket Loaded With Solar Sail and Satellites Blasts Off From Alaska

By Mike Wall

SPACE.com Senior Writer

posted: 19 November 2010

08:25 pm ET

This…

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Regards and felicitations, Captain,

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Thanks for responding to my post about diesel fuel additives. Forums such as these are so very…

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