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The Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCC) for the Fiji Navy conducted a medevac of a sailor who was injured in the high seas last week.

The seriously injured sailor was on board a purse seiner and was quickly transported to Kiribati, Tarawa, and airlifted by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

According to the Fiji Navy, the case was quiet complicated given the current COVID-19 pandemic environment that countries faced.

The seriously injured sailor arrived safely to Fiji onboard the RNZ Air Force 130 Hercules and was handed over to the Ministry of Health officials who waited to receive the patient.

According to the Fiji Navy, the injured sailor was treated at the Intensive Care Unit in Lautoka.

The Fiji Navy acknowledged the New Zealand High Commission to Fiji, the New Zealand Air Force, Kiribati officials, Ministry Of Defence national Security and Policing, CAAF Fiji and hardworking staff members of the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical services for the prompt and timely assistance on the complex case.

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Navy rescues injured sailor on the high seas - Fiji Times

Data generated has a dual nature including military and many times the motive seems doubtful, says an official.

In the last few years, there has been an increasing trend of Chinese research and fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), according to officials.

There has been steady rise in the deployment of Chinese research vessels in the IOR. The general area of deployment has been observed in 90 degree east ridge and south-west Indian ridge, one official said on condition of anonymity. There are three research and survey vessels in the IOR.

They include Xiang Yang Hong 01 and Xiang Yang Hong 03, both of which also docked in the Colombo port last month and early this month respectively. Another survey vessel HAI CE 3301 which is near the Strait of Malacca and is known to have conducted extensive maritime surveys in the past in the Western Pacific Ocean.

In January, Xiang Yang Hong 06 had conducted research in the territorial waters of Sri Lanka. While research activities are allowed in international waters as per international regulations, the data generated has a dual nature including military and many times the motive of the vessels seems doubtful, said a second official. The Navy has been keeping a close watch on their movements in the IOR.

In the last four years, the number of the fishing vessels has gone up from 300 to around 450 on the high seas. The fishing activity has a seasonal behaviour wherein the vessels withdraw from the Arabian Sea before the onset of monsoon and return in September-October, the official said.

The concentration of fishing activities has been observed in the Central Arabian Sea and the South West Indian Ocean, officials said. They include trawlers from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. However, there is no presence in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

In the last few years, there have been significant number of occurrences near Somalia and near the Coast of Oman based on the recordings of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) onboard trawlers.

While India is one of the largest producers of fish, the catch is largely inland or cultivated. Deep sea fishing is a small fraction with limited availability of mechanised boats and other means as well as lack of policy framework to boost it.

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Increasing presence of Chinese research and fishing vessels in Indian Ocean Region - The Hindu

Is the word freight part of your everyday vocabulary? If not, you probably havent worked in a business or industry that needs to ship goods or commodities in large quantities. Thats what freight shipping (or freight transport) is all about, though.

But if freight is not part of your daily routine, should it matter to you at all? The answer is, yes. Without freight shipping, we might never have access to anything that isnt grown, mined, refined, produced, or otherwise available where we live.

Besides, the freight shipping industry has a long and fascinating story. Well share that and more in this article. So stay tuned.

Freight (or cargo) refers to goods or commodities in transit, most often for commercial purposesby water, air, or land. This could include anything, for example, automobiles or clothing ready for sale, or unprocessed milk or produce.

Freight is anything tangible that can be bought and sold in large quantities. In the shipping industry, there is a distinction between freight and parcels. The latter are smaller itemstransported alone or in small groups.

From ancient times through today, ocean shipping has been the predominant means of transporting goods and commodities. Thus, the term shipping is still used today for most types of bulk transport.

Ancient Egypt is known for launching maritime trade around 3200 BCE. Its large wind-powered ships traveled around the Mediterranean at first. Eventually, they connected with East Asian trade routes.

In later millennia, European nations like Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands, and France set sail to start trading with other countries. It also was for conquest.

The explorations began with the Mediterranean. Later, they ventured to the Indian Ocean, East Asia, and the North Atlantic, including the Caribbean.

With the Industrial Era, steamships and railroads superseded the traditional sail-driven ships. The latter had brought Europeans to the New World. The new conveyances introduced previously unseen degrees of power and convenience.

In the early 1900s, trucks were added to the railroads as a ground-shipping option. Then, in the 1950s, the Interstate Highway Systems construction turned trucking into viable competition for trains.

Between then and 1970, the percentage of ground shipping held by trucking grew from one percent to 20%. Then, in the 1990s, the trucking industrys deregulation increased the number from 18,000 (in 1975) to over 500,000 (by the year 2000).

Since then, many innovations in shipping and delivery services have altered the now-multifaceted shipping industrys role. Whats new includes next-day delivery and global door-to-door shipping.

Would you believe that shipping containers have only existed for 64 years? Yes, in 1955, trucking magnate andentrepreneur Malcolm P. McLean took on a challenge. Having grown frustrated with the slow process of transferring freight from trucks to ships.

He convinced the transportation innovator Keith Tantlinger to work with him on a more efficient way to store and transport cargo. Tantlinger came up with a locking system for the edges of existing cargo storage containers.

This closed-off individual container, allowing them to be moved easily from one transportation mode to another. McLean then acquired an oil tanker and customized it to accommodate a new modular form of freight transportation.

McLeans ship, the Ideal X, was up to the job. By the end of the decade, container shipping was in full gear. Numerous dockside cranes were moving shipping containers off trucks and trains and onto ships.

What is a pirate like in the early 2020s? Wed have to say that modern-day pirates are the same as pirates of old: criminals. Most of todays pirates operate differently, though, using speed boats out of port cities rather than roaming the high seas.

Consider modern-day pirate ships as you would think about vessels transporting terrorists. Todays pirates are not like Captain (Henry) Morgan of rum-flavored liqueur fame, the fictional Jack Sparrow, or any of the legendary pirates we know.

Pirates today have added cruise-ship tourists to their repertoire. They still do this by plunder, kidnapping, and often marooning, though. So some things dont change. Pirates are a threat to take seriouslyfor tourists and cargo haulers alike.

Pirates or not, ocean shipping is thriving today. Of the 108 trillion tonne-kilometers transported worldwide in 2015, 70 percent was by sea. Another 18 percent was by road, nine percent by rail, two by inland waterway, and less than a quarter of a percent by air.

Clearly, ships will continue to play an essential role in freight shipping in the years ahead. We marvel at the fact that they started global trade, and theyre still at the top of it.

Pirates notwithstanding, there are a lot of benefits to freight shipping using ocean ships. The wind-propelled sailing ships of olden times were probably the most environmentally friendly vessels to traverse the seas.

Still, compared to modern air and road transport, ships look pretty good. Plus, the ocean freight shippingindustry has also been considering alternative energy sources for their vessels.

Furthermore, each ocean-going freight vessel travels nearly 1.5millionmiles in a year. Thats what we would call an effective use of resources. So if youre looking for freight solutions that work, dont rule out good old-fashioned ships for your freight shipping needs.

We hope youve enjoyed this tale of shipping channels in the Ancient World, modern-day pirate ships, and a shipping container innovation that changed the world. Well bet that youll never again consider freight shipping boring.

And well remind you that without shipping containers and the freight they carry all over the world, you would be in some dire straits. Maybe living off the land in your village or bartering with people in the next community over.

By the way, we have some exciting innovations going on here and now in Arizona. Why not check out our website so you can catch up on the goings-on out here?

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Whoever said freight shipping is boring was clueless: Here's why - AZ Big Media

Stormy weather is expected for the entire viewing area today.

THE FORECAST

Today and Tonight:The first showers and storms have already started out ahead of a cold front. The cold front will push through from northwest to southeast sparking up stronger showers and storms as it goes. The rain will be heavy at times and will span the entire WBRZ viewing area. Areas northwest of Baton Rouge will see rain first and the capital city will get the heaviest rain in the late morning hours. Temperatures will be in the upper 70s between the rain. Since this rain will be associated with the cold front, there will be slightly cooler and drier conditions on the other side. Everyone will be mostly clear by the evening hours. Overnight temperatures will be in the upper 50s.

Thanksgiving:Wednesdays cold front will keep south Louisiana mostly clear from rain on Thanksgiving. Some of the humidity will linger, so the rain chances are not zero they are very low. A few stray showers will be possible, mainly south of Baton Rouge. Temperatures will be in the mid-70s in the afternoon and in the low 60s overnight.

Up Next:The pattern will repeat starting on Friday. The southerly flow will bring some rain on Friday afternoon with temperatures in the mid-70s. The moisture will continue to build for Saturday bringing prolonged periods of rain that will slowly push southeast along a cold front during the day on Sunday. Clear and cool conditions will be back on Monday. Not just clear but cool very cool. High temperatures will be in the low 60s and we may see our first freeze mid next week. Click here to see the 7-day forecast.

IN THE TROPICS

There are no active storms, but there is one area to watch in the Atlantic. The development chances are low, and it is tracking northeast away from the United States.

AREA TO WATCH

FROM THE NHC: A low pressure area located along a frontal system several hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda is producing disorganized cloudiness and showers, mainly east of its center. The low is expected to interact with an upper-level trough later today, detach from the front by Thursday, and then possibly acquire some subtropical characteristics on Friday while it moves southward over warmer waters. For more information on this system, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.

* Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent.

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Stormy conditions on both sides of Thanksgiving - WBRZ

Below Deck appears to be a TV show about rich guests enjoying vacations on the high seas, but it is really about the love lives of the yacht crew.

Below Deck may appear to be a TV show about rich and famous guests enjoying luxury vacations on the high seas, but as anyone who has watched the series will know, it is more like a soap opera about the lives and loves of the yachts crew.

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There have been so many crew relationships on Below Deck that it is difficult to keep track of them all, but there have been a few occasions when the guests have also got a little too flirty with the staff.

Check out the list below of the flirtiest guests Below Deck has ever seen.

Helen Hoey and her husband Richard Fiore appeared on Below Deck twice and made quite an impression on the crew, who were convinced that Fiore looked like he was in the mafia. It was their friend Brandy who got so drunk that she needed medical assistance, but Helen was far more concerned with chef Adrian Martin - and she wasnt just interested in his cooking! Hoey even talked Adrian into handing over his email address by saying that she wanted to take private cooking lessons from him.

Another guest who made a repeat appearance on Below Deck was Georgia Ricks, the down-to-earth businesswoman from Ireland. She and her friends certainly knew how to throw a party, and Georgia was insistent that Captain Lee Rosbach join in their fun. The captain seems to be irresistible to a certain type of older lady, and this was the case with flirty Georgia after she had downed a few complimentary cocktails. Captain Lee has been happily married to his wife Mary Ann for 45 years, so there is no chance of him being tempted by any of the guests.

Social media influencer Lyndi Kennedy appeared on Below Deck to enjoy a luxury break with her friends and then-boyfriend Jesse. However, it seems that Lyndi was more interested in chef Adam Glick than her real partner and spent much of the cruise hanging out in the kitchen.

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Later in the show, Jesse got down on one knee and proposed to Lyndi on the beach, though the answer was a hard no. Maybe Lyndi was already thinking about what was going to be served for dinner that night

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Below Deck: Most Memorable Flirty Guests On The Yachts - Screen Rant

The Safer tanker repair mission is meant to prevent a potential oil spill that could severely harm Red Sea ecosystems and shut Yemens Hodeidah port.

Houthi rebels in Yemen have given a long-awaited approval to a United Nations plan to visit and assess a deteriorating oil tanker off Yemens coast that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea.

Staff and equipment could be expected to arrive at the tanker by late January or early February, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday.

Hussein al-Azzi, the Houthi deputy foreign minister, on Sunday said the Houthi authorities had sent a letter confirming they would welcome the UN team of experts, adding they were waiting for confirmation of an arrival date.

It represents an important step forward in this critical work, Dujarric said, adding the letter was received on Saturday.

We still have to work out the exact deployment timeline because its going to depend on the market availability of the required equipment, he said.

When asked how this plan is different from the one the Houthis agreed to in July, Dujarric stressed the new accord, reached on Saturday, is more formal.

The objective of the UN mission is to assess the vessel and undertake initial maintenance as well as to formulate recommendations on what further action is required to neutralise the risk of an oil spill.

The UN has warned the Safer, stranded since 2015, could spill four times as much oil as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster near Alaska, but access to the vessel has been complicated by the war in Yemen.

The Iran-aligned Houthi group controls the area where the tankeris moored and the national oil firm that owns it.

Dujarric said the experts could undertake light maintenance. The UN has a plan, but now needs to procure equipment and permits which will take time, he explained.

The de facto authorities have assured us that they will provide all the necessary facilitation to ensure that the expert team can deploy as quickly as possible, he said.

The Safer, built in 1974, is moored off the Ras Issa oil terminal, 60km (40 miles) north of the key port of Hodeidah.

The area is held by the Houthis, but the high seas are controlled by a Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 against the group and has prevented it from selling oil.

UN and Houthi officials say water has entered the Safers engine room at least twice since 2015. The latest leak in May was plugged by Safer Corp divers and Houthi naval units.

Apart from corrosion to the ageing vessel, essential work to curb explosive gases in its storage tanks has been neglected for years.

The UN says a major rupture could severely harm Red Sea ecosystems and shut Hodeidah port, Yemens main entry point for imports and aid.

Independent studies show it could also affect countries as far away as Djibouti and Eritrea as well as Saudi Arabia and expose more than 8.4 million people many already vulnerable due to famine after years of war to heightened pollution.

In August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned against allowing the Safer to create a situation like the oil spill earlier this year in Mauritius or the explosion at the Beirut port, where neglected hazardous materials cargo exploded like a bomb, levelling neighbourhoods and killing nearly 200 people.

The agreement to allow access to the Safer tanker is welcome [and overdue]. Making it safe as soon as possible will prevent a potentially huge environmental disaster, Britains ambassador to Yemen, Michael Aron, said on Wednesday.

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Yemen: Houthis give UN permission to inspect stranded oil tanker - Al Jazeera English

A Swiss company is set to launch our planet's first space cleanup mission after the European Space Agency (ESA)said on Thursday they were signing a 86 million ($102 million) deal with the representatives of the Swiss start-up.

The firm, ClearSpace, hopes to launch a special satellite by 2025 that would be able to snatch pieces of space debris in the Earth's orbit. Currently, thousands of defunct satellites and many more smaller pieces of trash are circling the planet, posing an ever growing collision risk to working satellites and even the International Space Station.

"Imagine how dangerous sailing the high seas would be if all the ships ever lost in history were still drifting on top of the water," ESA Director General Jan Wrner said while first announcing the mission last December.

Luc Piguet, founder and CEO of ClearSpace, also warned that the danger will only grow due to plans to send up "hundreds or even thousands of satellites" in the low Earth orbit in the coming years.

"The need is clear for a 'tow truck' to remove failed satellites from this highly trafficked region," he was quoted as saying on the ESA website.

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The first-ever space cleanup mission, ClearSpace-1, would rendezvous with a discarded rocket fragment weighing some 112 kilograms (247 pounds). The discarded object, dubbed Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) helped bring up a satellite in 2013. The ESA says its sturdy construction would make it a good starting point, with the follow-up missions aiming to capture more challenging objects and then several bits of debris at once.

After securing Vespa, the ClearSpace-1 spacecraft will drag it out of orbit so it would burn up in the atmosphere.

ESA said that paying ClearSpace rather than developing its own space debris remover, marks a "new way for ESA to do business." While the agency would provide "key expertise" and pay for the first mission, the Swiss company is expected to cover the rest of the cost through commercial investors.

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Space trash cleanup: ESA signs off on first-ever mission - Deutsche Welle

Today we are well-equipped to ensure that a dastardly act like 26/11 doesnt occur again, says an official

The Navys Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC), the nodal agency for maritime data fusion set up after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, will soon become a National Maritime Domain Awareness (NDMA) centre, with all stakeholders having their presence there, two defence officials said on Thursday.

Today we are well-equipped to ensure that a dastardly act like 26/11 doesnt occur again. The IMAC will soon transform into a national NDMA centre, wherein it will be a multi-agency centre, one of them said.

Approved by the Defence Acquisition Council in 2012, the IMAC became operational in 2014 at a cost of 450 crore and is located in Gurugram. It is the nodal centre of the National Command Control Communication and Intelligence System (NC3I), which was established to link the operational Centres and lower echelons of the Navy and the Coast Guard spread across the countrys coastline, including the island territories. The IMAC tracks vessels on the high seas and gets data from the coastal radars, white shipping agreements, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) transponders fitted on merchant ships, air and traffic management system and global shipping databases.

After the 26/11 terror attack, all fishing vessels more than 20m long were mandated to have AIS transponders installed, while efforts were on to have such system on under 20m fishing vessels as well. At any point of time there are around 11,000-12,000 vessels present in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) as of now, which shows the magnitude of the challenge in tracking vessels.

As part of improving transparency on maritime traffic on the high seas, the Navy had been authorised to conclude white shipping agreements with 36 countries and three multilateral constructs. So far they have been concluded with 22 countries and one multilateral construct, of which 17 and the one multilateral agreement had been operationalised, another official said.

Under Phase-I, 46 coastal radar stations were set up. Phase-II of the coastal radar chain network, under which 38 static radar stations and four mobile radar stations were being set up by the Coast Guard and they were in advanced stage of completion, the official stated.

In 2018, the Information Fusion Centre Indian Ocean region (IFC-IOR) was set up within the premises of the IMAC to coordinate with regional countries on maritime country and act as a regional repository of maritime data. It presently has linkages with 21 partner countries and 22 multi-national agencies across the globe.

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Navys Information Management and Analysis Centre to become national maritime domain awareness centre - The Hindu

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San Diego is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States. Its known for its beautiful weather, stunning beaches and fun venues. Even the winter months can be a great adventure, even if you cant get in the water. You can still enjoy sailing tours of San Diego, the world-renowned zoo and the beaches. Here are some winter activities that your entire family will love.

Enjoy local artisans who provide culinary delights, wine and beer, fashion and art in this marketplace that focuses on San Diego culture. Take your time to browse through the shops. Enjoy a meal. Try out a new brew.

A San Diego boat charter gets you out on the ocean to take in the great weather and to get closer to nature. Its almost a given that youll see whales, dolphins and sea lions and a lot more. Whales migrate through the area in the winter to get to warmer waters.

The San Diego zoo is internationally recognized as one of the best zoos in the world. Its a wonderland of animals and botanicals that enjoy the mild climate. You could spend days taking in all the zoo has to offer.

It may be a bit too cold to swim, but the beaches have so much to offer beyond water sports. The best time of day to enjoy the beach is sunset when Mother Nature takes out her palette and paints a beautiful sky. Winter is a great time to explore the tide pools when there are more low tides to bring in sea life.

Take a drive through one of the scenic highways to catch the best views of the coast. Start in Point Loma, pass through Harbor Island and stop in Ocean Beach to walk the pier.

Balboa Park is home to gardens, trails, performing arts and 16 museums. Even if you only walk around to enjoy the architecture, theres plenty to do and see. Its an exciting place with plenty to keep you busy for your entire visit.

Grab a margarita in this section of town that features traditional Spanish Architecture and authentic Mexican cuisine. Enjoy the walking tour that lets you learn about the birthplace of California.

Hop on/off of a trolley that takes you around to the best San Diego has to offer. During the winter season, you can enjoy night tours to see the lights. Let someone else do the driving and give you information about the area to help you know the best spots to explore.

Ride an antique carousel. Enjoy a picnic. Fly kites. On the weekend, you can even listen to live music in the park.

Enjoy private dining San Diego on a boat that lets you enjoy ocean views, classic cocktails and a fine-dining experience on the high seas.

Schedule your magical night now.

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A steady increase has been seen in Chinese research and fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean region, something that can be a cause of concern given how they have been involved inillegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and data collecting.

Deployment of the Chinese research vessel has been observed in the ninety-degree east ridge and southwest Indian ridge. In the last few weeks, 3 Chinese research vessels have been seen in the region.

When it comes to Chinese fishing vessels in the high seas, around 300 to 450 have been seen in the last four years. Largely, fishing activity has been a seasonal behavior as they withdraw from the Arabian sea prior to the onset of monsoon and return in September to October period.

The IUU, involving China's distant water fishing (DWF) has been depleting fishing resources from areas near North & South Korean and Japanese waters to as far off as Latin America and West Asia.

Most of the areas Chinese vessels are fishing in the Indian ocean are international water, outside of the exclusive economic zone of any country, but since it is unregulated, it impacts the ecosystem in surrounding waters as well. Distant water fishing is heavily subsidized by Beijing.

The 2-way vessel traffic between Pakistan and China via the Indian ocean has also been significanteven as both countries grow engagement.The number of vessels going from China to Pakistan stands at 100 vessels per year, while the number of vessels coming from Pakistan to China stands at 50 per year.

Earlier this year, a Karachi-bound ship with Chinese crew was detained at Gujarat's Kandla port and after the inspection was found to carry an autoclave, used in the ballistic missile. The development raised eyebrows in Delhi and was quick to convey its concerns on the issue since the item was on India's dual-use export list.

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Steady increase in Chinese vessels in Indian Ocean, 100 ships travelling to Pakistan every year - DNA India