Feb 9 (Reuters) – At 23-years-old, Violette Dorange became the youngest sailor to finish the after completing the gruelling solo round-the-world yacht race on Sunday. Dorange completed the race in 25th place…
https://gcaptain.com/dorange-becomes-youngest-sailor-to-complete-vendee-globe/
(Bloomberg) — The owner of the shipping yard that built the Titanic is entering administration, a type of insolvency procedure in the UK, for the second time in five years. …
https://gcaptain.com/titanic-shipyard-owner-harland-wolff-set-to-enter-administration-this-week/
John Long (Flinders University) Imagine the seas off Peru, 6 million years ago. A group of long-nosed dolphins swam through the warm seawater, breaking the surface with occasional enthusiastic leaps…
https://gcaptain.com/megalodon-shark-ruled-the-seas-heres-why-it-went-extinct/
Sept 2 (Reuters) – A beluga whale that was suspected of spying for Russia after being discovered in Norwegian waters five years ago has been found dead, according to the non-profit organization…
https://gcaptain.com/russian-spy-whale-hvaldimir-found-dead-near-norway/
By Alexander Smith MARSEILLE, France, Aug 9 (Reuters) – In a darkened room below the ship-like “bridge” where race officials look out at the Mediterranean overseeing the Olympic sailing, a team of…
https://gcaptain.com/olympics-sailing-drones-deliver-birds-eye-view-for-kite-jury/
By Dani Morera Trettin SAO PAULO, July 24 (Reuters) – Sharks off the coast of Brazil’s party city Rio de Janeiro have tested positive for cocaine. The predators were consuming the potent…
https://gcaptain.com/sharks-off-rio-de-janeiro-test-positive-for-cocaine/
TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti, July 25 (Reuters) – Olympic surfers based in Tahiti will miss out on the spectacle of the Games’ opening ceremony on Friday, but might have trumped their Paris-based peers with…
https://gcaptain.com/olympic-surfers-score-with-awesome-floating-athletes-village/
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of Japan’s first domestically-built whaling mothership in more than seven decades said on Thursday it had no plans to send the…
https://gcaptain.com/japan-whaler-operator-says-it-has-no-plan-to-hunt-in-antarctic/
By Emma Pinedo MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) – Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a…
https://gcaptain.com/indigenous-groups-claim-stake-in-sunken-spanish-ship-cargo-off-colombia/
By Emma Pinedo MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) – Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a…
https://gcaptain.com/indigenous-groups-claim-stake-in-sunken-spanish-ship-cargo-off-colombia/