Category: Our Stories
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Raymarine’s New High-Performance Marine Radar
Press Release: Raymarine’s Magnum High-Performance Marine Radar Open Array Radar Brings Superior Target Tracking and Long-Range Identification for Blue Water Vessels WILSONVILLE, Ore. – May 9, 2018 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced today… […]
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South Georgia is free of rats
After 200 years of wreaking havoc on the local wildlife rats have at last been eradicated from the South Atlantic British island of South Georgia. The biggest rat eradication programme was declared a success this… […]
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The new Henri Lloyd Elite Offshore Collection
From Henri Lloyd: The Henri Lloyd Elite Offshore Collection is constructed from the latest in Elite fabric technology; ELITE//2.0 and is derived and evolved from the multi award winning Elite range. ELITE//2.0 dries 30% quicker… […]
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The plastic-hungry catapillar
An unlikely ally may be coming to our assistance in the shape of a lowly caterpillar. Developmental biologist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria in Spain was… […]
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Mass beachings: why do whales do it?
Although we’re always looking for modern culprits to blame for mass whale beaching it has to be said that many of them can be explained by natural phenomena, not least because they’ve been reported throughout… […]
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Leatherman Crunch
Long term test This was the first multitool with integral locking pliers, which effectively work like molegrips, allowing you to clamp up to a 1 in (25mm) diameter pipe, or nut. It takes a… […]
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Colin Baxter
With his ingenious usage, possibly through necessity, of old charts for painting seascapes, Colin Baxter gives us both a flat perspective and an astral overview of his subjects, fixing his paintings forever in a defined… […]
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Manx Nickeys – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie Disaster struck the Isle of Man in 1787 when much of the fishing fleet was destroyed in a particularly nasty gale at Douglas. These were the older scoute type of vessel, an… […]
