Random News of the Day!

[Lost But Happy]

HOLY CRAP!!!

 

[Stand Up]

Electric boats are coming, like it or not.

https://unionrayo.com/us/new-electric-boats-breaking-market/

 

[Stand Up]

Maybe if I start a go fund me page, I could get me one of these...

https://evmagazine.com/sustainability/electric-boats-lead-the-way-in-sustainable-marine-innovation

 

[Lost But Happy]

Electric boats are coming, like it or not.

https://unionrayo.com/us/new-electric-boats-breaking-market/

And they used every buzz word in the book.

 

[airshot]

Electric boats are coming, like it or not.

https://unionrayo.com/us/new-electric-boats-breaking-market/

Yep....the perfect match...water and electricity !! Haven't we learned our lessons yet ?

 

[LDUBS]

Maybe if I start a go fund me page, I could get me one of these...

https://evmagazine.com/sustainability/electric-boats-lead-the-way-in-sustainable-marine-innovation

If you have the odd $700 million laying around you can get a Tesla Model Y yacht. Uses hydro and solar for charging, but only 130' long so you sacrifice some comfort.

 

[Crazyboat]

Hydrogen is a better application for a boat.

 

[Stand Up]

If you have the odd $700 million laying around you can get a Tesla Model Y yacht. Uses hydro and solar for charging, but only 130' long so you sacrifice some comfort.

My nickname is Stingy McMooch. That should give you an idea of how close I am to buying the Tesla.
If you ever need someone to come and visit you, in the middle of winter, and sponge whatever I can like room and board, fishing trips and beer afterwards, I'm your man.

 

[LDUBS]

My nickname is Stingy McMooch. That should give you an idea of how close I am to buying the Tesla.
If you ever need someone to come and visit you, in the middle of winter, and sponge whatever I can like room and board, fishing trips and beer afterwards, I'm your man.

If I ever get the Tesla yacht, you will have an open invitation.

 

[airshot]

I am having my people contact their people....I will let you know....lol...

 

[Stand Up]

CANADIAN SHIP FINDS ILLEGAL FISHING ON NORTH PACIFIC PATROL​

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• National Post
• 29 Oct 2024

The Canadian Coast Guard ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier is back in its home port in Victoria after its crew swept the North Pacific for unreported and unregulated fishing. The coast guard said in a statement Monday that its officers and support personnel found illegally harvested shark fins, evidence of fishing in closed season, unreported catches and instances of marine pollution. It said the ship patrolled about 20,000 kilometres and it was the first opportunity to enforce the new ban on Pacific salmon retention, which has been in force for the North Pacific since July. The statement said it also encountered a number of ships with their monitoring systems turned off, commonly known as dark vessels. The excursion also marked the first port visit of a Canadian Coast Guard vessel to Japan.

 

[Lost But Happy]

CANADIAN SHIP FINDS ILLEGAL FISHING ON NORTH PACIFIC PATROL​

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• National Post
• 29 Oct 2024

The Canadian Coast Guard ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier is back in its home port in Victoria after its crew swept the North Pacific for unreported and unregulated fishing. The coast guard said in a statement Monday that its officers and support personnel found illegally harvested shark fins, evidence of fishing in closed season, unreported catches and instances of marine pollution. It said the ship patrolled about 20,000 kilometres and it was the first opportunity to enforce the new ban on Pacific salmon retention, which has been in force for the North Pacific since July. The statement said it also encountered a number of ships with their monitoring systems turned off, commonly known as dark vessels. The excursion also marked the first port visit of a Canadian Coast Guard vessel to Japan.

Hmmmm....Now I wonder who would illegally fish sharks for their fins?

 

[Stand Up]

We were 17 miles from Mabou when we got the fish. And eight miles away when the shark attacked.​

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• National Post
• 30 Oct 2024
• A.D. MACLEAN, CAPE BRETON TUNA FISHERMAN, DESCRIBING THE GREAT WHITE SHARK THAT RECENTLY TOOK A COUPLE OF BITES OUT OF HIS PROFITS.

Cape Breton tuna fisherman A.D. Maclean had encountered sharks before, but it wasn’t until mid-October that he encountered his first great white.
Similar to Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, this shark was attracted by the tuna that Maclean and his crew had just caught.
After catching a tuna, says Maclean, it’s necessary to “swim the fish” near the boat. That lowers its body temperature and keeps the meat from spoiling, he explains.
He and his crew did that with their catch as they pointed their boat, Makin’ Wake, toward their home port of Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
But as they motored home, a great white shark struck, taking a big bite out of the tuna.
“It took the whole tail off the fish,” says Maclean.
But the shark was still hungry. “It came up a second time and took a bite out of the side.”
The approach of the Great White behind the boat caused a ripple of excited energy among the crew. “We were confused at first — didn’t know what to do in the moment. We had to get the tuna in before the shark came back a third time.”
Maclean estimates the shark weighed between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds.
Maclean’s son, Connor, videoed the shark’s approach. His wife Valerie posted the video on her Facebook page.
In the last eight to 10 years, fishermen like Maclean have encountered more sharks. “You’ll hear of a tuna being bit,” he says.
He recounts a story about a great white that came up and slapped the side of a P.E.I. fishing boat. Was the shark intent on sinking the boat? Was it after the fishermen? No, says Maclean. “They had bait out, too.”
A lobster boat found a great white eating a whale off Inverness, Cape Breton, in June, he says.
He thinks the warming ocean is drawing more and more great white sharks north. He pointed out the temperature of the ocean when he was speaking with the National Post. “It’s 13 degrees Celsius. It was in the 20s in the summer. It’s getting warmer.”
The movements of tuna may provide insight into the growing shark population. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas has tagging programs that do just that, keeping track of the tuna population and providing scientific-based stock management advice.
One tagging program is out of the University of Maine, says Maclean. Tags allow tuna tracking via satellite.
The crew noticed a telltale tag on the tuna they caught. It was tagged within half a mile from where we caught it, they found out later.
The movements of sharks in the North Atlantic are under study, too. One research program is out of Boston University.
Both tuna and shark were encountered close to Mabou.
“We were 17 miles from Mabou when we got the fish. And eight miles away when the shark attacked.”
While the appearance of a Great White can be strangely exhilarating, the damage it does takes a bite out of Maclean’s bottom line. “It’s a big loss,” he says.
The buyer was able to salvage 400 pounds of the tuna and sell it to a customer in Japan, he says.

 

[Stand Up]

MAN CHARGED IN FATAL BOAT COLLISION NEAR KINGSTON​

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• National Post
• 31 Oct 2024

A man is facing multiple charges in connection with a boat collision near Kingston, Ont., that killed three young people on the Victoria Day long weekend. Five other people were injured when a speedboat ended up on top of a fishing boat on Bobs Lake shortly after 9:30 p.m. on May 18. Ontario Provincial Police said Wednesday a 44-year-old man from South Frontenac, Ont., was charged with three counts each of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing death, dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, impaired operation causing death and impaired operation causing bodily harm. A 21-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man from South Frontenac, along with a 22-year-old woman from Elginburg, Ont., were pronounced dead at the scene.

 

[Stand Up]

Hiker survives weeks lost in B.C. wilderness​

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• National Post
• 28 Nov 2024
• Tiffany Crawford

NORTHERN ROCKIES (FORT NELSON) RCMP / THE CANADIAN PRESSSam Benastick went missing more than five weeks ago in northern B.C. and was found alive on Tuesday.
• A hiker who went missing in the northern B.C. back country has been found after surviving more than five weeks in the freezing northeastern mountains.
Northern Rockies RCMP said Wednesday they were notified that 20-year-old Sam Benastick, who was reported missing on Oct. 19, had been located.
The experienced outdoorsman went hiking and camping on Oct. 7 in Redfern-keily Provincial Park, located about 250 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John, but failed to return home to Kamloops on Oct. 17.
On Tuesday two people who were headed to the Redfern Lake trail for work spotted a man walking toward them. When they approached him, they recognized him as Benastick, the RCMP said.
The two men took him to hospital where police attended and confirmed he was the missing man.
Benastick told police that he stayed in his car for a couple of days and then walked to a mountainside creek, where he camped for 10 to 15 days. He then moved down the valley, and built a camp and shelter in a driedout creek bed.
“Finding Sam alive is the absolute best outcome. After all the time he was missing, it was feared that this would not be the outcome,” said RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Madonna Saunderson in a statement. The temperature has been below -20 C over the past week in the park, according to the Weather Network, and is expected to be -30 C on Friday.
Search-and-rescue and police dog services aided in the search for Benastick.
Mike Reid, general manager of the Buffalo Inn in Pink Mountain, B.C., where Benastick’s family stayed during the search efforts, said he spoke to the hiker’s father, who told him the young man had been found.
Benastick’s uncle told CBC his nephew was suffering from frostbite and some smoke inhalation.