We usually don’t run videos as feature stories, but this is just an incredibly scary look at how things can go wrong very quickly. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6h_qNDINhU
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A high-powered investment firm has been meeting with Miami city officials to explore redeveloping the historic, but now decrepit, Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key into a water-themed sports and amusement park. The Miami Herald reported that the group’s interest has come as the city is set to announce a potential operator for the stadium, which has been closed since 1992, later this year. Apparently there’s growing political support for renovating the landmark stadium. The city’s current plan is aimed at renovating and operating the stadium as a concert and performance center. But the new proposal, from the Crxsspark group,…
We now have new photos and details about the $1 million, 80-foot Sunseeker Predator that sank three miles off St. Augustine Beach, Florida, on Memorial Day weekend. The St. John’s County Fire and Rescue has a picture that shows the bow of the sinking yacht with a gaping hole. It also has a picture of a rusted box-like metal structure, an offshore drain pipe marker, with what appears to be a piece of white fiberglass wedged in a rubber strip. The top edge of the marker also has a large scrape, and the sign on top has been pushed back.…
OTAM, the boutique Italian builder, is completing its new 90 GTS the flagship of its Fast and Iconic series. The new OTAM will make its public debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September. OTAM, with its yard in Genoa, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year; it’s made about 90 fast and iconic performance yachts, with a fleet that now stretches from 45 to 130 feet. The company says the new 90 GTS is a combination of space, style and luxury, with a lot of custom touches. The helm, for example, is inspired by Formula 1 race cars, with…
Delft 2024 boat unveiling.
A team of students from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands will try to demonstrate the power of green energy by driving a hydrogen-powered foiling boat across the English Channel from Dunkirk to England next month. The 23-student team from Delft has designed the zero-emissions monohull, called Aurora, that takes off, or foils, at 17 mph and cruises at 24 mph. Its fuel cell has 40 kW of power, and it carries three hydrogen tanks weighing 8 pounds each. Aurora is 26’ 2” long with a beam of 8’ 6” and weighs 3,968 pounds. The struts are 6’…
Azimut just launched its new 57-foot, eco-friendly Seadeck 6 at the Venice boat show, the debut of the Italian builder’s new series of low-emission, sustainable motoryachts. Azimut says the new Seadeck series yachts are built to reduce emissions by as much as 40 percent a year, when compared to conventional yachts the same size. The new Seadeck 6 provides zero-emissions at anchor or while cruising with the generator off. Its hotel mode is based on a 42-kWh lithium battery pack and an alternator connected to one of the three 480-hp Volvo IPS650 engines. At anchor, the zero-emissions mode can last…
Bering is on a roll. It launched one new long-range B80 explorer yacht at the end of May at its yard in Antalya, Turkey; a second one on June 3, and a third one is due at the end of the week. Alexei Mikhailov, Bering’s founder, said simply that the B80 “is becoming one of our most popular models.” The B80 has a steel displacement hull and an aluminum superstructure. Power comes from twin 350-hp Cummins diesels, producing a top speed of 10.5 knots and a range of more than 5,000 nm at 8.5 knots. It holds a massive 10,502…
The Coast Guard rescued seven adults and one child after their boat capsized on Saturday about 36 miles off Boca Grande, Florida. They had been hanging on to a cooler to stay afloat. (You can see the Coast Guard’s video in the link below.) The boaters called the Coast Guard on VHF channel 16 at 12:36 a.m. saying their 28-foot boat was sinking. They activated their EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon). A Jayhawk helicopter crew from the Coast Guard station in Clearwater used that signal, plus others from the boaters’ Personal Locator Beacons, to find them. The helicopter crew…
Here’s some more bad news on the hurricane front. The National Centers for Environmental Information just reported that water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are already just as hot, or hotter, than they are in August. That’s important because tropical storms and hurricanes feed on warm ocean temperatures; warmer water usually means more hurricanes. The hurricane season started on June 1 (and runs through November 30). But the Gulf waters had already grown hotter than usual before then. The water temperature off Butternut Key (between Key Largo and Islamorada) reached 88 degrees F in mid-May and was 90.1 on…
The prospect of wind turbines floating off the coast of Maine just got a lot closer this week. That’s because the federal government just approved an environmental review involving a research lease for 12 wind turbines floating about 28 nm southeast of Portland. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, part of the Interior Department, approved the review, which was necessary before the state could move forward with developing the turbines. “Floating wind technology can make offshore wind a reality in the Gulf of Maine,” said Elizabeth Klein, the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in the Interior Department.…