If here at SeaWayBLOG we should choose a computer mouse we certainly would choose this... It's orange and it's related to water... I cannot ask for more.
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IRC Racing Division start
Photo by: Rolex / Carlo Borlenghi
The Rolex China Sea Race, a RORC Offshore Category 1 race, has started today in Hong Kong. It will finish in Subic Bay in the Philippines after 565 miles. As usual with Rolex Events you could find pictures of the race updated everyday at REGATTANEWS.COM
John Herer, the actor who starred as Captain Birdseye in the adverts for fish fingers for more than thirty years has died.
Captain Birdseye is the advertising mascot for the Birds Eye frozen food brand founded by Clarence Birdseye. Appearing in numerous television and billboard commercials, he has been played or modelled by various actors and is generally depicted as a clean living, older sailor with a white beard, dressed in merchant naval uniform and with a seafaring accent. In Germany he is known as "Käpt'n Iglo", in France as "Captain Iglo", in Portugal as "Capitão Iglo", in Italy as "Capitan Findus", In Spain as "Capitan Pescanova" and in The Netherlands as "Kapitein Iglo".
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Reuters, the world main news photoagency, has recently published a photogallery called "Water World". Maybe they want to underline the fact that in two days it will be the World Water Day (22 march) or perhaps they simply realized that recently so many things related to water had happened (reading this blog it's an easy way to attest it), however they put together some of their best photos from the last 3-4 months creating a wonderful voyage in the world of water (which in my opinion could become a wonderful book). Here below I've posted a brief selection just to appetize you. To see the entire gallery visit the official gallery: Water World. I heartily recommend it.
All the pictures © REUTERS
The main characteristic of reportage pictures is that the images should speak for themselves, with no need of words, and in my opinion these Reuters pictures really do it so that I havn't included any caption. However if you're curious about what these pictures are about, read all the infos in the official gallery: Water World
The story I'm going to tell you happened on February 2007 and probably some of you have already heard about it. The Infinity Tower (that you can see in the two picture above, is one of the many huge skyscrapers and futuristic architectural projects that are currently under construction in Dubai. This tower in particular, when finished, will be 330m high (the tallest helix-shaped building ever) with 80 floors and will stand in the marina district. This closeness to the sea (just a few meters is the main reason of the accident you can see perfectly described in the pictures below.
A crack opened in the diaphragm wall adjacent the marina and the water started sneaking in, growing rapidly as the crack enlarged. All the workers managed to escape and after 4 minutes the groundwork was totally flooded. This accident had caused one year delay in the construction
