Orca Interactive plans AIM flotation
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Emblaze (LSE: BLZ) group company Orca Interactive means to float stock on London&#39;s AIM stock exchange. Orca develops flexible solutions for broadband commercial television over the Internet.
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By Sam Harris  Dave Shields proved there were fish to be caught when he landed a brace of cod weighing in at 10lb 2oz and 2 1/2lb using lug and mussel.
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Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear.
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Can cruise ships and nature coexist? An experiment gets under way in Cozumel to test the idea.
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By Grumbles, Benjamin H  Since tlrsl setting sail in 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA'sl new ocean survey vessel (OSV) Bolii has been testing water quality, teaching students and monitoring ("or trends in coastal and ocean health.
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GREAT Universal Stores, the owner of Argos, revealed today that it was seeking a partial flotation of its South African business the Lewis Group.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space shuttle Atlantis is on track for a planned Thursday landing pending the resolution of two final issues, though mission managers do not expect either to impact the orbiter&#39;s Earth return.
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It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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US scientists have pinpointed a new set of predators responsible for dwindling fish stocks - people who fish for fun. They report online in the journal Science today that recreational fishermen catch almost
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When environmental protestors boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean, images of the action quickly flashed on the world&#39;s TV sets, followed by photos from the Japanese ship after the protestors were taken into custody. Getting these images out is crucial if either side is to win the global PR battle, but doing so can be problematic when you&#39;re at sea, thousands of kilometers from the nearest cell phone network or broadband connection.To solve their problems, both sides take advantage of digital video and photo technology to get the footage, then look to the skies and tap into the global satellite communications network run by London-based Inmarsat. The company specializes in providing voice and data services to maritime vessels and other users at sea, or in remote areas that traditional telecommunications networks don&#39;t reach.On Tuesday, as the protestors approached the Japanese whaling vessel &quot;Yushin Maru 2,&quot; a digital video camera was rolling onboard the small inflatable craft sent from the Sea Shepard Conservation Society&#39;s ship, &quot;Steve Irwin.&quot; The camera caught the moment when two of the conservationists jumped aboard, and within seconds the video was speeding back toward the Steve Irwin on the inflatable.Once back onboard, the video was fed into a Macbook Pro laptop and edited into a 13MB MPEG2 clip that was just 12 seconds long, said Jonny Vasic, a spokesman for the society.&quot;One of our big tools in these whale wars is these video and digital still cameras. They really help us expose the bad guys,&quot; said Vasic.The clip was then sent via satellite to the society&#39;s FTP server and made available to the world&#39;s media.The ship&#39;s satellite communications system is a $35,000 &quot;Sailor Fleet 77&quot; unit that was donated to the society last year by Australia&#39;s Bluetongue Brewery. It supports up to 256Kbps&#160;transmission, although actually getting that speed depends on several factors. In calm seas, a gyro-based mount keeps the antenna pointed at the satellite, but in heavy seas, maintaining a reliable signal can be a problem. Keeping the link gets increasingly difficult as the ship goes further south because the satellite appears very low on the horizon.&quot;It&#39;s about 90 percent reliable,&quot; said Vasic.Crew onboard the &quot;Steve Irwin&quot; are also using the satellite link to attempt to send e-mail to the Japanese ship, in addition to marine-band radio calls, in an attempt to secure the release of their two members, who remain aboard the &quot;Yushin Maru 2.&quot;The Institute of Cetacean Research, the Tokyo-based organization that operates the &quot;Yushin Maru 2,&quot; declined to comment on the technology at its disposal, citing security reasons.&quot;I&#39;m sorry to say, you might be Greenpeace posing as a journalist,&quot; said Gabriel Gomez, a spokesman for the group in Tokyo, when contacted by telephone on Thursday.The systems employed by the Japanese group don&#39;t appear as sophisticated. Only a handful of still images from the ship have been released by the group to the media, and they are a relatively low VGA (640 pixels by 480 pixels) resolution. No video has been made available.The satellite communications technology being employed by the two ships is increasingly being used by media, governmental and relief organizations in remote areas. Earlier this month, Cable News Network (CNN) won a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for its satellite news gathering system based on Inmarsat&#39;s BGAN broadband system. The BGAN system offers a standard IP (Internet Protocol) connection as fast as 492Kbps and is small enough that it can be built into a backpack.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- The Dow Chemical Company and The Glad Products Company today announced the donation of 380,000 trash bags to The Ocean Conservancy for use in the Conservancy's 21st annual International Coastal Cleanup day this coming Saturday, September 16th.
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A South African shark-spotting program to warn surfers and swimmers about the approach of great whites is to be expanded, environmentalists said Thursday, though they added the sharks have more to fear than humans.
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November 30 - PORTLAND - The federal government on Tuesday unveiled its new plan to protect Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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The Navy considers deploying dozens of trained dolphins and sea lions -- capable of detecting mines and cuffing rogue swimmers -- in Washington state. By the Associated Press.