Porthole
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Porthole 21 Aug 20
Friday | Aug 21 2020MANY tourism businesses have had to pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic, and one small ferry operator in Dorset, UK, is certainly making the most of these strange times.
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Porthole 20 Aug 20
Thursday | Aug 20 2020SOME people will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure they do not catch coronavirus, but one Latvian man recently employed a foolproof method – he went five months on the ocean without seeing another human being.
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Porthole 19 Aug 20
Wednesday | Aug 19 2020A ROBOT boat has just completed its three-week mission in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Porthole 18 Aug 20
Tuesday | Aug 18 2020FLOTILLAS in honour of United States President Donald Trump have featured in porth0le before (CW 04 May), and the most recent Tampa Bay “Trumptilla”, which took place on the weekend is aiming to break the record for largest boat parade.
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Porthole 17 Aug 20
Monday | Aug 17 2020TERRITORIAL waters are a hot-button issue in this part of the world, and scientists have recently used satellites to catch a fleet of Chinese fishing vessels doing what they shouldn’t have been in North Korea.
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Porthole 14 Aug 20
Friday | Aug 14 2020SEATTLE startup Zin Boats has reinvented the electric speedboat in a bid to become the “Tesla of the sea”.
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Porthole 13 Aug 20
Thursday | Aug 13 2020MAP nerds everywhere were sent into a spin last week when Google inadvertently renamed the Brisbane River ‘Ithaca Creek’. (pictured).
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Porthole 12 Aug 20
Wednesday | Aug 12 2020IT seems Melbourne has become so quiet the city seals are taking over.
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Porthole 11 Aug 20
Tuesday | Aug 11 2020WE all miss being out on the water, but this is a bit much!
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Porthole 10 Aug 20
Monday | Aug 10 2020A German u-boat has been surveyed for the first time, more than 100 years after it sank.