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The Fish Strike back!

A game fisherman is now after a life threatening encounter with a giant marlin. The marlin leapt from the sea, skewered him close to the heart, and then dragged him into the Atlantic.

That's gotta hurt! The fisherman hooked the four-metre marlin, that weighed more than 450 kilograms, during an angling tournament off the coast of Bermuda. Normally it would take hours to reel in the fish but the marlin launched itself across the width of the boat and impaled him with its bill.

He somehow got himself off the spike and doctors say if the fish had struck 2.5 centimetres on either side, it would have pierced the heart or lung and killed him. Lucky guy with the ultimate one-that-got-away story! Boating-power and Boat Information

Simrad Launch New EPIRB's

Simrad Yachting has launched their new range of Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) that come with either a manual or automatic release. The new Models EP50 and EG50 EPIRBs will activate and start transmitting automatically when coming in contact with water. They emit on 406MHz Distress Alert with 121.5MHz Homing Beacon for rapid. they also have a high-power strobe light also gives visual recognition. The Simrad EG50 also incorporates a 16 channel GPS for precise position accuracy. Boating-power and Boat Information

New From Mastervolt

Mastervolt have come out with a new, and very compact, low rpm 25/30 kW generator. The new genset is installed with a new sound shield (that is used for all Ultra models), to give very high levels of sound suppression.

Grisly Yacht Find

A 6m yacht found drifting 70 nautical miles off Ragged Point in Barbados was boarded and Barbadian coastguard officers found the gruesome desiccated corpses of 11 young men. The partially petrified bodies from salt water, sun and wind. The French designed yacht. The story is that the victims had sailed some 4 months previously from the Cape Verde islands, and had been bound for the Spanish and European Canary Islands. Barbados police state cause of the deaths as starvation and dehydration. This African exodus into Europe continue unabated with several incidents such as this. Boating-power and Boat Information

Pirates Attack

Two warships were heading towards the Yemeni coast this Sunday to help a US-flagged yacht under attack by pirates. The sailing vessel the “Tir Na Nog” has 3 people on board, and was being attacked in the Gulf of Aden, some 80km off the Yemeni coast.

New From Navionics

Navionics has just launched the 3rd generation of Land & Sea Platinum chart software. The new Platinum edition is said to combine detailed street maps with Navionic’s award-winning Platinum cartography.

Drifting Catamaran Hull Found

The abandoned catamaran hull of the yacht designer Richard Woods has been found by some tuna fisherman in the Pacific some 1000 miles from Acapulco having drifted more than 1100 miles in just 10 weeks. Evidently the first salvors stripped out all the electronics, mainsail, boom and more. The owner and crew were airlifted back in January during a violent storm off Mexico. Boating-power and Boat Information

How Seaworthy is Your Boat?

According to new UK statistics for 2004, some 3,870 people had breakdowns that were directly attributable to either machinery failure or fuel problems. Most of this could have been avoided simply by doing the routine maintenance. Also with the season about to start all boaters are asked to ensure they are physically fit and that they also have the required experience before heading out to sea. This includes chartwork and navigation skills, along with knowledge of rules of the road and also the proper operation of any electronic navigation aids installed on the boat. Another startling find is that some 30 of the 43 liferafts presented at an Ocean Safety weekend were overdue for servicing. As a note many put this off as it’s perceived as relatively expensive. It’s you and your crews life in the balance, so get it serviced! Boating-power and Boat Information

Silva Instruments Help Desk

Silva has announced that it will extend the opening hours of the technical support telephone line help desk for summer 2006. This line is available all agents, distributors and customers for questions on the set-up and operation of Silva instruments and equipment. The hours are for May 1- August 31, 2006, the line will be continuously manned Monday - Friday from 0800 hrs to 2000 hrs and Saturday - Sunday 0900 hrs to 1500 hrs (GMT 2 hours). The telephone number for Silva Technical Support is 00 46 8 623 43 55 and is available in both English and Swedish. Well done Silva! Boating-power and Boat Information

Does He know Something We don’t?

There is a fellow in The Netherlands who has built a replica of Noah’s Ark. This huge wooden vessel is being built near Schagen, 45 km north of Amsterdam. Given that the original is some 150 cubits long by 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide makes it nearly 70 metres long, around 13.5 metres high and 9.5 metres wide this smaller replica is still large. The ark is constructed with American cedar and Norwegian pine - on top of a steel hull. The cost of the non-profit project is around a million euro. Evidently he has started shopping for animals. Boating-power and Boat Information

Another Amazing Survival Story

Two people have amazingly survived for close to 2 months at sea in a small open boat in the South Pacific. They went missing off the Solomons Islands and were eventually rescued by a fishing boat off Vanuatu. Evidently they were heading across to Dai Island from the island of Malaita in an open motorboat on January 31 and never arrived. Searches failed to find them in bad weather at the time and they were presumed lost. Boating-power and Boat Information

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