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NEWS ABOUT: Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean stories: 35 news summaries

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 Manatee Poo Forces 
 Fla. Beach Closing 

'It was disgusting, but mystifying,' one resident says

Oct 9, 09 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Florida beach has reopened after a deluge of manatee poo forced it to close. Vero Beach city employees spent hours burying what may have been a mile-long stretch of dung. Environmental officials blamed the mess on unusual wind patterns. “I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’... More »

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 Great White Sightings 
 Prompt Cape Cod Swim Ban 

For first time, officials tag Atlantic great white sharks

Sep 6, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Several Cape Cod beaches have banned swimming this weekend after four great white sharks were spotted prowling the waters, the Cape Cod Times reports. Shark expert Gregory Skomal and his crew tagged two of them—described as 8 and 10 feet long—with high-tech trackers. It was a rare instance... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • shark • Massachusetts • swimming • Cape Cod • great white shark

(Newser) - An El Niño has developed in the Pacific, a boon to Americans living near the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast who can expect fewer hurricanes as a result, the Palm Beach Post reports. The NOAA reported the conditions in June, and they could keep up through winter. “... More »

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severe weather • Atlantic Ocean • Pacific Ocean • El Nino • tropical storms • Georgia Tech • hurricane • forecaster

(AP) - Bodies recovered in the Air France disaster show multiple fractures in the legs, hips, and arms, a Brazilian official said today. Experts said such injuries suggest the plane broke up in the air, and a spokesman for Brazilian medical examiners said autopsies on some of the 50 bodies recovered so... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • plane crash • midair • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - Autopsy reports indicate that Air France flight 447 did not crash because of a terrorist strike, the Independent reports. Examinations of the first 16 bodies—all recovered whole—show no signs of explosion, fire, or penetration by shards of metal. The autopsy details, leaked to the Brazilian press this weekend,... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • plane crash • bodies • airplane • terrorist attack • Air France • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - An Italian woman who cheated fate when she missed her flight on the doomed Air France jet has been killed in a car crash, the London Times reports. Johanna Ganthaler and her husband were late to the Rio airport on May 31 and caught another flight the next day. The... More »

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France • Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • Austria • car crash • plane crash • Air France Flight 447 • coincidence

 Air France Tail Found 


Jun 8, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(AP) - Brazilian searchers found a large tail section from an Air France jet today, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that could help narrow the search for Flight 447's black boxes. A US Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data... More »

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black box • Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • United States • plane crash • US Navy • airplane • sonar • Air France Flight 447

 15 More Bodies 
 Found at Crash Site 

Searches also find large amount of aircraft wreckage

Jun 8, 09 2:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Searchers have recovered 15 more bodies from the Air France 447 crash site in the Atlantic, bringing the total to 17. Brazil's military also collected large amounts of the plane's "structural components," officials tell Reuters. "Hundreds of items are being found and being stored until we know... More »

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(Newser) - The Brazilian Air Force has recovered the first two bodies from the Air France crash, the BBC reports. They also found a suitcase and a backback with a laptop inside. “We confirm the recovery from the water debris and bodies from the Air France plane," an air force... More »

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Air Force • Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • plane crash • bodies • debris • search and rescue • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - The first Brazilian navy ship arrived on the scene where Air France flight 447 is thought to have gone down, but aviation officials aren't holding out much hope of finding the black boxes, reports the BBC. "We cannot rule out that we will not find the flight recorders,"... More »

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(Newser) - A missing Air France jet hit thunderstorms over the Atlantic, likely crashing and killing all 228 people on board, the AP reports. Half an hour after falling out of Brazilian radio contact, the Airbus A330 "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence”; Nicolas Sarkozy told families of those... More »

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 Air France Jet 
 Presumed 
 Lost  


Jun 1, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Air France flight that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean early today after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Paris is believed to have crashed, Reuters reports. Mechanical malfunctions kept the aircraft's crew from keeping in touch with air-traffic controllers after they reported serious turbulence about 4 hours into the flight.... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • Airbus • Rio de Janeiro • plane crash • Paris • Air France • Airbus A330 • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - Maine lobster prices are uncharacteristically low, leaving the industry unsettled on the eve of the all-important summer tourist season, the Portland Press Herald reports. Wholesale prices are as low as $3.25, and retail prices start at $5.50. But some aren’t worried by the mercurial interplay of supply,... More »

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Canada • Atlantic Ocean • fishing • Maine • Portland, Maine • lobster • commercial fishing

(Newser) - The star forecasters at Colorado State University are revising their predictions for the 2009 hurricane season down due to cooler ocean temperatures, Reuters reports. Between June and December, the Atlantic will see 12 tropical storms, six of which may develop into hurricanes. Two of those hurricanes could blow harder than... More »

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weather • Atlantic Ocean • Pacific Ocean • United States • El Nino • Colorado State University • tropical storms • hurricane • La Nina • forecaster

(Newser) - A helicopter ferrying workers to oil rigs off Canada’s Atlantic coast crashed into the ocean today, killing at least one, the Telegram of St. John’s, Newfoundland, reports. One passenger has been rescued, but 16 more remain lost. The chopper reported engine trouble prior to ditching about 40 miles... More »

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Canada • Atlantic Ocean • survivors • oil rig • offshore oil • helicopter crash • Newfoundland

(Newser) - Google has rebuffed a claim that Google Earth 5.0 helped uncover the lost city of Atlantis, vnunet reports. The undersea lines spotted by an engineer are not streets, a Google spokesperson said, but traces of boats gathering data with sonar technology. Google Earth has aided in other "amazing... More »

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 Did Google Ocean 
 Find Atlantis? 

Or just seabed measurements collected by boats?

Feb 20, 09 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - A mysterious grid of lines spotted by a British aeronautical engineer using Google Ocean may be the fabled lost city of Atlantis, experts tell the Telegraph. The rectangular region—roughly the size of Wales—is located near the Canary Islands in a region believed to be a likely spot for... More »

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 British, French 
 Nuclear Subs 
 Collide 

Investigators probing possible nuclear contamination

Feb 16, 09 2:48 AM CST
(Newser) - A probe into possible nuclear contamination has been launched after British and French  submarines carrying nuke warheads collided in rough seas in the Atlantic, reports the Telegraph. Both subs were seriously damaged in the collision earlier this month that occurred despite state-of-the-art technology on both vessels dedicated to protect against... More »

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United Kingdom • France • Atlantic Ocean • nuclear weapons • crash • submarine • Britain

 US Woman 
 First to 
 Swim Atlantic 

56-year-old American churns from Africa to Trinidad in 24 days

Feb 8, 09 6:24 AM CST
(Newser) - A 56-year-old American became the first woman to swim across the Atlantic, completing a 24-day journey from Africa's Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad, reports the BBC. Jennifer Figge of Colorado swam up to 8 hours at a stretch, protected by a cage to fend off sharks. She swam approximately 2,... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • swimming • athletics • broken records • Jennifer Figge

Freighters Must Brake for Endangered Whales Off US

Right whale get federal protection from speeding vessels

Dec 9, 08 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - A new US law may save the world’s 400 remaining North Atlantic right whales from their worst enemy—large ships. Mariners will have to slow to 11.5mph as they slice through parts of the mammal’s migration path between New England and Florida, the Boston Globe reports. Since... More »

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endangered species • Atlantic Ocean • New England • shipping • whales

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