Oceans and Maritime Pursuits
Shipbuilder
Dramatization of a true weird story.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 02, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1930s, North America
Neptune Party
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 16, 2010 -
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Category: Military, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Parades and Festivals, Patriotism, Fetishes, 1940s, Gender-bending
Latitude Zero
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 29, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Cryptozoology, Geography and Maps, Movies, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Paranormal, Surgery, Science Fiction, 1960s, Asia, Weapons
Coney Island
Please note the pinheads on display.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 26, 2010 -
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Category: Holidays, Human Marvels, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Pop Culture, Public Humiliation, Recreation, 1940s
Oasis of the Seas
A cruise ship that holds "6,360 passengers and 2,160 crew"...? Now, that's pretty weird.Read about the launch of the ship here. Then watch the official promotional video.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 02, 2009 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Recreation, Technology, Travel, Sightseeing, World Records
Irony
While a 53-year-old man was competing successfully in the swimming section of the National Senior Games in Palo Alto, California, his 61-year-old brother was back home in Madison, Indiana, at the Yacht Club. When the brother called home to his mother to tell her he had just won a 500-yard freestyle, she told him his older brother had just been swept away in the rain-swollen Ohio River and could not be located. The Madison Courier. His body was later found.
Posted By: qualityleashdog - Mon Aug 10, 2009 -
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Category: Accidents, Boats, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Death, Exercise and Fitness, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Synchronicity and Coincidence
A Little Light Weirdness
First up is a story I have been trying to track down for over a week. Chichester Town Council in the UK were unable to remove a garbage bin that had been illegally dumped in a four-inch deep stream, because they did not have anyone qualified to use wellington boots (Chichester Observer).The three man crew of a specially eco-refitted yacht, had to be rescued from hurricane force gales on the outward leg of a voyage billed as the "Carbon Neutral Expedition" and designed to raise awareness of green issues. Their rescuer? An oil-tanker delivering 680,000 barrels of crude (The Guardian).
The CEO of the company that supplies and installs most of the speed cameras for the UK Highways Agency has been banned from driving for six months after he was caught speeding at over 100 mph (The Times).
Sikhs serving in the UK police force are looking to develop a bulletproof turban so that they can meet the requirement to wear protective headgear of the force's armed response units without having to break their religious prohibition not to remove them (The Telegraph).
Finally, plans for a Berlin Monument of National Unity, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, had to be scrapped after the spoilsport jury rejected all the entries as too weird. Not one of the 538 submissions from members of the public, which included a 30 meter high gilded banana, a German version of the Statue of Liberty holding a Rubik's cube, a group of Smurfs dancing on a recreation of a section of the wall, and a giant statue of a man pushing a shopping trolley, was accepted. The jury has now invited contributions from selected professional artists (The National).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Tue May 12, 2009 -
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Category: Art, Government, Regulations, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Religion
Heaven Help A Sailor
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 12, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Sexuality, 1940s, South Pacific, Tattoos
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