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Topic: Sea explorers


  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Explorer of the Seas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Explorer of the Seas is one of five Voyager-class cruise ships from Royal Caribbean International.
On the February 26, 2005 sailing of Explorer of the Seas, 243 of the 3,252 guests onboard became sick with what Royal Caribbean identified as Norovirus.
Explorer Posts were supposed to have a well rounded program four activity fields: Adventuring in the outdoors, Getting along socially with others, Being of service to others, and Exploring lifework possibilities.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Explorer-of-the-Seas   (1066 words)

  
 Sea Explorers Diving School, MalĂ©, Maldives.
Sea Explorers is a P.A.D.I. 5 star Gold Palm resort, offering the complete range of P.A.D.I. courses from introductory dives to professional courses.
At SEA Explorers we have made an effort to keep our price as low as possible while still offering you the diving experience you desire.
Come with Sea Explorers and discover the wonderful reefs surrounding us and meet the incredible marine life.
www.seamaldives.com.mv   (288 words)

  
 Let's go out! In to the Sea! Sea Explorers of Korea
Sea Explorers of Korea is the only non-profit youth organization dedicated to instiling in our youths the importance of maritime preservation and cherishing our rich ocean heritage.
For the past 40 years, membership in the Sea Explorers has been, and willl continue to be an honor and a privilege for young Koreans.
Becoming a Sea Explorer will mean joining a 200,000 strong group, which will inherit various valuable traditions from previous members, which will ultimately remain with them for the rest of their lives.
www.sekh.or.kr /new/eng/intro01.html   (234 words)

  
  Explorers (1949-1958)
Explorer Posts were supposed to have a well rounded program four activity fields: Adventuring in the outdoors, Getting along socially with others, Being of service to others, and Exploring lifework possibilities.
Explorers also continued the use of the fatigue uniform that was started under Senior Scouting.
Now only Sea Explorers could earn Sea Explorer advancement and only Sea Explorer Advancement, Air Explorers were the only ones to earn Air Explorer advancement and only Air Explorer advancement, and Explorers in Posts and Troops were the only ones to earn Explorer advancement and only Explorer advancement.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Falls/8826/explorers.html   (1255 words)

  
 St. Vincent Explorer Sea Scouts Unit
As the only Sea Explorers (who specialise on water activities) in the district they are the natural route for our Sea Scouts moving on to Explorers.
Explorer Sea Scouts are young men and women from 14 to 18 years old.
The Explorers continue to expand their Kayaking skills moving on to 2 and 3 star skills and to moving water on local rivers like the Churnit and Severn and on white water in North Wale.
homepage.ntlworld.com /jennydodd/Explorers.html   (198 words)

  
 Scouting For All - Scouts Take A Stand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the end, what seemed to impress the council most was that the Sea Explorer ship Northland, which has been based in Berkeley for the past 65 years, has its own anti-discrimination policy and that the troop's 15 members make up one of the most diverse Sea Explorer troops in the Bay Area.
A Sea Explorer scout troop snubbed by Berkeley because of a discrimination policy practiced by its parent group, the Boy Scouts of America, has found refuge in Richmond.
The Richmond City Council has approved the Sea Explorers' request for free berthing space at Marina Bay for the group's 74-foot powerboat, the Northland, and two smaller vessels that are used to teach boating skills to disadvantaged youth.
www.scoutingforall.org /news/takeastand/stand3.html   (2472 words)

  
 ZaTaNg.CoM - LoCals - Kolkata - What's Hot - Sea Explorers Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sea Explorers Institute - Calcutta is a multi disciplinary, professional society dedicated to advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore.
The Sea Explorers Institute was founded fourteen years ago for people to know the sea and use the sea for the benefit of mankind.
Closer to home the Sea Explorers Institute studies the complex ecological conditions governing along the Hooghly estuary, extending from the coast of Bay of Bengal to Calcutta.
www.zatang.com /locals/cityk/khot17.htm   (420 words)

  
 In the Sea: Little Explorers Picture Dictionary
A sea is a large body of salt water that is connected to an ocean.
Sea cucumbers are cylinder-shaped animals that live on the sea floor.
The sea horse is a very strange type of fish - it has a long snout and a curled tail.
www.littleexplorers.com /dictionarysubjects/sea.shtml   (1879 words)

  
 Sea Scouting: History
Sea Scouting had its beginning at a camp fire in England when Lord Baden-Powell voiced the hope that older Scouts would be interested in learning about boat management and seamanship.
Sea Scouting received a real boost in October 1917, when James Austin Wilder (a veteran sailor, global traveler, artist, and devoted Boy Scout volunteer) was secured as Director of the Department of Sea Scouting of the Boy Scouts of America.
Sea Scouts across America were saddened by the death of Commander Thomas J. Keane in 1984.
www.seascout.org /about/history.html   (1954 words)

  
 Let's go out! In to the Sea! Sea Explorers of Korea
Korea is surrounded by the sea, with a treasure house of resources, on three sides of the peninsula.
In this context, Sea Explorers of Korea is implementing a dream and to build courage in the minds of young people, and presenting them a vision of the future on the sea.
By encouraging sea explorers to be familiar with the sea from childhood, SEK promotes its members to acquire basic knowledge for sea development.
www.sekh.or.kr /new/eng/activities03.html   (406 words)

  
 california map and map of california information page
Long before European explorers probed into this land called California, its Stone Age, mostly Asian inhabitants, arrived here by traversing the Bering Strait, and over the centuries that followed a wide variety of cultures developed and prospered.
In 1579, the English explorer, Sir Francis Drake, sailing along the northern coastline found a suitable port where he was able to repair and restock his ships.
Sea explorers from one of Portola's many expeditions were the first Spaniards to view San Francisco Bay.
www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/ca.htm   (734 words)

  
 Sea Explorers (1966-98)
When National revised the Explorer program and created the Exploring program in 1959, it purposely left the Sea Explorer program alone to see how it operated along side the new Exploring program.
In addition to the traditional Sea Scout logo of the First Class badge on the anchor, a second Sea Explorer logo was created in 1971: the Explorer Big E on an anchor, which is shown above.
This program was intended for Sea Explorers and units that were not interested in the traditional program.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Falls/8826/seaexplorer66.html   (920 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Royal Geographical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Society has been a key associate and supporter of many famous explorers and expeditions, including those of Darwin, Livingstone, Scott and Shackleton.
David Livingstone David Livingstone (March 19, 1813 – May 1, 1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, Early life Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire...
Sir John Franklin (April 15, 1786 – June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer, whose fate — and that of his last expedition — was for many years a mystery.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Geographical-Society   (901 words)

  
 New World Thrives In Arctic's Hidden Depths
Among the animals found were a dozen species believed to be new to science, including jellyfish, sea cucumbers and brittle worms, together with 50 species, such as squid and octopus, never before recorded in the Arctic.
Working 24 hours a day, the explorers used a variety of techniques, including scuba diving and a remotely operated underwater vehicle, to photograph and capture creatures.
In fact, along with underwater sea mounts and the seas under the Antarctic ice, which have been much better studied, they turn out to be one of the last retreats of biological diversity.
www.rense.com /general67/hidd.htm   (541 words)

  
 Robert Ballard: Undersea Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com
Sea Water: Ballard discovered that the water of the earth's oceans is cycled through the earth's crust, changing its mineral composition in the process.
The JASON project is named for Jason, the mythical Greek explorer who sailed the seas in a ship named "Argo" in order to find the golden fleece.
A Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) called Jason is sent to explore the sea down to 20,000 feet, and Jason's video signals are broadcast live via two-way satellite to students in schools and museums around the world.
www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/b/ballard.shtml   (608 words)

  
 List of explorers - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography.
Romolo Gessi ((1831, 1881)), Italian explorer of the Nile and of Sudan
William Stairs, (1863-1892), Victorian explorer, discovered one source of the Nile River, first non-African to ever climb in the Ruwenzoris.
open-encyclopedia.com /Explorer   (1225 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure
As a member of a Sea Explorers’ Institute expedition from Sikkim to Siliguri, he was rafting on the Teesta River when his rubber boat turned turtle.
The Sea Explorers’ Institute was founded in 1986 by a handful of eager beavers assisted by industrialists like Jeet Paul and B.M. Khaitan.
A notable feature of the Sea Explorers’ Institute is that it attempts to temper adventure with a sense of responsibility for the marine environment.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060715/asp/atleisure/story_6461215.asp   (841 words)

  
 Philippine Holiday and Travel Bookings from Philippine Holidays
SEA EXPLORERS INC., founded in 1986 by Chris Heim and Patrick Gillieron, is active across the whole of the Visayas.
SEA EXPLORERS operates six dive centres in this southern Philippines region, namely in Dumaguete-Dauin, Negros Oriental (our flagship divecentre), Alona Beach, Panglao, Cabilao Island on Bohol, Moalboal-Cebu, Malapascua-Cebu North, Siquijor Island and we are affiliated with Sabang Divers in Puerto Galera.
You dive at many Sea Explorers dive centers and also in between on the way from a dive center to the next one.
www.philippineholidays.com.au /dive.htm   (172 words)

  
 Boy Scouts of America SFBAC San Francisco Bay Area Council
In 1912, Sea Scouting was founded for older Scouts and flourished as a program based on the traditions of the sea.
That year, Arthur A. Carey of Waltham, Massachusetts, had Sea Scouts using the schooner Pioneer and was appointed Chairman of the National Council Committee on Sea Scouting.
Sea Exploring was placed in the Venturing Division and was renamed Sea Scouts.
www.sfbac.org /about/a_venture_history.cfm   (911 words)

  
 BBC - Weather Centre - Features - History and Religion - Explorers - Ernest Shackleton and the Trans-Antarctic ...
After the conquest of the South Pole by Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, people began to wonder what would be the next feat in the field of Antarctic exploration.
This would be done by the shortest land route between the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea.
Shackleton organised a kind of double expedition that would consist of one ship entering the Weddell Sea with a party of men approaching the Pole from that side; and another ship entering at the Ross Sea.
www.bbc.co.uk /weather/features/explorers_shackleton.shtml   (778 words)

  
 List of explorers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
(French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)) Jacques Cartier, (1491-1557), discovered the (A North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic) St.
(United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)) William Clark, (1770-1838), with Meriwether Lewis led the first (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American expedition to reach the west coast.
James Augustus Grant, (1827-1892), Scottish officer and explorer, explored the eastern equatorial (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_explorers.htm   (4238 words)

  
 Beach-Related Words: Little Explorers Picture Dictionary
The intertidal zone is where the sea meets the land, the area between high tide and low tide.
Sea gull is the common name for some birds that live near oceans and lakes.
Starfish (also known as sea stars) are animals that live on the ocean floor.
www.enchantedlearning.com /dictionarysubjects/beach.shtml   (474 words)

  
 Shipwreck treasure brings claims, rumors - Boston.com
Deep-sea explorers who found what could be the richest-ever shipwreck treasure said Monday that the reaction to their discovery has overwhelmed them.
TAMPA, Fla. --Deep-sea explorers who found what could be the richest-ever shipwreck treasure said Monday that the reaction to their discovery has overwhelmed them.
In Spain, the government said it was "suspicious" of Odyssey's find, given that it recently gave permission to the company to hunt for the wreck of the HMS Sussex in the Mediterranean Sea.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2007/05/21/disney_deal_for_finders_of_sea_treasure   (678 words)

  
 Explorers
Explorers are people who travel to or investigate unknown places.
Today however, explorers are persons who systematically search, examine, and investigate for the purpose of discovering unknowns in all aspects of our universe; making new discoveries and expanding frontiers in science, medicine, technology, and our environment.
After studying different explorers, make a list of 10 attributes that you believe are needed to be an explorer.
eduscapes.com /42explore/explorers.htm   (1125 words)

  
 The Explorers Club Honors Clive Cussler and 12 Other Deep Sea Explorers
Twelve of the world's greatest undersea explorers, an esteemed group more at home on or under the water than they are on land, were honored by The Explorers Club of New York for their contribution to marine exploration.
She holds the record for the deepest solo dive of 3,281 ft. (1000 m), set in 1985; and Don Walsh, Ph.D., who piloted the bathyscaphe "Trieste" in 1960 to a depth of 35,800 feet in the Marianas Trench.
The Explorers Club is a multidisciplinary, professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore.
www.numa.net /press/112800.html   (653 words)

  
 European Voyages of Exploration: Asia:Vasco da Gama
When explorers reached a previously uncharted region, they were to place the pillar ashore to claim the land in the name of Christendom and Portugal.
In the interim, successive wars with Castile and Spain (the latter of which was fuelled by competing claims between Portugal and Spain for a division of spoils in the New World of North America) delayed further exploration.
That is, the era of history when European nations alone controlled the seas - until the emergence of Japan and the United States as major naval powers at the end of the nineteenth century.
www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/vasco.html   (900 words)

  
 Explorers
Explorers are people who travel to or investigate unknown places.
Today however, explorers are persons who systematically search, examine, and investigate for the purpose of discovering unknowns in all aspects of our universe; making new discoveries and expanding frontiers in science, medicine, technology, and our environment.
After studying different explorers, make a list of 10 attributes that you believe are needed to be an explorer.
www.42explore2.com /explorers.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Education World ® - Curriculum: Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World
The Explorers of the World is a most interesting site, but if it's the nitty-gritty about explorers that you "seek," the most comprehensive site of all is Discoverer's Web.
It focuses on the technical problems and progress of the early explorers rather than on specific explorers or their voyages, and it includes fascinating information about geography and cartography, shipbuilding and navigation, and early maritime superiority.
Great Explorers of the World and their Expeditions provides a very brief timeline of the explorations of individual explorers.
www.education-world.com /a_curr/curr095.shtml   (904 words)

  
 Summer Camp - Desert and Sea Explorers
Desert and Sea Explorers will have fun learning about Sonoran Desert animals and plants that live on the land and in the water.
Explorers will meet live animals, make shark art, go behind the scenes at animal exhibits, learn about whale blubber, talk to keepers, dissect squid, take a field trip to Agua Caliente Park to explore and investigate it's Riparian wonders.
Franklin Lane is the Director of Education for the Sonoran Sea Aquarium.
www.desertmuseum.org /kids/sc_showclass.php?id=898   (350 words)

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