Adrian Vasquez is suing Princess Cruises after one of its ships passed by without rescuing him from a drifting fishing vessel.
The ship has drifted across the Pacific for about a year, ever since the March 2011 tsunami in Japan sent it out to the open ocean.
And Rebecca Black fans around the world will weep.
For pollution’s sake, don’t go rushing to your nearest ocean shore and start tossing note-filled bottles into the seas in search of someone on the other side. But then again, it just might work.
Earlier today, New Zealand underwent two large 5.3 and a 6.0 magnitude earthquakes in Christchurch, just five months after a 6.3 quake killed 181 people in the city on the nation’s South Island. Fortunately for the island nation, there have been no reports of deaths or serious injuries this time around.
For an island nation whose seafood industry has already been severely crippled, this is just another piece of bad news.
Scientists are attempting to create a genetic profile for Amelia Earhart through her saliva — taken from letter seals — to determine if a bone fragment found in 2009 does belong to the missing aviator.
A devastating 6.3 earthquake hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch late last night, leaving at least 65 people dead.
The Queensland floods in Eastern Australia have been the stuff of nightmares but now a NASA satellite can help explain where the floods are happening at all.
You’ve heard of a message in a bottle. Now there’s a message made of bottles. (via National Geographic)
