Welcome to the Sea Vision UK Newsletter for September
The new look Sea Vision website is now live - just click here. The site has up-to-date images, additional functionality, an improved events section, a tailored education resource facility which will be easier for teachers to use and lots of exciting news from across the sector.
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| The Sea Vision Photography Competition | |
If you have a camera, you can enter the Sea Vision Photography Competition. Run in conjunction with Practical Photography magazine, this popular annual competition is open to amateurs or professionals of any age using any type of camera. Look out for more information in the next newsletter – including full details about how to enter, the different maritime categories and the fantastic prizes to be won. |
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Save the date: The Sea Vision Forum |
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The Sea Vision Forum will be held on Wednesday 5 November 2008 in London. The Forum will celebrate growth and success across the maritime sector – with leading industry speakers. Sea Vision will also be launching a range of resources which will be valuable tools for the campaign and Partners in raising awareness of the sea, the maritime sector, education and careers. This event offers Sea Vision Partners a valuable opportunity to make a direct contribution to the campaign’s future plans, assess progress to date and and important chance to network with representatives from across the maritime cluster. More details to follow in the next newsletter. |
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| Bristol Port Company plans £500 million deep water container ship terminal | |
Bristol Port Company has submitted a harbour revision order application and environmental statement to the government for a new £500 million deep-water container terminal. |
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| Marine South East Chair becomes EU Ambassador of the Sea | |
Iain Shepherd, Chair of Marine South East has been appointed EU Ambassador of the Sea. The role will involve promoting excellence in maritime affairs, working to improve understanding of the industry across the continent and helping to clarify and explain the concepts and ideas put forward by the commission thus informing national and regional debate. |
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Sea Vision’s new website is live! |
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The new Sea Vision website is now live, it has a new modern look and additional functionality. There is an improved and extensive events listing which has been populated with events happening around the country. If you know of a maritime event happening in your area – visit the website and fill in the form to let everyone know - it’s very quick and easy! Click here We are also working to build a comprehensive database of Education Resources, which we can promote to teachers as valuable materials linked into the curriculum, which in turn will spread the word about the range of opportunities and experiences available across the maritime sector. If you are a Sea Vision Partner please upload your resources (click here) and use this opportunity to promote the work that your organisation does, again it’s very quick and easy! We are currently working on a Careers section and would value any materials that you would like to share or that promote opportunities in your organisation. If you have any thoughts on the new website, or think there is something missing – please let us know, just email us on info@seavisionuk.org. |
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| Research into Increasingly Acid 'Champagne Sea' | |
Sea Vision Partner, University of Plymouth has been examining the effects of ocean acidification, working on a site off the island of Ischia in southern Italy where geologic CO2 naturally seeps through the seafloor. |
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| Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) celebrates Second Birthday | |
The Responsible Fishing Scheme has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2006. Two years on, 41 per cent of the UK fleet by vessel tonnage is now engaged in this initiative, developed to raise standards within the catching sector. More than 200 vessels have successfully passed their independent audit.
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| Lyme Bay protection - a taste of the future? | |
In June, Defra decided to close 60 sq nautical miles, about 10%, of Lyme Bay to scallop dredging from early July. Defra consulted widely before reaching their decision, trying to get and understand the views of all stakeholders. But it was always clear that no decision was going to satisfy everyone.
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| Schools Marine Challenge Success | |
The Schools Marine Challenge race days were held in July. Run in both the South West and South East, the competition introduces school children to the world of marine engineering. |
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| First underwater view of Northern Ireland coastline unveiled | |
A European funded project to survey the seabed off the northern coast of Ireland, has revealed some spectacular results. Parts of the seabed which have not been surveyed since Victorian times, are providing some spectacular results, showing underwater cliffs, reefs, caves and what may have been a lagoon.
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| Many of Britain's shipwrecks are in danger of being lost forever | |
English Heritage is warning that more than 40 per cent of Britain's historic shipwrecks are in danger of being lost forever through neglect and vandalism. English Heritages’ most recent Heritage at Risk (HAR) list, identifies 45 wrecks on a new list of important cultural sites that are "at risk", and in urgent need of protection and regeneration.
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| The Tall Ships Race, Liverpool | |
Liverpool, this year’s European Capital of Culture was the Host Port for the beginning of the Tall Ships Race on 18- 21 July. The entire Liverpool Waterfront was used by the Tall Ship's Fleet, with more than 70 tall ships ranging from square riggers, schooners, brigs, brigantines, ketches, yawls, to cutters and sloops taking part.
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| The Sea is the future | |
George Whitfield is year 10 at the London Nautical School, in Lambeth, South London and a member of the Southwark Sea Cadets. He has written an excellent essay about the sea being the future which we are pleased to feature here.
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| A day in the life of... | |
We talk to Captain Barbara Campbell on Tenacious, one of the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s tall ships, a ship which is adapted to enable a crew of disabled and able bodied people to sail side by side.
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