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Welcome to the Sea Vision UK Newsletter for February
Welcome to the Sea Vision UK Newsletter for February, this month's newsletter features a range of interesting stories from across the sector - hopefully something to interest everyone.
One emerging trend in the current economic climate is an increased interest in careers in the maritime sector, three times the expected number of students attended a recruitment event at South Tyneside College, click here to read more.
Scroll down this newsletter to read more about the British Antarctic Survey's recent recruitment campaign that attracted so much interest that its website crashed... and the Merchant Navy Training Board pilot programme for its new Careers at Sea Ambassadors initiative.
Finally, keep an eye out for our special Photography Competition newsletter which will be sent to you at the end of February announcing the winners. With nearly 1,000 entries the standard was incredibly high and judging proved very challenging.
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Lifeskills Kent to be built out of shipping containers
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is supporting the development of a unique community centre being built in Aylesham, Kent out of recycled shipping containers. Lifeskills Kent will provide safety and soft skills training for all ages and the MCA will be promoting coastal safety messages through an interactive coastline and seaside boardwalk. Read More...
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Isle of Wight teenager to take to the high seas
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An Isle of Wight teenager is preparing to cross the Atlantic on a 20.6m ketch, as part of the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge. Imelda McGrath, aged 18 and currently at Carisbrooke High School, will be going to Tenerife in May to join the vessel Rona II to sail 2,600 nautical miles west across the Atlantic to Bermuda. Read More...
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Secret World of Plankton on tour
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The weird, wonderful and unseen world of marine plankton will be brought to the surface in a stunning national photographic exhibition. The pictures have been taken by Dr Richard Kirby, Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth. The Euphotic Zone exhibition is named after the sunlit surface of the sea in which these tiny creatures live. Read More...
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MNTB launches pilot for Careers at Sea Ambassadors
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The Merchant Navy Training Board (MNTB) has launched the pilot project for an initiative which will see seafarers across the country promoting Merchant Navy careers to young people and students. Fifteen Careers at Sea Ambassadors have attended a training workshop and will be using new and specially commissioned resources to support their visits to schools, colleges and youth groups. Read More...
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Sea Your History: 20th Century Royal Navy
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An exhibition at The Royal Naval Museum, is offering taste of the real experiences of the Navy's people - in combat and under stress, doing their day-to-day work, at rest and play, at home and abroad, at sea and on land - during a century of almost continuous conflict and rapid technological and social change. Read More...
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Flags of convenience and 'ships of opportunity'
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Sophisticated research ships are vital for marine research. But other less glamorous vessels such as ferries and merchant ships make a big contribution too. Known as 'ships of opportunity', ferries are helping monitor whale and dolphin populations; gathering data on water temperature, salinity and fluorescence; and even collecting plankton samples. Read More...
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Getting away from it all - in the Antarctic
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The British Antarctic Survey's website has buckled under the weight of interest in its new recruitment campaign for chefs, electricians and plumbers on the planet's coldest continent - Antarctica. Tony McLaughlan, an electrician working at the survey's Rothera base says 'It is really amazing being here. I never imagined that an ordinary bloke like me could end up working in Antarctica'. Read More...
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World marine market valued at £2 trillion
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A research report released by Marine South East, has valued the total world marine market at £2 trillion. Shipbuilding has the largest global market of 744 marine activities covered by the research report. The results of the Global Opportunities Research make strategic information available to the marine industry, identifying and evaluating existing and emerging markets for a number of sub-sectors. Read More...
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Tyneside to be home to new Maritime Management Organisation
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Tyneside will be the home of the headquarters of a new body to regulate and manage the sea around England. The new Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is part of the government's pioneering Marine and Coastal Access Bill. The MMO will be a centre of expertise that will contribute to sustainable development, streamline regulation and improve enforcement. Read More...
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Scottish Maritime Museum achieves National Status
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All three Museums that form the Scottish Maritime Museum, have been accredited as being of a National standard. Sam Galbraith, Chairman of the Trustees of the Museum, said that: Scotland's influence on the maritime history of the world from the eighteenth century to the modern day has been enormous and out of all proportion to the size of the Country. Read More...
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Fish and chip sales flourish in credit crunch
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Fish and chips shops are profiting from the credit crunch, according to figures released by Seafish, the authority on seafood. Total sales at the UK's 9,500 fish and chip shops rose by 2 per cent last year, with one in every £100 spend on food being spent in a fish and chip shop. Read More...
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Mersey beats big boat record
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The largest ship ever to enter the Port of Liverpool berthed at the Tranmere Oil Terminal in January. The 158,569gt BW Bauhinia was escorted into the Port of Liverpool on 21 January 2009. She berthed at the Tranmere Oil Terminal to discharge a cargo of 82,000 tons of West African crude oil for the Shell Stanlow Refinery in Cheshire. Read More...
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Check out the news pages on the Sea Vision website, you'll find these stories and many more from across the UK maritime sector... just click here
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