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female volunteers died when a Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue rigid-bottom inflatable flipped during a training session. They were trapped underneath. Two male trainees were saved by a nearby boat. The Filipino fishing boat AXL John was run down by a ship in the West Philippine Sea. A survivor said it had the words Hong Kong on its transom. Authorities said the Hong Kong-based bulker Peach Mountain was the only ship in the area but the survivor wasn't sure it was the Peach Mountain that hit his vessel. The incident has threatened to complicate the dispute over Scarborough Shoal, which both countries claim. In Olso Fjord, the three-masted superyacht Eos, refitted at Stark Bros in Lyttelton in 2010 and valued at $150 million, caught fire while at anchor. All 18 on board were evacuated and the vessel was moved closer to shore for more-effective firefighting. GREY FLEETS Apparently if the UK lost use of aircraft carriers HMS Hermes or HMS Invincible during the 1982 Falkland War President Reagan said: "Give Maggie everything she needs to get on with it." The replenishment ship (an oiler) USNS Yukon, and the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, collided 120 miles off the coast of Southern California while refuelling was underway. The probable cause was steering failure, perhaps due to the Essex having been based in Japan for twelve years and overdue for maintenance. Damage will keep both ships in repair yards for months. The commanding officer of the Essex was relieved of command for "loss of confidence in his ability to command". The Indian Navy's aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, former Russian Admiral Gorshkov, has started sea trials. Although India will get the carrier for free, it had to modernize the ship in Russia and equip it with Russian made MiG-29K/KUB deck- based fighters. The contract cost, originally $1.5 billion, grew to $2.3 billion. A developmental version of a standard German torpedo used by the German, Turkish, Pakistani, and Spanish navies, travelled over 87 miles (140 kilometres) in a test. The Royal Navy fleet-support ship RFA Fort Rosalie arrived in Havana as Cuba and the UK prepared to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Havana in the Seven Years' war. Havana remained under British control until the following year, when Britain got Florida in exchange for Havana. The Royal Australian Navy will hire the Spanish Navy's combat supply ship Cantabria to supply training-exercise support for one year. The remains of the World War I British submarine HMS E14 were found only 800 feet from the Turkish town of Kumkale's beach. In January 1918, the sub had manoeuvred twenty miles through dense minefields in the heavily fortified Dardanelles on a mission to sink the flagship of the Turkish fleet. Not finding it, the sub attacked a Turkish merchant ship. A torpedo's premature explosion forced the sub to surface and Turkish guns sank it. The sub's commanding officer knew his submarine could not reach the open sea and directed it towards a nearby beach in an effort to save the crew. The Victoria Cross was awarded posthumously. Earlier, during the Gallipoli campaign, the sub's then-CO was also awarded the VC for sinking an Ottoman gunboat and a troop ship and disabling a warship while deep in enemy territory. Royal Navy divers, highly trained in identifying underwater enemy mines, joined the Dubai Police search for a missing British Navy sailor who was poured into a taxi by shipmates for return to his ship but was never seen again. The search will focus on the waters around Port Rashid, the area where his ship, HMS Westminster, was berthed. WHITE FLEETS Miss the newly compulsory pre-sailing muster drill on a cruise ship now and you will be sent ashore, even if you are 90 and your wife is 84. It happened on the Seabourn Sojourn recently. She had refused to attend because she had done it before. The owners of the cruise ship Clipper Adventure which ran aground on an uncharted rock shelf in 2010 are suing the Canadian government for $12 million for salvage and repair costs, another $2.6 million for loss of business, and a mere $350,000 for other costs. The suit was based on the captain's claim that his chart showed 29 metres of water where there were actually only three metres and that the government had known about the ledge since September 2007. The government counter-sued for nearly half a million for expenses of the icebreaker Amundsen, which rescued the cruise ship's 128 passengers, and the Sir Wilfred Laurier which monitored the salvage operation. THOSE THAT GO BACK AND FORTH This will be last year of operation for the historic coal-fuelled car ferry Badger unless the EPA grants it a special permit to continue dumping coal ashes into Lake Michigan. In the Philippines, the bodies of three people were recovered off Mindoro Island. Apparently, a three year old child fell into the sea, his mother dove in after him, and a stranger then dove in too. All three had been taking passage on the ro-ro Starlight. In Turkey while discharging vehicles after passage from Bandirma to Tekirdag, a truck fell off the ro-ro pax Yener-C. Four bodies were found in the truck. At Quincy, Massachusetts, a tank-truck driver died after he opened a gate so he could refuel a ferry, and the truck rolled back pinning him between it and the gate. Twelve survived, 14 bodies were recovered, and another 44 were missing after the ferry Putri Ayu capsized and sank in Good for the environment, Real Science. Real Results. September/October 2012 Professional Skipper 35 VIP.S89