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The Largest

Maritime Social

First Floating Mega

Media Network in

Island Tested the World.

MARIN (Maritime Research Institute) tested an innovative concept for a ? oating mega island. The island comprises 87 large ? oat- ing triangles that are ? exibility connected to one another. Together they form a ? exible

MARINELINK.COM ? oating island that can be as large as 1 to 5 km in cross-section.

Olaf Waals (pictured) project manager and the concept developer: “As sea level rises, cities become overcrowded and more activities are carried out at sea, raising the dikes and reclaiming land from the seas are perhaps no longer an effective solution.

An innovative alternative that ? ts with the

Dutch maritime tradition is ? oating ports and cities.” https://www.marinelink.com/news/? oat- ing-island-tested427377

MARIN

El Faro Investigators: Better Weather Forecasting

New recommendations coming out of the investigation into the 2015 sinking of U.S. cargo ship El Faro call for efforts to improve the weather information available to mariners. All 33 crew on board died when the 790-foot El Faro sank close to the eye of Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas on October 1, 2015, two days after leaving

Jacksonville, Fla. en route to Puerto Rico. Now, as part of its ongoing investigation into the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), noting how Hur- ricane Joaquin and several other major storms had signi? cantly deviated from their forecasts, has issued 10 safety recommendations aimed at enhancing the avail- ability of weather information to mariners with a new emphasis on improving tropical cyclone forecasting.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/investigators-forecasting427013 * Statistics as of 2/14/2017

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