Sunday, May 26, 2013

5/26/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board

WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

                    YOUR PORTAL TO THE MARITIME WORLD                 

                                             SUNDAY MAY 26, 2013

HMS BOUNTY II, originally built larger than the 18th century original of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY fame, featured for more than twenty years in films and videos and then just one of the many casualties of Super Storm Sandy
                                                   

SUNDAY  MAY 26, 2013


TO VIEW A SHORT VIDEO DESCRIBING THIS SITE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw32RRJY98
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NOTICE:   BACK THE BOT!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO WIN THE "KICKSTARTER" FUNDS FOR THE CORAL 
BOT

  Ocean Bots: Learn about and hopefully contribute to the development of these diving robots intended to help repair the world's damaged coral reefs  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376482095/coral-bots-teams-of-robots-that-repair-coral-reefs 

PLEASE PLEDGE TODAY: 5/26/2013 THE DEADLINE IS TOMORROW MORNING AT ABOUT  06:13 AM, EST IF THE FUND RAISING GOAL IS NOT MET NO "KICK STARTER FUNDING" WILL BE PROVIDED. TODAY REALLY IS IT. $73,387 WAS STILL NEEDED AT 19:00 ( 7:00 PM,)  EST. YOU CAN PLEDGE AS LITTLE AS A DOLLAR. THE AVERAGE IS $40. 


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 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TODAY IS PERFORMED AS THE FULL VERSION, MANY AMERICANS HAVE NEVER HEARD THE COMPLETE LYRIC, WHAT IS SUNG AT MOST PUBLIC EVENTS IS A SHORTENED VERSION 

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THE BIG LINKS LOCKER:

UNLOCKING THE MARITIME WORLD: Our mission is literally to  unlock the maritime world by making all English language maritime data easy to find,  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable. We suggest checking our subject pages to your right first, by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest. These pages will bring you to short introductions,  free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click any of the "super links" below that appear most appropriate, the broadest and most general is hyper linked just below. This is an entire web site of nothing but links to maritime websites and blogs of every description.

"The Mother of All Maritime Links": 
http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html#top 


If you don't find the book you need among those we have reviewed so far or linked to click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below or as provided within our special interest sections which you reach by clicking on their titles listed to your right.

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

We think the following links to major sites aligned with our "Special Interest Pages" can often provide answers to commonly asked questions:

ADMIRALTY or MARITIME LAW:


Note: The Cornell site when you arrive in the Admiralty section has two tabs : "Overview" and "Resources". If you are doing legal research the "Resources" tab is a fast route into most relevant statutes, and regulations, Supreme Court Cases, and even some state cases.

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS
WORLD MARITIME NEWS:

MARITIME TV: Videos and television broadcasts on all manner of maritime subjects http://www.maritimetv.com/



NAVAL HISTORY:

Naval History Blog, Joint Effort of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Naval history and heritage Command.

http://www.navalhistory.org/

NAVAL NEWS:
USNI NEWS:  http://news.usni.org/author/slagrone  

A NAVAL NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE: NOSI Naval Open Source Intelligence:

http://www.nosi.org/


OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

SHIP RESEARCH: 

SHIPINDEX.ORG

Find publications that mention a particular ship recently or deep into recorded history:  http://www.shipindex.org/  limited free service very reasonable short and long term subscriptions.

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NEWS OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER
NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst
Namazu is our senior maritime analyst and star commentator, many visitors check in just to see what the giant catfish has to say lately. When he has something new we post it in this space. Other wise his stuff is all over the blog postings, and an index to his posts is in the INDEX AND FINDING AIDS SECTION.. At the end of Thursday's day's second posting Namazu predicts the most probable year for the start of the China vs Japan, Philippines, and U.S. naval war over the islands of the China Seas.

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SCROLL DOWN FROM HERE:  To read today's posts and keep scrolling to read older posts, or click on a date for posts in the right hand column.

IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: Not in order of occurrence: (1)

SPECIAL INTEREST PAGES SUCH AS ADMIRALTY LAW, DIVING, FISHING, BOAT BUILDING ,ETC. : Click on the title of interest in the column on your right.
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5/26/2013 FISHING INTEREST:

BEASTIE PRESENTS:

                AN EPIC BASS BATTLE:
"Beastie" Epic Fish Battle Editor

OK we all know that I'm particularly partial to bringing you man on man sized fish battles and of course I'm partial to the man sized fish. But I'm told that biped fishermen enjoy battling smaller fish on lighter tackle and in the Bass fishing crowd, with light tackle anything approaching a double digit weight is a battle. In that light here are the best bass battles I found on YouTube this week. Click on the link below to see this week's "EPIC BASS BATTLE".  My biped boss Johnas asked me to remind you that your worst day fishing is better than your best day at work, which I agree with as long as you are not trying to hook man sized fish. Hey, I enjoy fishing for the smaller species too. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXjATVBO0q0
And check out the victory yelps on this video "Oh My God What  A Bass"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1eCO5pwIo4

Three generations of Women on One Boat, One truly ep[ic Grandma vs Fish Battle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccoYVDB8bI
                                                                                                                            
  AMAZON GIFT CARDS, NO EXPIRATION
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5/26/2013 Oceanography-The Coral Bot Drive for KickStarter Funds

SUNDAY MAY 26, 2013 THE LAST DAY TO BACK THE BOT.   PLEDGE LINK CLOSES AT 0613 EST MONDAY MORNING.   A DROID IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE!  PLEDGE NOW!

BACK THE BOT TODAY!  PUT THIS DROID TO WORK!

DESPITE THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND THE ON LINE PLEDGE LINE IS OPEN PAST MIDNIGHT TODAY SUNDAY.  
THE TIME IS SHORT   Coral Reef
                                                           Photo Courtesy Petr Kratochvil    http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=4586&picture=coral-reef

Ocean Bots: Learn about and hopefully contribute to the development of these diving robots intended to help repair the world's damaged coral reefs

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376482095/coral-bots-teams-of-robots-that-repair-coral-reefs  

PLEASE PLEDGE TODAY: 5/26/2013 THE DEADLINE IS 06: 13 AM MAY 27, 2013 IF THE FUND RAISING GOAL IS NOT MET NO "KICK STARTER FUNDING" WILL BE PROVIDED. AS OF SATURDAY EVENING THE GOAL WAS STILL ABOUT $73,000 SHORT.   

Interestingly we didn't find the Coral-bot story in the maritime trade journals but on the Google circles site of actress Jeri Ryan. Jeri backs the Bot. We can confirm its good science and achievable technology and that it will help revolutionize coral reef restoration
Photo
This is Jeri Ryan and this is the link to her Google site: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeriRyan/posts
    JERI BACKS THE BOT . SO DOES NAMAZU

Pledges may be as small as $1, the average has been about $40, one big backer, or 73,000+  $1 backers, or any mix could put the Bot on the bottom of the sea doing its job. With the KickStarter program if a project doesn't reach 100% of its requested funding in pledges by the deadline for its posting, the project receives nothing. 


BACK THE BOT   PLEDGE TODAY!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376482095/coral-bots-teams-of-robots-that-repair-coral-reefs 
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

5/25/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board


WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

                    YOUR PORTAL TO THE MARITIME WORLD                  

                                             SATURDAY MAY 25, 2013

HMS BOUNTY II, originally built larger than the 18th century original of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY fame, featured for more than twenty years in films and videos and then just one of the many casualties of Super Storm Sandy
                                                   

SATURDAY  MAY 25, 2013


TO VIEW A SHORT VIDEO DESCRIBING THIS SITE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw32RRJY98
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NOTICE:   BACK THE BOT!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO WIN THE "KICKSTARTER" FUNDS FOR THE CORAL 
BOT

  Ocean Bots: Learn about and hopefully contribute to the development of these diving robots intended to help repair the world's damaged coral reefs  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376482095/coral-bots-teams-of-robots-that-repair-coral-reefs 

PLEASE PLEDGE TODAY: 5/25/2013 THE DEADLINE IS MAY 27, 2013 AT ABOUT  06:30 EST IF THE FUND RAISING GOAL IS NOT MET NO "KICK STARTER FUNDING" WILL BE PROVIDED. FOUR DAYS LEFT $74,387 STILL NEEDED. YOU CAN PLEDGE AS LITTLE AS A DOLLAR. THE AVERAGE IS $40. 75,000 PEOPLE IS A LITTLE OVER 2% OF THOSE WE KNOW WHO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO THE IDEA. COME ON FOLKS WE NEED 75,000 ONE DOLLAR DONORS, ONE BIG DONOR, OR ANY MIX THERE OF. DO SOMETHING FOR CORAL REEFS TODAY! SAVE THE PLANET! BUILD THE BOTS!


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 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TODAY IS PERFORMED AS THE FULL VERSION, MANY AMERICANS HAVE NEVER HEARD THE COMPLETE LYRIC, WHAT IS SUNG AT MOST PUBLIC EVENTS IS A SHORTENED VERSION 

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THE BIG LINKS LOCKER:

UNLOCKING THE MARITIME WORLD: Our mission is literally to  unlock the maritime world by making all English language maritime data easy to find,  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable. We suggest checking our subject pages to your right first, by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest. These pages will bring you to short introductions,  free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click any of the "super links" below that appear most appropriate, the broadest and most general is hyper linked just below. This is an entire web site of nothing but links to maritime websites and blogs of every description.

"The Mother of All Maritime Links": 
http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html#top 


If you don't find the book you need among those we have reviewed so far or linked to click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below or as provided within our special interest sections which you reach by clicking on their titles listed to your right.

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

We think the following links to major sites aligned with our "Special Interest Pages" can often provide answers to commonly asked questions:

ADMIRALTY or MARITIME LAW:


Note: The Cornell site when you arrive in the Admiralty section has two tabs : "Overview" and "Resources". If you are doing legal research the "Resources" tab is a fast route into most relevant statutes, and regulations, Supreme Court Cases, and even some state cases.

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS
WORLD MARITIME NEWS:

MARITIME TV: Videos and television broadcasts on all manner of maritime subjects http://www.maritimetv.com/



NAVAL HISTORY:

Naval History Blog, Joint Effort of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Naval history and heritage Command.

http://www.navalhistory.org/

NAVAL NEWS:
USNI NEWS:  http://news.usni.org/author/slagrone  

A NAVAL NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE: NOSI Naval Open Source Intelligence:

http://www.nosi.org/


OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

SHIP RESEARCH: 

SHIPINDEX.ORG

Find publications that mention a particular ship recently or deep into recorded history:  http://www.shipindex.org/  limited free service very reasonable short and long term subscriptions.

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NEWS OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER
NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst
Namazu is our senior maritime analyst and star commentator, many visitors check in just to see what the giant catfish has to say lately. When he has something new we post it in this space. Other wise his stuff is all over the blog postings, and an index to his posts is in the INDEX AND FINDING AIDS SECTION.. At the end of Thursday's day's second posting Namazu predicts the most probable year for the start of the China vs Japan, Philippines, and U.S. naval war over the islands of the China Seas.

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SCROLL DOWN FROM HERE:  To read today's posts and keep scrolling to read older posts, or click on a date for posts in the right hand column.

IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: Not in order of occurrence: (1) ITS MIDNIGHT DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR EEZ IS? (2) Boat Building Video

SPECIAL INTEREST PAGES SUCH AS ADMIRALTY LAW, DIVING, FISHING, BOAT BUILDING ,ETC. : Click on the title of interest in the column on your right.
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5/25/2013 Boat Building

RECREATIONAL BOATING INTERESTS:

A GREAT BOAT BUILDING VIDEO
Photo by Bill Bradley http://www.builderbill-diy-help.com/ and licensed under the "Creative Commons "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons  
  
Its Saturday Morning, we decided to leave the "Swimming Dragon" and the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean treading water for a while. Everyone needs a little recreation and we've paid too little attention to our non-maritime professional visitors of late thanks to the antics of the Dragon, and Ivan. So here's a pleasant little video on someone's home built and then rebuilt boat. Watch as the little boat is first constructed, then goes into use, and is later remodeled even prettier and more utilitarian than before and visits some new scenic waterways. The star of the video is a  simple boat, built with simple tools on a suburban patio. If this gives you the boat building bug there are more hyper links to progressively more complex videos on boat building in our Boat Building section as well as a number of books to get you started. If you haven't visited our Boat Building section recentky, you haven't visited it. Click on the hyper-link below for a very pleasant introduction to the hobby of home boat building.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLFrniul0TM&feature=related
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5/25/2013 Revisited Merchant Marine, Naval, Navigational Interests

NAVAL and MERCHANT MARINE INTEREST:
File:SIOrevelle.jpg
Scripps Research Ship, R/V, Roger Revelle (PD)

 THE DEFINITION OF "INNOCENT PASSAGE" IS CHANGING FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VESSELS:
It's Midnight, Do You Know Where Your Next EEZ Is?

  When my life began in 1948, the final year for all steel models, my ship master uncle's main political navigation concern was entry into a foreign nation's "territorial sea". By the time my seagoing career started in the mid 1960s there was already a growing list of considerations for maintaining "innocent passage" in an expanding zone of ocean in which adjacent coastal states claimed special rights. The world had discovered oil on the outer continental shelves (OCS) and had codified special rights over the OCS for adjacent coastal states. The latest expansion on that concept is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The international consensus on the EEZ is that it is not dependent on the geophysical definitions associated with the OCS Convention. Some legal authorities had hoped that the EEZ concept would put a 200 mile cap on the outward expansion of adjacent coastal state's exclusive economic rights to bottom resources. But the Russians and the Chinese, just to name two powers, are busy using the EEZ concept in conjunction with the OCS geophysical concepts to claim far more than 200 miles at the expense of neighboring adjacent coastal states. For years, of all of the somewhat qualified rights of innocent passage through these expanding offshore zones of evolving particular adjacent coastal state's rights; oceanographic research was perhaps the least controversial of the internationally recognized rights of "innocent passage". This once happy state of affairs is no longer the case.


 If you are doing voyage planning for an oceanographic research ship today you have to keep in mind that what may well be "academic oceanographic research " to you, may well be considered "economic research" to certain claimants of EEZ rights, real or simply claimed. While probably no one would object to your use of a standard fathometer in an EEZ today a towed seismic array would probably be an open invitation to a boarding by naval, customs, coast guard, or natural resources authorities of the claiming state. If your ship has any other sensors that you normally operate on the high seas or other more specific authorized research areas you may be well advised to turn these off, tag the controls and log the time and position of the ship when the sensors were secured in order to avoid trouble.Unless your mission is to contest someone else's claim you probably don't want to risk trouble in a disputed zone. When in doubt we suggest that you turn off the non navigational electronics.   Here is the problem for practical voyage planning and navigation. How does your bridge team know when they are about to enter an EEZ or contested or claimed EEZ? 
File:United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zones.png
Exclusive Economic Zones lightly outlines in red, those of the UK shaded in in Blue. Many nations now consider marine research within their EEZ to be without permission to be illegal. This is a relatively new development.

We searched books in print and several chart and map providers and could find little of use as a practical chart table reference. Moreover the situation with EEZs is in constant flux. So we suggest that the voyage planning team make up their own chart room reference during the voyage planning stage from the latest data. Fortunately, through the astute voyage planning work of a young NOAA Corps Officer we have become aware of an excellent source of electronic information that can serve the purpose of a voyage planning team. Those of you under 30 will immediately recognize this resource and those of you like me who are two days older than water and one day older than dirt will be amazed. Go to "Google Earth 

http://geoboundaries.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/viewing-the-worlds-eez-in-google-earch/

At Google Earth you will find a down loadable graphic and geographic coordinate description of the world's EEZs. The data is easily converted by the cyber skilled into almost any electronic chart or navigational software. The source data is also available in "GIS" shape files for use in professional geo-referencing client software. This is not the only available reference on EEZ locations around the world's oceans but it is the best we have found so far after a wide and fairly skilled search so we thought that we'd share it with fellow navigators and voyage planners and this seemed like a good place to do it. We hope that if any of you have an equal or better resource that you will lets know via a comment as soon as possible. Good luck and unless you intend to challenge some adjacent coastal state's claims, don't cross into an EEZ without securing your non navigational sensors.

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Friday, May 24, 2013

5/24/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board


WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

                    YOUR PORTAL TO THE MARITIME WORLD                  

                                             FRIDAY MAY 24, 2013

HMS BOUNTY II, originally built larger than the 18th century original of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY fame, featured for more than twenty years in films and videos and then just one of the many casualties of Super Storm Sandy
                                                   

FRIDAY  MAY 24, 2013


TO VIEW A SHORT VIDEO DESCRIBING THIS SITE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw32RRJY98
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NOTICE:   BACK THE BOT!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO WIN THE "KICKSTARTER" FUNDS FOR THE CORAL 
BOT

  Ocean Bots: Learn about and hopefully contribute to the development of these diving robots intended to help repair the world's damaged coral reefs  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/376482095/coral-bots-teams-of-robots-that-repair-coral-reefs 

PLEASE PLEDGE TODAY: 5/24/2013 THE DEADLINE IS MAY 27, 2013 AT ABOUT  06:30 EST IF THE FUND RAISING GOAL IS NOT MET NO "KICK STARTER FUNDING" WILL BE PROVIDED. FOUR DAYS LEFT $75,387 STILL NEEDED. YOU CAN PLEDGE AS LITTLE AS A DOLLAR. THE AVERAGE IS $40. 75,000 PEOPLE IS A LITTLE OVER 2% OF THOSE WE KNOW WHO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO THE IDEA. COME ON FOLKS WE NEED 75,000 ONE DOLLAR DONORS, ONE BIG DONOR, OR ANY MIX THERE OF. DO SOMETHING FOR CORAL REEFS TODAY! SAVE THE PLANET! BUILD THE BOTS!


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 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TODAY IS PERFORMED AS THE FULL VERSION, MANY AMERICANS HAVE NEVER HEARD THE COMPLETE LYRIC, WHAT IS SUNG AT MOST PUBLIC EVENTS IS A SHORTENED VERSION 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

THE BIG LINKS LOCKER:

UNLOCKING THE MARITIME WORLD: Our mission is literally to  unlock the maritime world by making all English language maritime data easy to find,  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable. We suggest checking our subject pages to your right first, by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest. These pages will bring you to short introductions,  free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click any of the "super links" below that appear most appropriate, the broadest and most general is hyper linked just below. This is an entire web site of nothing but links to maritime websites and blogs of every description.

"The Mother of All Maritime Links": 
http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html#top 


If you don't find the book you need among those we have reviewed so far or linked to click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below or as provided within our special interest sections which you reach by clicking on their titles listed to your right.

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

We think the following links to major sites aligned with our "Special Interest Pages" can often provide answers to commonly asked questions:

ADMIRALTY or MARITIME LAW:


Note: The Cornell site when you arrive in the Admiralty section has two tabs : "Overview" and "Resources". If you are doing legal research the "Resources" tab is a fast route into most relevant statutes, and regulations, Supreme Court Cases, and even some state cases.

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS
WORLD MARITIME NEWS:

MARITIME TV: Videos and television broadcasts on all manner of maritime subjects http://www.maritimetv.com/



NAVAL HISTORY:

Naval History Blog, Joint Effort of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Naval history and heritage Command.

http://www.navalhistory.org/

NAVAL NEWS:
USNI NEWS:  http://news.usni.org/author/slagrone  

A NAVAL NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE: NOSI Naval Open Source Intelligence:

http://www.nosi.org/


OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

SHIP RESEARCH: 

SHIPINDEX.ORG

Find publications that mention a particular ship recently or deep into recorded history:  http://www.shipindex.org/  limited free service very reasonable short and long term subscriptions.

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NEWS OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER
NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst
Namazu is our senior maritime analyst and star commentator, many visitors check in just to see what the giant catfish has to say lately. When he has something new we post it in this space. Other wise his stuff is all over the blog postings, and an index to his posts is in the INDEX AND FINDING AIDS SECTION.. At the end of yesterday's second posting Namazu predicts the most probable year for the start of the China vs Japan. Philippines, and U.S. naval war over the islands of the China Seas.



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SCROLL DOWN FROM HERE:  To read today's posts and keep scrolling to read older posts, or click on a date for posts in the right hand column.

IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: Not in order of occurrence: (1) Namazu on recent weather events (2) Back The Bot Up Date (3) Naval Institute Spring Book Sale

 SPECIAL INTEREST PAGES SUCH AS ADMIRALTY LAW, DIVING, FISHING, BOAT BUILDING ,ETC. : Click on the title of interest in the column on your right.
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