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assembled the 10 tips that you can utilize right now to get your discount luxury cruise.
Organize your cruise for the “off-season”. Stay away from the “peak season”. If you can schedule your time even a few weeks before or after the peak season you’ll [...]
You have just seen what seems to be the one thousandth picture of your neighbor’s recent cruise. With your eyes and ears on autopilot, you start to daydream about taking a cruise too. If anything, it would give you the opportunity to take your own thousand pictures to parade in front of your neighbor!
Where would [...]
As your guests are heading back to the swim platform on the wave runner, you can see in their eyes that they are not thinking about a single thing that you told them about docking before they left. They have just been skipping across the surface of the water at 60 Knots, and driving personal [...]
How would you like to be able to visit some of the worlds most exotic, beautiful and far away places that few people will ever get to see? Including the Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Far East, Australia, Europe, Canada, and USA?
Imagine waking up each day in a different, exciting and unique tropical island, the [...]
Chartering a yacht has always been thought of as an expensive way to have a vacation. Let me explain why that’s not always necessarily right.
But I’ll start with yacht charters that really are expensive. There’s virtually no upper limit to the amount you can spend on these types of vacation. One of the largest mega [...]
In 2005 we saw some of the first new Autonomous Underwater Vehicles or AUV, which were in the shape of fish. These natural motions vessels used the propulsion techniques of Tuna Fish, Dolphins and Sharks with names like RoboTuna, RoboFish and RoboShark. Research scientists at many Universities have re-discovered the benefits of 800 million plus [...]
Given the air scare in the post 9/11 period, cruises are gradually becoming the most popular mode of traveling these days. And the cruise operators are busy making hay while the sun is shining. They are introducing new and lucrative Caribbean Cruise Packages to lure the cruising public. The best thing about these packages is [...]
New Military acoustic torpedo will kill the inbound weapon by pre-detonating it while in route. Think of it as a sound wall in the water being send out from a Navy Ship or Nuclear Submarine; a defense system literally of the future. Imagine how this changes submarine warfare? Even if you can find it, you [...]
So what is a Tall Ship really? Well, I really had a hard time finding that out. If a boat is capable of traveling on the open seas, then it’s generally accepted as a ship. It seems that a Tall Ship needs to have at least two masts. Tall Ships are traditionally rigged sailing vessels [...]
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I recently responded to an opportunity to travel from Victoria to Gold River (some 365 or so kilometers) by water. This rugged stretch of open ocean has a history for devouring ocean-going vessels.
Uchuck III leaving the Inner Harbour - Raising the Draw Bridge- Victoria BC
(Photo courtesy of the Ron Kirstein)
We were invited to [...]