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| 18/07/10 World's oldest champagne found in Baltic Wreck |  | | Divers have found 30 bottles of champagne thought to pre-date the French Revolution on the Baltic seabed.
When they opened one, they found the wine - believed to have been made by Clicquot (now Veuve Clicquot) between 1782 and 1788 - was still in good condition.
The bottle - whose shape indicates it was produced in the 18th Century - has now been sent to France for analysis.
If confirmed, it would be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world.
Diver Christian Ekstrom was exploring a shipwreck on the Baltic seabed when he found the bottles.insert new picture | | more info: | www.bbc.co.uk/news.. | | copyrights: | bbc news | | entered: | Allen Tony | | category: | archaeology, discovery |
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| 14/05/10 Double accuracy for UK & Ireland charts | | | As of today, we have finally finished the longtime process of doubling the accuracy of all maritime charts in the UK and Ireland. All these charts are now at full resoultion (300dpi) and are approximately 70~100 times bigger than the average computer screen.
What's more, OSGB36 and ED50 position adjustments and (non-linear) Transverse Mercator projection corrections have been implemented.insert new picture | | entered: | Lettens Jan | | category: | wrecksite |
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| 01/05/10 New agreements with Hydrographic Offices | | | A great milestone for the wrecksite.
On April 28th, the wrecksite obtained officially the rights to publish the maritime charts from the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Croatia, South-Africa, Iceland, Oman and Malta. We will gradually implement all charts from these countries. We have already updated 80% in Netherlands, Belgium, Malta and Oman.
We are hoping to close an agreement with SHOM (France) soon.insert new picture | | entered: | Lettens Jan | | category: | wrecksite |
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| 10/04/10 Wrecksite generating chart layers 4 x faster | | | We have reworked and invested in the charting software quite drastically and this has resulted in generating charts 4 x faster.
As a consequence, this has allowed the site to show more than 4.000 wrecks on one chart. The restriction of max. 2.200 wrecks per chart has thus been amended to 4.200. This affects small scale (=large area) charts such as 'Approaches to the Thames', 'Celtic Sea', etc. where a large number of wrecks is now being displayed.insert new picture | | entered: | Lettens Jan | | category: | wrecksite |
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| 27/03/10 wrecksite running on 2Gb RAM memory | | | In the mean time, our server has 2 Gb RAM memory available.
We can see from the performance manager that the site is doing great now.
Special thanks go to the VLIZ, the Flemish Maritime Institute, who are hosting the wrecksite, for adding the extra memory.
This significantly improves the wrecksite's performance.insert new picture | | entered: | Lettens Jan | | category: | wrecksite |
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| 19/03/10 HMS Prince found off Ukraine | | | Ukrainian archaeologists say they have identified the remains of HMS Prince, a British naval vessel that sank off Balaclava during the Crimean War.
The sinking, with all 150 men on board, caused outrage not only for the human toll, but because thousands of badly needed winter uniforms were also lost.
The ship had not been found since it sank during a storm in November 1854.
Other underwater expeditions have found parts of the ship, but it is the first positive identification.
According to Sergei Voronov, of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and the leader of the expedition, explorers discovered a plate fragment from the captain's mess last summer.
After months of meticulous cleaning, the fragment revealed the name of the company which owned the Prince before it was hired by the Royal Navy: the General Screw Steam Shipping Companyinsert new picture | | more info: | news.bbc.co.uk/2/h.. | | Related wreck(s) | Prince HMS (+1854) | | copyrights: | bbc news | | entered: | Allen Tony | | category: | archaeology, discovery |
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| 09/12/09 New Chart Battle of Falklands 1914 | | |  A new chart system was set online today, depiciting the positions and movements of the fleets during the battle on a special smaller chart. The chart is free for everybody to see. Click here to see the chart. We may make more charts like these, 'E.g. Battle of Jutland'. | | ref. used: | | | entered: | Lettens Jan | | category: | wrecksite |
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