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Liveaboard Rescued In Palau. The MY Black Pearl I issued a May Day call on July 20, 200 nautical miles west of Palau, Micronesia, and U.S. territory, which was answered the next day by USCGC Oliver Henry. The 11-person liveaboard crew reported a locked rudder and flooding in the bilge, and the Coast Guard towed the vessel to port. The Black Pearl, a 154-foot 497-ton luxury yacht diving liveaboard, was reportedly en route to Cebu, Philippines, for maintenance. The U.S. Coast Guard is responsible for a 1.9 million square nautical miles search and rescue zone. (www.islandtimes.org)

Russian Guns in the Bahamas. Allen Exploration recently discovered 24 iron cannons off the northern Bahamas - including "rare" examples traced back to the Crimean War of 1853-1855. But just how the 19th-century cannons manufactured thousands of miles away in Russia ended up in Bahamas waters is among the archipelago's "most unexpected underwater revelations," says a scientific report published in Allen Exploration Ocean Dispatches. The cannons are in 30 feet of water, four miles northwest of Memory Rock on the edge of the western Little Bahama Bank. (Newsweek)...

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