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For the past several weeks I have been traveling and can't wait to share with you my adventures on the Black Sea. I still get excited when I have the opportunity to visit new places and this was a new destination for me. I had been to Istanbul and Athens before, but had never visited the Ukraine, Bulgaria or Romania. I absolutely loved Romania and hopefully will have an opportunity to see more of Romania in the next year or so. Before I start my articles on the Black Sea, I want to cover...
Text of report by state-funded Georgian Public Television Channel 1 on 9 August We have just been informed by our correspondent in Batumi that evacuation has been declared at the town's airport. Passengers and airport staff are being taken out of the building. The airport's administration has received information about an expected attack by Russian aircraft. Evacuation was declared by the airport administration just as a Boeing jet bound for Istanbul was due to take off. The flight has been...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. (VPL) today confirmed its readiness to begin a dialogue with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as soon as the company receives a direct and official request from the government of Ukraine to begin negotiations. VPL will not suspend proceedings in the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm unless and until VPL and the government make significant and meaningful progress in the discussions over the company's Hydrocarbon Sharing...
Russian oil firm Rosneft has stated its aim to start selling fuel in Italy. The Mediterranean country represents a decent prospect for Rosneft as the lack of price competition would provide it with an opportunity to undercut its rivals. Moreover, Rosneft's refining capacity in the Black Sea means that it would not be dependent on market incumbents for supplies. Russian oil major Rosneft's European representative, Alexander Karpushin, has revealed that the company is looking at the different...
Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 29 July: The Vitse-Admiral Zakharyin minesweeper, a fundamentally new mine defence vessel, has joined the Novorossiysk naval base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. ITAR-TASS has learned at the Black Sea Fleet information and public relations service that "the Vitse-Admiral Zakharyin is a new concept of a mine defence ship, whose mine sweeping methods are absolutely different from those used until now". "This project has for...
Feature: Chinese students from quake-hit regions embrace Black Sea TUAPSE, Russia, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Walking on the beach, Chen Sai, a boy who had just had his first swim in the sea, wiped off the water on his face and said to his friends happily: "It's so salty, the sea water!" About 200 students from China's quake-affected areas were sent to Russia's Krasnodarskiy Kray for rehabilitation. On Monday, they went to the beach near their rehabilitation center and saw for the very first time...
From $800 million to just over $1 billion -- that's how much of a jump there is in the latest construction cost estimate for the Lake Powell pipeline project, the Utah Department of Natural Resources announced Friday. The latest number comes closer to the $2 billion that critics of the project say the pipeline will cost. "Costs have risen sharply over the past several years, as they have for similar major construction projects nationwide," Utah Division of Water Resources director Dennis...
Romania involved in developing pan-European oil pipeline BUCHAREST, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Romania, represented by Oil Terminal and Conpet, has signed the memorandum and articles for associating to the company that will develop the pan-European oil pipeline project (PEOP), said a news release sent to the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Thursday. The other shareholders of the inter-state company are JP Transnafta Pancevo of Serbia and Jadranski Naftovod of Croatia. Oil Terminal and Conpet are...
Text of report in English by Turkish news agency Anatolia Izmir, 13 July: Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Sunday that an American oil company asked for permission from their ministry to seek oil in the Black Sea. Guler told reporters in the Aegean city of Izmir that they were worried over soaring fuel oil prices and indicated that oil drilling in the Black Sea would begin in 2009. Guler pointed out the high costs of drilling, both in sea and land, and said they did not want to be...
A recent intrusion by Black Sea saltwater into the wetlands of the Kizilirmak Delta in Turkey has increased salt levels in the area's lakes, with negative effects on wildlife in the region, local Today's Zaman reported on Monday. Murat Bulut, chairman of the Black Sea Nature Protection Federation (KARDOGA), was quoted as saying that the increase in the salt levels of the lakes in the Black Sea delta, one of the most important wetlands in Turkey, has been caused by water channels that were...
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The black sea urchin (Diadema antillarum), also known as the lime sea urchin or the long-spined sea urchin, is a species that can be found in the Caribbean basin and the western waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It prefers to inhabit coral reefs in these areas and resides at depths of up to 32.8 feet. This species has a test, or outer shell, that is similar that of most species of sea urchin. However, this species has longer spines, a trait from which it derived one of its common names. These...
The Sea of Marmara, or otherwise known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is the inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus dividing Turkey’s Asian and European parts. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Dardanelles and the Black Sea to the Aegean. The sea has an area of 11,350 square kilometers (280 kilometers x 80 kilometers) with the greatest depth reaching 1,370 meters. The salinity of the sea averages about 22 parts per thousand, which is slightly...
The Aegean Sea is a stretched out embayment of the Mediterranean Sea that is located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas. Northwards, it’s connected to the Marmara Sea and the Black sea via the Dardanelles and Bosporus. The Aegean Islands are located in the sea and some bordering its southern periphery, including Rhodes and Crete. This Aegean region consists of 9 provinces in southwestern Turkey, partly bordering on the Aegean Sea. It was traditionally known as...
The Sea of Azov, known is Classical Antiquity as Lake Maeotis, is a sea towards the south of Eastern Europe. It’s linked by the narrow Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea towards the south and is bordered in the north by mainland Ukraine, in the east by Russia, and in the west by the Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. The Kuban and Don are the major rivers that flow into the Sea of Azov. This sea is the shallowest in the world with the depth varying between 2 ft 11 inch and 46 ft. There’s a...
The Black Sea is a sea located in south-eastern Europe. It’s bordered by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is eventually connected to the Atlantic Ocean by means of the Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas and a variety of straits. The Bosphorus Strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the Strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean Sea area of the Mediterranean. These waters divide eastern Europe and western Asia. The Black Sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the...
