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A police computer expert has been giving evidence at the trial of four men alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to defraud the NHS. DC David Hodge told Plymouth Crown Court a PC and laptop computer were seized by police investigating an alleged fraud by Fort Hyperbaric, a company based at Fort Bovisand, Plymouth. He said information was copied from the computers' hard drives onto discs for him to analyse. This was better than working with the original hard-drives, he said, because...

German engineering major Siemens has received a E75 million order from the Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras, for the supply of ten compressor trains. The single-shaft compressors plus their drives will be installed in desulfurization units at eight existing oil refineries in Brazil. The order is part of a major investment program initiated by Petrobras to make eco-friendly low-sulfur fuels available at all of Brazil's gas stations. The Siemens compressor trains will be delivered to...

By RICHARD PYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Jamaica Bay is a pristine waterway located within the only national park in New York City, a place where herring gulls pirouette overhead, Canada geese sail in naval formation in quiet coves and harbor seals frolic on the shoreline. But the beaches of Jamaica Bay are also home to something far less breathtaking: abandoned boats. At any time, scores of discarded boats dinghies, rowboats, runabouts, even the occasional barge litter the...

Synthetic Blood International, Inc. (OTCBB:SYBD) today announced that grants awarded by the Department of Defense to study clinical applications for Oxycyte(R) total more than $5.3 million. Oxycyte is the company's perfluorocarbon (PFC) therapeutic oxygen carrier. The grants, which have been previously announced, are summarized below: -- Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering Shock Center (VCURES) received $1.3 million under a previously awarded U.S. Office of Naval...

By Kayla Bunge, The Janesville Gazette, Wis. Jun. 18--Photo Gallery Flooding photos Severe storms and flooding have caused problems locally and statewide. If you have been affected, we want your photos. Send us your photo. To view a gallery of photos of the flooding taken by Gazette photographers, click here. View Gallery JANESVILLE -- The floodwaters aren't just battering homes and businesses; they're damaging the equipment used to measure the water level along the Rock River....

I f YOU'RE disinclined to kit your baby out in Sunday best for a boring old studio portrait, you can now make a splash by doing something completely different. An aspiring photographer in North Cornwall can photograph you and your baby underwater. Beate Rothon is the diver on the other side of the lens, and Bubble Pixels is the company. The service is proving increasingly popular; she can even do video footage for those treasured "first swim" memories. "I first started taking underwater...

Naval frogmen to remove underwater security threats for Olympics BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- A contingent of 78 naval frogmen will surveil open water areas for Beijing Olympics 2008. The divers from a search and rescue troop of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy are believed to take the responsibilityof clearing underwater security threats for Olympic water sports venues, the PLA Daily reported Wednesday. The divers of the Navy's East Sea Fleet have conducted more than 1,400 missions,...

By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Aug. 13--CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio -- When John Sanders began diving for bodies in 1965, it was a touch-and-go operation. Up to two dozen divers would line up and grope along the bottom of a murky lake or river, hoping to bump into the corpse. Now, the hunt for drowning victims is high-tech. From a pontoon boat with three side-scan sonars, an underwater robot camera and other gear, Sanders and his team can pinpoint a body before getting wet. It's...

By Dutelle, Aric Today's forensic photographer is well versed in the methodology and logistics associated with abovewater photography. There has been a great deal of emphasis and training dedicated to ensuring that proper viewing angles, distances and subject matter are captured in an effort to record a true and accurate depiction of the scene as it was when the photographer shot it. However, what if the crime scene in question was located under water? Would the same practices and...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions and potentially in outer space.If all goes well with this second round of testing and exploration, the team will return in May for a full-scale exploration of the Zacatón system.Sinking more than 1,000 feet, Zacatón has only been partially...