Musician Cody Simpson is 'Ocean Advocate' for UN
role as part of The Ocean Conference, which has been under way since Monday and which will wrap up on Friday, 9 June. He will attend a photo exhibition, Waves of Action; explore an ocean lab; speak at the premiere of Urban Bay, a documentary exploring the underwater world of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay; and join the closing celebration with a live performance in the General Assembly. The singer shared his personal connection to the ocean to urge the global community and his millions of devoted fans to join the #SaveOurOcean campaign. “The oceans are in serious trouble
Data Buoys to Support Rio de Janeiro Olympics
Autoridade Publica Olimpica (APO) in support of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The WatchKeeper buoys will be deployed in July of 2015 to provide real-time metocean data for some regional games as a trial before the Olympic Games in 2016. The buoys will be deployed at Copacabana beach and Guanabara Bay to provide wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, solar radiation, directional waves, current speed and direction, water temperature and salinity data for forecast improvements and real time data specific to sports such as, beach volleyball, sailing
Fallen Brazilian Tycoon Batista Faces the Law
, Rio de Janeiro. As Batista ran out of cash, he stopped funding community policing programs in Rio shanty towns, leaving police without part of their budget for equipment and undermining a program credited with reducing crime. He also pulled support for sewage projects designed to clean up Guanabara Bay and Rio's post-card lagoon, the venues for sailing and rowing at the 2016 Olympic Games. His private jets, now sold, are no longer available to organizers. The renovations of the historic Hotel Gloria and Gloria Marina, both expected to be used in the Olympics, are stalled, and he has pulled
ISS Awarded Another Brazil Offshore Project
Cabiunas project, located approximately 300 kilometres off the coast of the State of São Paulo in the Santos Basin. ISS’ support services will include the preparation of STV Finesse for the arrival and load-out operation of the pipelayer vessel, Stingray, and multi-cat boat, Atlas, at Guanabara Bay. Additional services will include managing formalities with the Port and Maritime Authorities, arrangement of permits, pilots, stowage planning and notices to airmen and mariners. Further husbandry services such as arranging crew changes, spare-parts delivery, hotel accommodation and
February 2024
