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  • The back of  famous greying-blonde head belonging to Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic is seen during SpaceShipTwo's replica model unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Galactic. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson sits in the replica model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling of at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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  • Virgin boss, Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic directors Will Whitehorn and Stephen Attenborough, talk to the media during the unveiling of their SpaceShipTwo concept model's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.  Now under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009.  <br />
Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.<br />
Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world’s first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships.  It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts; in the last 4 decades the world has seen fewer than 500 astronauts. Flights start around 2009.<br />
28/09/2006
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  • A computer-generated astronaut lies down on board a space flight on Virgin Galactic's  SpaceShipTwo's,  unveiled as a replica model during Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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  • Designer Phillippe Starck standing at the nose of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Starck is design consultant for Virgin's space company and for SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA.  Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.  Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts is presented to the media and space industry commentators by Sir Richard Branson during the Wired NextFest science fair, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts plays moon-walker at his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.   Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly at the dirty picket fence with their Volvo car parked on the gravel drive outside their home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have paid the $200,000 fee for a seat on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Sam and Eve Branson, son and mother of tycoon Sir Richard, relax together on a roof terrace in Manhattan, New York. Both are queueing to join the hundreds already having paid their $200,000 for Virgin Galactic's space tourism rides in 2009. Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world’s first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships. It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • In the kitchen on a Sunday morning, space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts reads the Sunday newspaper while his wife empties the dishwasher in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters facility near Las Cruces.
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  • A replica model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, NYC. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will be able to see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico.
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  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and former Apollo (11) astronaut Buzz Aldrin chat after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly with their Volvo car outside their large home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have each paid the $200,000 fare for seats on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.   Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.
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  • Largely American passengers re-join their cruise holiday voyage around the Gulf of Mexico during a day's stop-over in Cancun, Mexico. Walking back with shopping and tourist trinkets the holidaymakers walk along the port's quayside to have their identity passes checked before being allowed back on board the Fun Ship Ecstasy. The surface is wet and a warning sign in Spanish reads Walk with care and the pedestrians make their way back to their temporary home to continue their voyage. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew whose routes are mainly around the Gulf and Caribbean Sea.
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  • A man who is wearing a denim material jacket with studs sewn into the fabric and an expensive-looking wrist watch, drapes his arm over the shoulder of an unseen female at a glitzy couture party in London, for the fashion label Voyage. A large bouquet of flowers on the right are lit by a spotlight making their colours very bright and garish. The gathering was to celebrate the opening of the company's new store on the Fulham Road in a trendy area of Chelsea. It is an image of colourful (colorful) chic opulence and although  we see only the arm and back of two people and the slightly blurred flowers to the right, we imagine these people are wealthy and from privileged backgrounds.
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  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ‘biomass’ fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
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  • A man hangs from the hat of Prince Henry, Duke of Viseu, at the Monument of the Discoveries at Belem, Lisbon. The man has found a way to scale part of the 177 foot (54 metre) high celebration to Henry, otherwise known as Henry the Navigator, or Seafarer. The trespasser is dwarfed by the giant, oversized effigies and the man hangs by his fingers and rests his foot on Henry's ship's sail which points out to sea. It is a clear day with blue skies and the slightly yellow stone is side-lit to show each feature of the carvings in fine detail. It is a classic scene of Portguese history depicted during the 1960s fascist Portuguese President Salazar's regime. Henry remains one of ocean-conquering Portugal's most famous of cartographers, whose explorers discovered new routes around Africa and the Atlantic. Although he was called Prince Henry the Navigator by the English, Prince Henry never actually sailed on any of the voyages of discovery he sponsored. Instead, Prince Henry established a school for the study of the arts of navigation, mapmaking, and shipbuilding. This would allow sailors to better guide their ships and to come up with new ship designs. Immediately behind Henry is King Manuel I then poet Luis de Camōes. The eight figures are carved by sculptor Leopoldo Almeida and along with the monument, were commissioned for the 1960 world exhibition to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Henry's death in 1460.
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  • Largely American passengers re-join their cruise holiday voyage around the Gulf of Mexico during a day's stop-over in Cancun, Mexico. Reflected in the puddles of recent seasonal rain, they queue up on the port's quayside to have their identity passes checked before being allowed back on board the Fun Ship Ecstasy. Seen above them and in reflected in the water at their feet are some of the many windows and portholes of this enormous vessel belonging to the Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines company. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew whose routes are mainly around the Gulf and Carribean Sea.
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  • Whilst on a cruise aboard the Fun Ship Ecstasy during a voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico, passengers enjoy a sexual game on deck beneath a strong tropical sun. Male contestants have lined up to be inspected by a blindfolded lady wearing a swim suit and painted nails who is required to identify her own husband by feeling his lower body and torso. Howls of laughter emit from the other men as the lady realises that this is indeed her own spouse who stands on a chair, his bulging crotch at chest height. She smiles to herself, still blind beneath a towel and the moment is funny enough for all to enjoy a happy hour of organised entertainment on deck. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Passengers enjoy the sea view from their vacation ships deck on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • A boat leaving the Weymouth Bay along the Jurassic Cliffs of Dorset, UK during stormy weather with dramatic clouds in the sky.
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  • Soon to arrive in the English port of Portsmouth from Cherbourg, the first of its routes, we see the SeaCat leaving its watery wake in the English Channel. Hoverspeed Great Britain is a 74 metre long, ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for the UK company Hoverspeed. It is powered by four 20RK270 marine engines with a 7080 kW at 100% Maximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The engines were built at the Newton-le-Willows site which at the time was part of the Alstom group. Since then it has been bought by MAN B&W Germany and the site was closed and production transferred to nearby Mirrlees Blackstone site. Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry and hovercraft company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005.
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  • Soon to arrive in the English port of Portsmouth from Cherbourg, the first of its routes, we see the SeaCat leaving its watery wake in the English Channel. Hoverspeed Great Britain is a 74 metre long, ocean-going catamaran built in 1990 by Incat for the UK company Hoverspeed. It is powered by four 20RK270 marine engines with a 7080 kW at 100% Maximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The engines were built at the Newton-le-Willows site which at the time was part of the Alstom group. Since then it has been bought by MAN B&W Germany and the site was closed and production transferred to nearby Mirrlees Blackstone site. Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry and hovercraft company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005.
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  • An officer of the Royal Navy looks proudly out to sea while standing at the bow of the frigate HMS Monmouth F235, on 23rd August 2001, near Portsmouth, England.
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  • A  Hapag-Lloyd container cargo ship navigates past two fishermen on the southern shores of the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent England. Pausing from their fishing, the two men lean over the sea defence wall to watch the traffic to-and-fro as one giant vessel after another departs from Tilbury Docks towards open sea. The Thames has historically long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world. There are 133 Hapag-Lloyd containerships with a capacity of around 499.000 TEU (Twenty foot containers), Container capacity exceeds 1,1 million (TEU) containers.
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  • As darkness approaches, a queue of campervans and other vehicles queue up at the first checkpoint in the Port of Dover's Eastern Docks, the holidaymakers' first step to travelling across the English Channel to France or Belgium. beneath the famous white cliffs of Dover, that symbol of England's edge that is seen from the sea as one leaves or approaches the English shores. It is dusk and the flood lights have started illuminating the busy port roads and ramps, the red rear tail lights from a truck cross the picture's foreground and the signs - with graphics of busses, cars  and arrows that tell drivers in which lane to line-up glow yellow. Dover has long been one of the World's premier seaports, with centuries of maritime heritage, presented with a Royal Charter in 1606.
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  • As stormy waves crash over its super-structure and funnel, the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker spills 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beeching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occured in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude.
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  • Fishermen from the Maldives haul aboard a yellow fin tuna to the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. The tuna has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth but after being dragged up with hooks, the 50kg fish will be clubbed to death by smashing its skull with repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • Facing its own blood and guts on the blue deck, a yellow fin tuna is dead on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, fishermen from the Maldives have removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • With blood and guts on the blue deck, a fisherman from the Maldives hoses down a yellow fin tuna on the floor of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. After clubbing it death, he has removed its respiratory organs with sharp knives and washes it down with a hose. Next it will be plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught (often weighing 50kg) before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • A fisherman from the Maldives clubs to death a yellow fin tuna on the deck of a dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. Using a handmade instrument of death, carved from beach flotsam, the man raises his hands to again bring the club down on the dying fish whose skull has already been smashed by repeated blows. Next it will be gutted efficiently with sharp knives and immediately plunged into ice containers to cool the flesh, reducing the risk of self-deteriorating flushed blood which renders it unfit for consumption under EU law (its live internal core temperature is 40 degrees centigrade). When as many fish have been caught before dark using hand and line method, rather than nets, the boat presses on to the processing factory at Himmafushi where they're filleted and boxed for export to Europe and in particular, for UK supermarkets like Sainsbury's.
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  • The Sir Christopher, an SR.N4 Hovercraft arriving at Ramsgate from the French coast. The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) hovercraft was a large passenger and vehicle carrying hovercraft  built by the British Hovercraft Corporation  (BHC). Work on the SR.N4 began in 1965 and the first trials took place in early 1968. The SR.N4 was the largest hovercraft built to that date, designed to carry 254 passengers in two cabins besides a two-lane automobile bay which held up to 30 cars. Cars were driven from a bow ramp just forward of the cockpit / wheelhouse.  The SR.N4's operated services across the English Channel between 1968 and 2000, when the Channel Tunnel made their service unprofitable.
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  • A lady wearing a bikini sunbathes on her vacation ships upper deck on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, a rather overweight passenger on Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy struggles to push his obese body around the ship’s top Sun Deck Olympic jogging track. In evening tropical sunlight, the man runs while sweating and panting , punishing himself while listening to a portable Walkman music player (before the era of digital MP3s). Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping, catering to budget travel.
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  • A boat leaving the Weymouth Bay along the Jurassic Cliffs of Dorset, UK during stormy weather with dramatic clouds in the sky.
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  • The Hamburg-registered Mol Caledon ship passes the giant dredging machinery at npower's Tilbury power station on the  River Thames northern shore, Essex England. Having just departed from Tilbury Docks with the evening sun glinting off the stern's reflective surfaces, stacks of tall containers are heaped high but evenly spread for stability along the massive vessel. They head out towards open sea, navigating through deeper water channels that naturally get shallower as silt chokes the waterways. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
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  • A fisherman from the Maldives sits making a call on his mobile cell phone on the bow of a dhoni boat which heads along on a calm Indian Ocean. After a hard day's fishing he gazes forward to open sea where an almost uninterrupted view of sea and horizon is seen beyond except for a small island is faintly in view. Even small remote atoll communites in the Maldives have strong phone signals and many also have good Wi-Fi connections. He and his crew have been catching Yellow Fin Tuna in the seas north of the capital Male in this Islamic Republic. Their catch is for export to the EU and in particular, the UK's supermarkets. There is no limit and no obvious destination, just infinity and the thought of tomorrow.
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  • Passengers order cocktails from a black waiter on a vacation ships upper deck, on 15th May 1996, aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, off the Gulf of Mexico, USA.
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  • The Carnival Cruise ship Fun Ship Ecstasy is anchored at night in Cancun, Mexico mid-way during a weeklong cruise around the Gulf of Mexico. With the green light from a quayside hotel and the orange light from a setting sun, the lights from the vessel make it look like a floating city. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carries 2,052 passengers and 920 crew whose routes are mainly around the Gulf and Caribbean Sea. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • En-route to Cancun in Mexico, two lady passengers of Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy are seated at The Neon Bar one evening. Lighting a cigarette that has been duplicated by the action of camera flash and ambient light, one of the girls has a packet of Marlboros on the bar plus an empty cocktail glass that has a Carnival Cruises napkin which has stuck to the glass. The Neon Bar features an enormous circular piano which doubles as a bar for those who like to sing along and neon artwork is lit behind the females, one the shape of another cocktail glass. Carnival’s ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment. The cruise line calls its ships The Fun Ships and the MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping.
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  • The city's northern waterfront is a popular area, with a view of Reykjavik's landmark mountain, Mt. Esja. The striking sculpture Sun Voyager by Jon Gunnar Arnason stands here. It is a massive steel sculpture in the shape of a Viking ship.
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  • The brand new 74.5m long superyacht, Elandess is seen moored at HMS President on the River Thames on July 05, 2018 after making its maiden voyage to London this week. Elandess was built at the Abeking and Rasmussen shipyard in Germany for owner, Lloyd Dorfman, the founder of Travelex, was launched in May 2018 and has just completed sea trials ahead of its London visit. Elandess has an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. There are a variety of entertaining communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5-metre superyacht swimming pool located on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge with portholes below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Guest accommodation includes six staterooms, including the master suite which is placed forward on the main deck with an observation lounge directly above on the upper deck.
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  • The brand new 74.5m long superyacht, Elandess is seen moored at HMS President on the River Thames on July 05, 2018 after making its maiden voyage to London this week. Elandess was built at the Abeking and Rasmussen shipyard in Germany for owner, Lloyd Dorfman, the founder of Travelex, was launched in May 2018 and has just completed sea trials ahead of its London visit. Elandess has an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. There are a variety of entertaining communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5-metre superyacht swimming pool located on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge with portholes below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Guest accommodation includes six staterooms, including the master suite which is placed forward on the main deck with an observation lounge directly above on the upper deck.
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  • An aerial view of passengers and crew of a high-speed tour speedboat belonging to Thames Rockets, on 10th October 2018, on the River Thames in London, England. Originally London RIB Voyages, Thames Rockets took to the river Thames in 2006 becoming the first ever speedboat tour operator in London.
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  • A tall ship sails past the brand new 74.5m long superyacht, Elandess, seen moored at HMS President on the River Thames on July 05, 2018 after making its maiden voyage to London this week. Elandess was built at the Abeking and Rasmussen shipyard in Germany for owner, Lloyd Dorfman, the founder of Travelex, was launched in May 2018 and has just completed sea trials ahead of its London visit. Elandess has an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. There are a variety of entertaining communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5-metre superyacht swimming pool located on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge with portholes below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Guest accommodation includes six staterooms, including the master suite which is placed forward on the main deck with an observation lounge directly above on the upper deck.
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  • A tall ship sails past the brand new 74.5m long superyacht, Elandess, seen moored at HMS President on the River Thames on July 05, 2018 after making its maiden voyage to London this week and pictured here opposite the Aviva superyacht which arrived last week. Elandess was built at the Abeking and Rasmussen shipyard in Germany for owner, Lloyd Dorfman, the founder of Travelex, was launched in May 2018 and has just completed sea trials ahead of its London visit. Elandess has an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. There are a variety of entertaining communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5-metre superyacht swimming pool located on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge with portholes below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Guest accommodation includes six staterooms, including the master suite which is placed forward on the main deck with an observation lounge directly above on the upper deck.
    20180705_New_superyacht_Elandess_VF_...jpg
  • The brand new 74.5m long superyacht, Elandess is seen moored at HMS President on the River Thames on July 05, 2018 after making its maiden voyage to London this week. Elandess was built at the Abeking and Rasmussen shipyard in Germany for owner, Lloyd Dorfman, the founder of Travelex, was launched in May 2018 and has just completed sea trials ahead of its London visit. Elandess has an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. There are a variety of entertaining communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5-metre superyacht swimming pool located on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge with portholes below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Guest accommodation includes six staterooms, including the master suite which is placed forward on the main deck with an observation lounge directly above on the upper deck.
    20180705_New_superyacht_Elandess_VF_...jpg
  • The brand new 74.5m long superyacht, Elandess is seen moored at HMS President on the River Thames on July 05, 2018 after making its maiden voyage to London this week. Elandess was built at the Abeking and Rasmussen shipyard in Germany for owner, Lloyd Dorfman, the founder of Travelex, was launched in May 2018 and has just completed sea trials ahead of its London visit. Elandess has an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. There are a variety of entertaining communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5-metre superyacht swimming pool located on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge with portholes below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Guest accommodation includes six staterooms, including the master suite which is placed forward on the main deck with an observation lounge directly above on the upper deck.
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  • Queen Elizabeth's Royal Yacht Britannia is moored at the quayside at Portsmouth, England. With pendants blowing in the breeze, its pristine paintwork shining in sunlight, the boat awaits its royal passengers for another official tour or voyage abroad. In the background is Lord Nelson's flagship museum, HMS Victory. Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia was the former Royal Yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the 83rd such vessel since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. She is the second Royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the famous racing cutter built for The Prince of Wales in 1893. Following Labour's victory on 1 May 1997 it was announced that the vessel would be retired and no replacement would be built. She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Three party girls chat intimately at close quarters in a couture launch event. The gathering is to celebrate the opening of the Voyage couture company's new store on the Fulham Road in a trendy area of Chelsea. The three girls are all beauties, seemingly keen to exchange gossip either about the industry in general or perhaps about mutual friends or boyfriends. It is dark and busy in this shop (store) in a very trendy locale of West London, where money is spent and the children of the social elite party and dance.
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  • From the wastes down, we look at the legs and posteriors of rather overweight tourists who stand in tropical heat to listen as a tour guide tells them about the Mayan pyramids that they have driven to see, during a Carnival cruise ship voyage from Miami to Cancun. Wearing the same style Reebok and Nike trainers and similar white sports socks and long shorts, their calves are thick and their bottoms are wide but they all stand motionless to hear the cultural and historical detail of this ancient place.
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  • As the wake from a ship foams behind the vessel, a young girl stands on some railings of a cross-Channel ferry that is sailing between Dover in England and Calais in France. Holidaymakers take their vehicles to continental Europe and foot passengers go on foot. The child stands and grips the rails as the sea is left disturbed by the boat’s propellers. It’s not a safe place for a young person to stand, so near the edge of the ship and the water below. She looks at the sea and imagines her holiday adventure that is beginning. People do fall overboard on these voyages and children need to be supervised so close to danger.
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  • Aboard the Carnival cruise ship Ecstasy, a father and son are practicing wearing life-preservers during the first few hours of their voyage from Miami around the Gulf of Mexico. They and every passenger on-board are being instructed by members of the ship's crew to muster (gather) in specific locations around the vessel before heading further out to sea. Under international law, everyone on a holiday ship like this needs to know what do in the event of an emergency at sea so well-organised drills are rehearsed on deck. The baby looks uncomfortable wrapped in his life vest but sucks on a pacifier dummy. The father looks relaxed in the knowledge that their lives are not risk on this occasion. The Panamanian-registered MS Ecstasy is a 70,367 ton cruise ship carrying 2,052 passengers and 920 crew belonging to Vegas-style Carnival Cruise lines.
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  • Rainbow Warrior lll waiting to be let through the locks in West India Docks. The ship going through the East Entrance Lock and into the river Thames early Monday morning.The Rainbow Warrior ll is the third generation of the legendary Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The first was bombed and sunk by French special agents, second one is now serving as a hospital ship in the Bengal Bay and this, the third in line is build according to the highest green environmental specs. The ship is now on it's maiden voyage  around the globe heading from London to Sweden. The Docklands were once used as a port of entry to London. Now, a major part of London's financial district is based in the Canary Wharf on the peninsula.
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  • Rainbow Warrior lll docked in West India Docks. The Rainbow Warrior ll is the third generation of the legendary Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The first was bombed and sunk by French special agents, second one is now serving as a hospital ship in the Bengal Bay and this, the third in line is build according to the highest green environmental specs. The ship is now on it's maiden voyage  around the globe heading from London to Sweden. The Docklands were once used as a port of entry to London. Now, a major part of London's financial district is based in the Canary Wharf on the peninsula.
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  • Rainbow Warrior lll docked in West India Docks. The Rainbow Warrior ll is the third generation of the legendary Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The first was bombed and sunk by French special agents, second one is now serving as a hospital ship in the Bengal Bay and this, the third in line is build according to the highest green environmental specs. The ship is now on it's maiden voyage  around the globe heading from London to Sweden. The Docklands were once used as a port of entry to London. Now, a major part of London's financial district is based in the Canary Wharf on the peninsula.
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  • Rainbow Warrior lll docked in West India Docks.  The Rainbow Warrior ll is the third generation of the legendary Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The first was bombed and sunk by French special agents, second one is now serving as a hospital ship in the Bengal Bay and this, the third in line is build according to the highest green environmental specs. The ship is now on it's maiden voyage  around the globe heading from London to Sweden. The Docklands were once used as a port of entry to London. Now, a major part of London's financial district is based in the Canary Wharf on the peninsula.
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  • Rainbow Warrior lll leaving London Docklands. The Rainbow Warrior ll is the third generation of the legendary Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The first was bombed and sunk by French special agents, second one is now serving as a hospital ship in the Bengal Bay and this, the third in line is build according to the highest green environmental specs. The ship is now on it's maiden voyage  around the globe heading from London to Sweden. The Docklands were once used as a port of entry to London. Now, a major part of London's financial district is based in the Canary Wharf on the peninsula.
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  • Rainbow Warrior lll leaving London Docklands. The Rainbow Warrior ll is the third generation of the legendary Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. The first was bombed and sunk by French special agents, second one is now serving as a hospital ship in the Bengal Bay and this, the third in line is build according to the highest green environmental specs. The ship is now on it's maiden voyage  around the globe heading from London to Sweden. The Docklands were once used as a port of entry to London. Now, a major part of London's financial district is based in the Canary Wharf on the peninsula.
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  • A party girl walks past a fashion mannequin in a couture launch event. The full-size model seemingly looks down the back of the real woman who appears aloof but happy to be here among friends and work colleagues. The gathering is to celebrate the opening of the Voyage couture company's new store on the Fulham Road in a trendy area of Chelsea. The three girls are all beauties, seemingly keen to exchange gossip either about the industry in general or perhaps about mutual friends or boyfriends. It is dark and busy in this shop (store) in a very trendy locale of West London, where money is spent and the children of the social elite party and dance.
    party_girls02-08-08-2001.jpg
  • A comic entertainer with glitzy backdrop performs a stand-up routine on stage during cruise ship voyage. Surrounded by the showbiz styled curtain (drapes) we see the rather fat man wearing a waistcoat and bow tie as he paces around the stage while entertaining the ship’s evening audience. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship with whirlpools, nightclubs, a casino and duty-free shopping. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships.
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