Since Dr. Ballard decided to base his expeditions out of the aquarium, his dream has been to give people the opportunity to explore the world's oceans without leaving Mystic or getting wet.
Here in the boondocks vast hordes of nasty little black flies swarm together and hover around your face and any other exposed area, swooping in to bite, even getting through your hair to your scalp - as Yours Truly repeatedly finds out on his expeditions out of the SUV to take a photo.
The adaption of David Mitchell's sprawling 2004 novel tells six interweaving stories -- among them, a 19th century sea expedition, a present day fish-out-of-water comedy and a post-apocalyptic adventure set 106 winters after the fall of humanity -- with stars like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Sturgess playing multiple roles of varying genders and race.
In this scientific expedition, passion and endurance, industrial applications, molecular insights, and out-of-the-box thinking all play key roles.
South London coroner's court heard that it was the first time that the expedition group had used the Out of Nature centre in Windhoek, Namibia, and no written risk assessment had been undertaken before the accident.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has pulled out of an expedition across Antarctica during winter because of severe frostbite.
The estate he had inherited at the death of his mother enabled Humboldt to finance the expedition entirely out of his own pocket.
When a young woman named Patricia, who has joined Somerville's expedition fresh out of Cambridge, rues the "contrary spirit of dismemberment" that threatens the archaeologists, who are trying to "put things together, make sense of things, add to the sense of human community," her sentiment soars above the narrative.
This morning, a research expedition steamed out of the Port of Galveston, Texas, for the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, about 180 kilometers off the coast of Texas and Louisiana.
