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Batik craftswoman rekindles village in SW China-

The 15th annual Lavender Festival in the Allegany County village of Angelica will give tribute Saturday to one of its founders, Sharon A. Rader, who died March 10.

On Thursday, June 22, patrons tried out their STEAM and engineering skills by building a buddy at the Tahlequah Public Library.

Without those rigorous safety checks, especially with customers who were not just going to explore. they were these paying customers going down, talking about the risk they took with this specific vessel. >> yeah. its interesting because he built, he designed and built a experimental submersible just for himself and went three times deeper than the 13,000 feet that the titanic is at. and he didnt go through the maritime safety protocols for that because, in his words, it was an experimental craf...

Were not just going to explore -- they were paying customers going down and talk about the risk that they took with this specific vessel. yeah, its true. >> because he designed and built an experimental submersible just for himself. and went three times deeper than the 13,000 feet that the titanic is at. he didnt go through the maritime safety protocols for that. in his, words it was an experimental kraft. and people who make that argument believe that the traditional maritime protocols really a...

Award-winning rivercane basket maker Gabriel Crowe is making history in more ways than one.    In October 2022, he received the prestigious...

How safe it was, you have probably seen that james how safe it was, you have probably seen thatjames cameron has got involved in that discussion as well, with his knowledge of some of those crafts, saying that they should be running through every possible scenario in their minds to build good vehicles. this vehicle was a bad idea. the places of these submersibles are going are extremely dangerous. what do you make of the discussion now about how you make sure vehicles that are doing that are reg...

Walls. when these vessels are subject to this pressure and come back up they need to be completely broken down, reexamined because like the space shuttles were taken out of rotation after a while and retired. you have to retire some vessels after i while because they just get the wear and tear on them and sometimes the text doesnt reveal weaknesses and then after a while you just have to take them out of rotation. not saying that was the case here. but that is something we see in these vessels a...

Therefore begin to imagine what the last few days have been like for you, and your friends and family? its been very difficult and, you know, we have a very small net community, the people who go deep into the ocean on these crafts or with robotic vehicles, and the ultradeep part of the world, we are talking 4000 metres or deeper. and there is something in us that drives us to explore and study, and that is embodied by both these gentlemen. and to have lost two of these fantastic characters is a...

And so it is cramped. it is just got to be absolutely horrible. i dont know any other way to put it. >> i understand youre friends with one of the passengers. >> yeah. p.h. nargeolet and i go way back. you couldnt ask for a nicer guy, more competent guy. in france, they call him mr. "titanic." hes the kind of person you would want to have in that situation because hes -- hes got a lot of wisdom, and knows his way around submarines and knows his way around "titanic." so, i cant imagine anyone bet...