Sea Gem News Today

Here is The Leader daily briefing for Wednesday 27 December 2023, with the news from around Spain, things to do locally, the weather forecast, and a little trip back in time on this day. News Around Spain The Government plans to approve a royal decree-law on Wednesday to extend some of the measures that expire

A museum run by a 94-year-old volunteer in tribute to wartime oilmen is still looking for a new home nearly two years after losing its home.

An Edingley man appears on BBC's Countryfile programme today to help reveal some of the secrets of Sherwood Forest.

The source of the current energy crisis goes back decades. How did the UK become so hopelessly hooked on foreign gas?

Today marks the 57th anniversary of the Sea Gem platform disaster that claimed the lives of 14 North Sea workers.

Since the discovery of its first offshore reservoirs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, North Sea has a long and proud history in oil production and technical innovation.

Tabitha Lasley’s Sea State is an intimate and blistering memoir of a writer’s life amidst the UK’s offshore natural gas industry.

Scott Sheahen / KEYT SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- A mixed reaction to the Center for Disease Controls (CDC) latest guidance for masks. Carly Weisman set her Sea Gems table at Thursdays State Street Promenade Market with her mom. She said, “We were planning on asking actually the people that put it on. Just to see what they think. Because if they want us to wear it then we’ll definitely wear it.” Dakayla Rasper is visiting Santa Barbara from Akron, OH, this week with her friends. She said, “...

Thank Hitler, Not the Royal Navy, for Sinking His Own Battleship Fleet The fog of war—and snow squalls and smoke!—spoiled what otherwise was a well-conceived ambush by the German cruisers. Heres What You Need to Remember: Admiral Raeder, who had been building up the Kriegsmarine for more than a  decade, tendered his resignation rather than follow the order. Appointed in his place was Adm. Karl Dönitz, a submariner who had long criticized the resources expended on the surface fleet. Howe...

One battle made all the difference. Heres What You Need to Remember: During World War I, the Imperial German Navy had disposed of dozens of massive battleships, dreadnoughts and battlecruisers—but due to their numerical inferiority vis-à-vis the British Royal Navy, almost never committed them to battle. Dönitz was right—the mere possibility of a German battleship sortie forced the Royal Navy to devote disproportionately large forces in reserve just to protect against the threat. This i...