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BIM National Seafood Survey deadline extended until 8th February
Posted By: Ann Robinson
26th January 2021
Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency, has extended the deadline of its National Seafood Survey by two weeks in an effort to increase response rates. The survey is designed to highlight the importance of fishing to families and their wider communities in Ireland.
Boats along the harbour, Carne, Co. Wexford
More than one in ten (14%) of Ireland’s 1400 under 10m inshore vessel owners have already completed the survey. All remaining under 10 metre fishing vessel owners now have an opportunity to complete the survey until Monday, 8 February, 2021.
Irish Titanic dive veteran Rory Golden to join 2021 Titanic Expedition
Posted By: Ann Robinson
20th January 2021
OceanGate Expeditions has announced Rory Golden as an expeditionary expert who will join the Titanic Survey Expedition 2021. Golden has over 44 years of dive experience and played key roles in Titanic expeditions and dives in 2000 and 2005.
Rory Golden Flagship Scuba founder, RMS Titanic Diver and Member of the Explorers Club
Citizen explorers, known as Mission Specialists, will work hand-in-hand with Golden and other scientific, archaeological, and oceanographic experts throughout the Titanic Survey Expedition.
“I will never forget the first time I saw the Titanic. We were travelling along the flat ocean floor towards the ship and we came upon a wall of mud,” recalls Rory Golden. “We were at the forward section, near the bow, and we slowly rose up a steel wall that was covered in rivets and rusticles. Eventually we ascended over the top and there she was.