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By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.

Today, February 5th at 0700 GMT, a chunky, cherry-red ice breaker nosed its way out of Cape Town’s famous Table Bay, and shaped a course for Antarctica, 3000 nautical miles to the South West.

Last week the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust announced the resumption of the search for Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance which lies in deep water beneath the ice of the Weddell Sea. A hundred years after his death Shackleton is still big news and media outlets around the world were quick to pick up on the story.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 The Eureka Springs Community Center unveiled its new outdoor walking trail in early December, and it’s already become a popular part of the facility. Activities director Cat Luna said the trail is a quarter-mile long and 6 feet wide with a mostly concrete, level surface. The trail has been in the works for years, Luna said, and the community center started working on it after the SPARK event last year. Luna thanked board members Adam Biossat and Bill Featherstone for their hard work on the project, saying it’s important to have a level surface to walk on in Eurek...

Thursday, December 31, 2020 The Eureka Springs Community Center unveiled its new outdoor walking trail in early December, and it’s already become a popular part of the facility. Activities director Cat Luna said the trail is a quarter-mile long and 6 feet wide with a mostly concrete, level surface. The trail has been in the works for years, Luna said, and the community center started working on it after the SPARK event last year. Luna thanked board members Adam Biossat and Bill Featherstone for their hard work on the project, saying it’s important to have a level surface to walk on in Eurek...