Good day Mariners

“Mumbai International Boat Show 2010″

The event in 2007, its inaugural year, established itself as the benchmark for boat shows in India and served to provide an important stimulus to the Indian leisure boating and water sports industry. The 2008 event outshone the previous year, and 2009 was spectacular despite the economic environment. The 2010 Mumbai International Boat Show will be scaled up to even greater heights, offering a better, more-rounded experience to both exhibitors and visitors. The success of the 2010 show is virtually guaranteed as visitors and participants of the previous three boat shows have all promised to participate in the fourth edition in a much bigger way.

MAIN EVENTS

On-Ground Exhibition Area
Large self built stands promoting a wide range of small and medium sized boats, engines, water sports equipment and luxury product display spread over 10,000 sq. m. approx. at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai.

On-Water Exhibition Area
Luxury yachts and boats including leading international brand names with over 30 boats on 100 metre floating pontoons off the historic Gateway of India.
SURROUNDING EVENTS

FICCI International Boating Conference
A one-day conference attended by over 200 delegates with key speakers from India and abroad on growth and prospects of the leisure boating industry.

Networking Dinner
Gives exhibitors, sponsors and all associated to the Boat Show a platform on which to mingle. This is an excellent networking opportunity for all serious players in the industry, attended by approximately 400 people.

Additionally:
• Press Conference
• VIP Preview Evening

“2010 to the world’s 1.5 million seafarers says UN Maritime Agency”

With the increasing peril of pirate attacks in the waters off Somalia, the United Nations agency entrusted with setting comprehensive regulations for shipping is dedicating next year to the 1.5 million seafarers who serving the daily needs of more than 6.5 billion citizens of Planet Earth.

“Our intention is to pay tribute to you, the world’s 1.5 million seafarers – men and women from all over the globe – for the unique, and all too often over-looked, contribution you make to the well being of all of us,” UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos said in a message announcing the decision.

“We will do so with deep appreciation, in recognition of the extraordinary service you render every day of your professional life, frequently under dangerous circumstances, in delivering, to the more than 6.5 billion people of the world, the wheat that makes our daily bread, the gas and oil that warms our homes or moves our vehicles and the gifts we will share and enjoy with our families and friends over this Festive Season.”

He stressed the important role seafarers play in helping to achieve safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans and reassured them “at the ‘sharp end’ of the industry, that we, who are responsible for the international regulatory regime and who serve shipping from ashore, do understand the extreme pressures that you face and that, as a result, we approach our own tasks with a genuine sympathy for the work that you carry out.”

He underscored the efforts IMO makes to ensure that “you are fairly treated when ships on which you serve become involved in accidents; are looked after when you are abandoned in ports; are not refused shore leave for security purposes; are protected when your work takes you into piracy-infested areas; and are not left unaided when you are in distress at sea…

1.5 million seafarers serving the daily needs of more than 6.5 billion citizens of the world! It is a fact that goes unnoticed or is taken for granted by most, but one that should be trumpeted loud and clear,” he concluded.

“For seafarers the world over deserve our respect, recognition and gratitude and, during 2010, we at IMO are resolved to ensure that the world does take notice of your exceptional role and contribution and of the special debt that all of us owe to you.”

“Scientist reveals new species in dark ocean dept.”

Ten years of research by a team of 2000 scientists from 80 countries reveals the intricate existence of species like a translucent giant octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, living in total darkness at least 5km beneath the surface of the world’s oceans.

Nearly 17,650 species of animal, including corals, crabs and starfish, were identified living in the depths untouched by sunlight, a marine survey found.

The researchers discovered 5,600 new marine species on top of the 230,000 animals already known to live in the world’s oceans and they hope to add several thousand more when the final census is released in London on October 4, 2010.

Robert Carney, an oceanographer at Louisiana State University, who co-leads the study of the ocean depths as part of the wider international Census of Marine Life (COML) said, “The abyss is not the dark hole anymore.”

“The diversity of life in the deep sea is much, much greater than we believed,” he said.

Scientists predict that there could be more than one million species which remain undiscovered.
Odd Aksel Bergstad, an oceanographer based at the University of Bergin in Norway, told Al Jazeera: “There is a huge number left to discover especially in the vast muddy areas of the deep sea floor.”

“The reality is that the deep sea is a frontier that hasn’t been studied very much, but with modern technology and still after 10 years we’ve only scratched the surface of this huge environment,” he said.

Among the creatures identified in the deep sea areas were luminous jellyfish and gelatinous creatures known as finned octopods, or “dumbos,” because they flap earlike fins and look like the cartoon elephant.

“Most of the organisms in the deep sea depend on the steady rain and transport of material from the sunlit upper layers and this comes in many forms from small organic particles and dead animals,” Bergstad said.
“But one of the main problems for all these deep sea creatures is the scarcity of food, the darkness and the huge volumes they have to cope with. However, these animals are uniquely adapted.”
Experts also found a tubeworm at a depth of 990m on the seafloor in one part of the Gulf of Mexico.

After using a robotic arm to lift the tubeworm from a hole on the seabed, oil gushed out and they discovered it was consuming chemicals from the decomposing oil.

Carney said that oil companies focused mostly on geological surveys to find deposits but that the presence of tubeworms could also be a marker.

“You certainly have a source or methane or liquid petroleum nearby if you find these tubeworms,” he said.
Another trip to the seafloor of Antarctica recorded the Osedax, a whalebone-eating worm.

Although the ocean depths are permanently black, many animals create their own light with luminous markings to help spot or attract prey or a mate. Scientists also said many have working eyes.

A few creatures that normally live in the sunlit zone visit the abyss, such as the southern elephant seal which was registered at a depth of 2,388m.

The India International Aqua Show, 2010, Kochi, is an Ornamental Fish & Accessories Exhibition and Trade Fair Organised by the Department of Fisheries, Government of Kerala in association with the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. It is a unique opportunity for exhibiting and marketing ornamental fish and accessories.

The event, scheduled to take place at Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium,Cochin,Kerala State, India, and is expected to attract exhibitors, breeders, traders and visitors within India and outside the country.