BUSINESS
By Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun | March 30, 2011
Seadog Ventures, a sightseeing cruise line in Baltimore's harbor, is adding a second high-speed vessel for the coming tourist season. Beginning in April, the Seadog VI will join the Seadog III in providing 50-minute tours from Baltimore's Inner Harbor out to the Key Bridge and back. Having a second vessel in Baltimore will enable the company, Chicago-based Entertainment Cruises, to offer more frequent departures, according to Daniel Leaman, general manager of Entertainment Cruises in Baltimore.
NEWS
By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun | August 10, 2010
For months in the spring and summer of 1814, Commodore Joshua Barney and his ragtag flotilla of gunboats had harassed the mighty British navy on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. But outnumbered and outgunned, Barney and his miniature fleet were bottled up in the Patuxent River with no escape and enemy forces approaching. So following orders from Washington, Barney's men scuttled the estimated 17 vessels — including his flagship, the USS Scorpion — near a place known as Pig Point.
NEWS
By Will Englund and Gary Cohn, The Baltimore Sun | December 9, 1997
The last voyage of the Nikolai Pogodin, a Russian freighter plagued by debt and barnacles, ended in the hopeless hour before dawn on the beach at Plot No. 20.The lights of the Pogodin glimmered out in the bay, seeming for a long time not to be moving - but the ship was charging out of the dark night straight toward the beach at Alang. As it came closer, the outline of the hull became visible, set off by the white foam at the bow. Beaching a ship is a ticklish business. The current runs strong.
FEATURES
By Solis-Cohen Enterprises | December 12, 1993
Q: While a missionary in Peru years ago, I was given a pottery vessel that I was told was a "huaca" (ceremonial cup) used by the Incas. Is it really an authentic and valuable Inca relic?A: Your blackware vessel appears to be authentic; however, it probably was made by Chimu Indians between the 12th and 15th centuries, not by the Incas. The Chimu Indians lived along Peru's northern coast and had a highly developed, distinct culture until their conquest by the Incas, hence the grouping of these wares with Inca artifacts.
NEWS
By Frank D. Roylance and Frank D. Roylance,frank.roylance@baltsun.com | April 15, 2009
The work of surveying and charting the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, begun in 1807, shifts to a new vessel Wednesday with the arrival of the R/V Bay Hydro II at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The $2.1 million, aluminum-hulled catamaran will be dedicated at an 11 a.m. ceremony near the Harborplace amphitheater. The craft replaces the 21-year-old single-hulled S/V Bay Hydrographer. To be based at Solomons, the new boat is more than twice as fast as its predecessor, giving it quicker access to Baltimore Harbor, where it is needed most, said Howard P. Danley, chief of navigation services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
TRAVEL
By Arline and Sam Bleecker and Arline and Sam Bleecker,Chicago Tribune | September 28, 2008
We stood between a sentinel of Inuit guides armed with rifles on Akpatok Island, an uninhabited outcropping of 700-foot-high cliffs, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. We arrived here at the edge of the Canadian boreal forest a few hundred miles below the North Pole aboard a small vessel operated by Cruise North Expeditions, an Inuit-owned cruise line. The lure: to experience the grandeur of nature in this desolate, frozen land near the top of the world. On Akpatok, the guides' eyes fixed on the horizon, watching beds of lingering snow for itinerant polar bears.