24 February, 2021 – Episode 813 – How to Choose Your Roach
February 26, 2021
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Alice Marzocchi, NOC
It is a relief when we finally see the iceberg emerging, first as a line on the ship’s radar and then as a wall of ice emerging from a foggy horizon, stretching further than we can see.
This is the remains of iceberg A-68, the third largest iceberg ever recorded, which broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in 2017. After drifting northwards, A-68 was on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in December 2020 before being … Continue reading Subscribe now for unlimited access
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Why are Chinese underwater drones clogging oceans?
Sun, Feb 14 2021 11:42 IST |
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Jack Ma episode has made global investors jittery about China. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Feb 14 : With China s burgeoning ambition to meddle a finger into the tiniest of geopolitical crevices, one can never be sure what will be found washed-up in one s backyard with the ominous Made in China tag. Last month, an Indonesian fisherman mistakenly netted an innocuous object off Masalembu. The object later turned out to be an Underwater Glider of Chinese origin.
Not surprisingly, a recent RUSI, think tank on international defence and security, report indicates that this is only one of the many such instances wherein such Chinese Uncrewed (or Unmanned) Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), also called Gliders, have been discovered in different parts of the world s oceans.