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Indian rescue teams searched on Thursday for 102 people missing after a devastating flash flood triggered by a high-altitude glacial lake burst killed at least 10, officials said.

Violent flooding from glacier lakes dammed by loose rock has become more frequent as global temperatures rise and ice melts, with climate scientists warning it poses an increasing danger across the wider Himalayan mountain range.

"At least 10 people were killed and 102 others reported missing," Prabhakar Rai, director of the Sikkim state disaster management authority, said a day after a wall of water rushed down the mountainous valley in northeastern .

Authorities said roads had been "severely" damaged and that 14 bridges had been washed away.

Rescuers were battling to help those hit by the flood, with communications cut across large areas and roads blocked.

"Floodwaters have caused havoc in four districts of the state, sweeping away people, roads, bridges," Himanshu Tiwari, an Indian Army spokesman said.

Twenty-two soldiers are among the missing, the army said. One previously missing soldier was rescued.

The army was working to reestablish telephone connections and provide "medical aid to tourists and locals stranded", it said in a statement.

The water surge came after intense rainfall burst the high-altitude Lhonak Lake, which sits at the base of a glacier in peaks surrounding the world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga.

Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than ever due to climate change , exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, according to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) research group.

Water powered downstream, adding to a river already swollen by monsoon rains, damaging a dam, sweeping away houses and bridges, and causing "serious destruction", the Sikkim state government said.

Damage was recorded more than 120 kilometres (75 miles) downstream, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised "all possible support" for those affected.

Lhonak Lake shrunk by nearly two-thirds, an area roughly equivalent to about 150 football pitches (105 hectares), satellite photographs released by the Indian Space Research Organisation showed.

"Intense rain has led to this catastrophic situation in Sikkim where the rain has triggered a glacial lake outburst flood and damaged a dam, and caused loss of life," said Miriam Jackson, a scientist specialising in ice who monitors Himalayan regions with the Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

"We observe that such extreme events increase in frequency as the climate continues to warm and takes us into unknown territory."

Earth's average surface temperature has risen nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times but high-mountain regions around the world have warmed at twice that pace, climate scientists say.

Sikkim is close to India's border with Nepal and China and boasts a sizeable military presence.

India has been wary of China's growing military assertiveness and their 3,500-kilometre (2,200-mile) shared frontier has been a perennial source of tension, with parts of Sikkim claimed by Beijing.

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At least 10 killed after Indian glacial lake bursts, 102 others missing

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The water surge came after rainfall burst Lhonak Lake, which sits at the base of a glacier in peaks surrounding the world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga.

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At least 14 killed after Indian Himalayan lake flooding, 102 others missing

The water surge came after rainfall burst Lhonak Lake, which sits at the base of a glacier in peaks surrounding the world's third-highest mountain,
Kanchenjunga

Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than ever due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, according to a research group.

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and development of quantum dots.

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The extreme flooding in Slovenia has caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage and killed at least three people, according to the country's prime minister, Robert Golob.

The devastating weather has been labelled the country's worst-ever natural disaster after the Environmental Agency issued a red warning.

Rescuers are now trying to reach flooded areas and clean up the damage.
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Floods Slovenia's 'worst-ever natural disaster'

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The extreme flooding in Slovenia has caused millions of dollars worth of damage and killed at least three people.

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I am very sad about the death of buffalo due to the extreme high temperature in Iraq. Due to the global warming in the world, I feel that we should take immediate actions to reduce the harm to the environment due to extreme weather.

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Longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters.It weighed 802.5 pounds (364 kilograms) and measured 14 feet, 3 inches (4.3 meters) long, breaking the previous record by over 2 inches, the department said.

（Press release date：2023/09/18 05:30）

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It is too danger. I hope it will not happen in Hong Kong.

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DERNA, Libya (Reuters) -- More than 1,000 people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna.

Officials expected the death toll to rise much higher after Storm Daniel barreled across the Mediterranean into a country divided and crumbling after more than a decade of conflict.

In Derna, a city of around 125,000 inhabitants, Reuters journalists saw wrecked neighborhoods, their buildings washed out and cars flipped on their roofs in streets covered in mud and rubble left by a wide torrent after dams burst.

More than 1,000 bodies have already been recovered in Derna alone. Bodies were lined up on the street outside a crowded hospital, with residents looking under the shrouds covering them in search of loved ones.

Similar devastation reigned on the way into Derna, with vehicles overturned on the edges of roads, trees knocked down, and houses inundated and abandoned.

"Bodies are lying everywhere -- in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings," Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that controls the east, told Reuters by phone shortly after visiting Derna.

"The number of bodies recovered in Derna is more 1,000," he said. "I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed."

Abu Chkiouat later told Al-Jazeera that he expected the total number of dead across the country to reach more than 2,500, as the number of missing people was rising.

Other eastern cities including Libya's second-biggest city, Benghazi, were also hit by the storm, and Tamer Ramadan, head of a delegation of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said the death toll would be "huge."

"We can confirm from our independent sources of information that the number of missing people is hitting 10,000 so far," he told reporters via video link.

United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that emergency teams were now being mobilized to help on the ground.

As Turkey and other countries rushed aid to Libya, including search-and-rescue vehicles, rescue boats, generators and food, distraught Derna citizens rushed home in search of loved ones.

In Derna, Mostafa Salem, 39, said he had lost 30 of his relatives. "Most people were sleeping. Nobody was ready," Salem told Reuters. As the storm had intensified into the evening, he said, people started getting alerts saying that the water level at one of the dams was rising and noises were emanating from it.

At Tripoli Airport in northwest Libya, a woman started to wail loudly as she received a call saying most of her family was dead or missing. Her brother-in-law, Walid Abdulati, said that "we are not speaking about one or two people dead, but up to 10 members of each family dead."

Karim al-Obaidi, a passenger on a plane from Tripoli to the east, said: "I have never felt as frightened as I do now ... I lost contact with all my family, friends and neighbors."

An Interior Ministry spokesperson told Al-Jazeera that naval teams were searching for the "many families that were swept into the sea in the city of Derna." Footage broadcast by Libyan TV station al-Masar showed people searching for bodies and men in a rubber boat retrieving one from the sea.

"We have nothing to save people ... no machines ... we are asking for urgent help," said ambulance worker Khalifah Touil.

Derna is bisected by a seasonal river that flows from highlands to the south and normally protected from flooding by dams.

A video posted on social media showed remnants of a collapsed dam 11.5 kilometers upstream of the city where two river valleys converged, now surrounded by huge pools of mud-colored water.

"There used to be a dam," a voice can be heard saying in the video. Reuters confirmed the location based on the images.

In a research paper published last year, hydrologist Abdelwanees A. R. Ashoor of Libya's Omar Al-Mukhtar University said repeated flooding of the seasonal riverbed, or wadi, was a threat to Derna. He cited five floods since 1942 and called for immediate steps to ensure regular maintenance of the dams.

"If a huge flood happens the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city," the paper said.

Pope Francis was among world leaders who said they were deeply saddened by the deaths and destruction in Libya.

Libya is politically split between east and west and public services have fallen apart since a 2011 NATO-backed popular uprising that prompted years of factional conflict.

The internationally recognized government in Tripoli does not control eastern areas but has dispatched aid to Derna, with at least one relief flight leaving from the western city of Misrata on Tuesday, a Reuters journalist on the plane said.

Norway's Refugee Council said tens of thousands of people were displaced with no prospect of going back home.

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Libya floods wipe out quarter of city; 10,000 missing

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DERNA, Libya (Reuters) -- More than 1,000 people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm

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At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake suddenly occurred in the Tangshan and Fengnan areas of Jidong region of Hebei Province. The emerging heavy industrial city of Tangshan suffered a heavy disaster and was reduced to rubble. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the area of ​​Jixiang Road in the southern district of Tangshan Road, at 39 degrees 38’ north latitude and 118 degrees 11’ east longitude. The epicenter intensity reached 11 degrees and the focal depth was 12 kilometers.

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It was the second major disaster to hit North Africa in days, after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake killed nearly 3,000 people last Friday in Morocco.

Death tolls given by officials in Libya so far have varied, but all are in the thousands. About 10,000 people were reported missing, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that runs eastern Libya, said more than 5,300 dead had been counted so far, and said the number was likely to increase significantly and might even double.

The "sea is constantly dumping dozens of bodies", he said by phone.

Tariq Kharaz, a spokesperson for the eastern authorities, said 3,200 bodies had been recovered, and 1,100 of them had yet to be identified.

Derna Mayor Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television the estimated the number of deaths in the city could reach 18,000 to 20,000 based on the number of districts destroyed by the flood.

"We expect a very big number of victims," al-Ghaithi said.

In Derna, waves rose as high as 7 metres (23 feet), Yann Fridez, head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Libya, told broadcaster France24.

Teacher Mohammed Derna said he, his family and neighbours rushed to the roof of their block of flats, stunned at the volume of water rushing by. It reached the second story of many buildings, he said. They watched people below, including women and children being washed away.

"They were screaming, 'Help, help'," he said over the phone from a field hospital in Derna. "It was like a Hollywood horror movie."

The United Nations has pledged US$10 million to support Libya's survivors, including at least 30,000 people it said had been left homeless in Derna. That is almost a third of the eastern Libyan city's pre-disaster population.

Aid workers will face great challenges.

"Obstructed, destroyed and flooded roads severely undermine access to humanitarian actors," the International Organization for Migration said, adding there were widespread power outages and communications disruptions.

"The bridges over river Derna that connect the eastern part of the city to the west have collapsed," the IOM said.

Britain announced it was sending an "initial package" of aid worth up to £1 million (US$1.25 million). London said it was working with "trusted partners on the ground" to identify the most urgent basic needs, including shelter, healthcare and sanitation.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president of Libya's neighbour Egypt, ordered "the establishment of shelter camps" for survivors of the Libyan disaster, according to state media.

France was sending around 40 rescuers and tonnes of health supplies along with a field hospital.

Turkey, one of the first to respond, announced Wednesday evening it was sending additional assistance by ship, including two field hospitals.

A naval vessel from Italy was also expected to be off Libya Thursday to provide logistical and medical support.

The European Union said assistance from Germany, Romania and Finland had been sent.

Algeria, Qatar and Tunisia have also pledged to help, while the United Arab Emirates sent two planes carrying 150 tonnes of aid. Another 40 tonnes of supplies took off Wednesday on a Kuwaiti flight.

Palestinian media reported a rescue mission had left from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and Jordan sent a military plane loaded with food parcels, tents, blankets and mattresses.

Oil-rich Libya is still recovering from the war and chaos that followed the Nato-backed uprising which toppled and killed long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

The country has been left divided between two rival governments - the UN-brokered, internationally recognised administration based in Tripoli, and a separate administration in the disaster-hit east.
Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Associated Press, dpa

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Fears grow flood death toll could hit 20,000 in Libyan city of Derna

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A global effort to assist stricken Libya gathered pace after huge flash flood slammed into the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna on Sunday.

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The earthquake and tsunami of Japan in 2011

The magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 PM. (The early estimate of magnitude 8.9 was later revised upward.) The epicentrewas located some 80 miles (130 km) east of the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, and the focus occurred at a depth of 18.6 miles (about 30 km) below the floor of the western Pacific Ocean. The earthquake was caused by the rupture of a stretch of the subduction zone associated with the Japan Trench, which separates the Eurasian Plate from the subducting Pacific Plate. (Some geologists argue that this portion of the Eurasian Plate is actually a fragment of the North American Plate called the Okhotsk microplate.) A part of the subduction zone measuring approximately 190 miles (300 km) long by 95 miles (150 km) wide lurched as much as 164 feet (50 metres) to the east-southeast and thrust upward about 33 feet (10 metres). The March 11 temblor was felt as far away as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia; Kao-hsiung, Taiwan; and Beijing, China. It was preceded by several foreshocks, including a magnitude-7.2 event centred approximately 25 miles (40 km) away from the epicentre of the main quake. Hundreds of aftershocks, dozens of magnitude 6.0 or greater and two of magnitude 7.0 or greater, followed in the days and weeks after the main quake. (Nearly two years later, on December 7, 2012, a magnitude-7.3 tremor originated from the same plate boundary region. The quake caused no injuries and little damage.) The March 11, 2011, earthquake was the strongest to strike the region since the beginning of record keeping in the late 19th century, and it is considered one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. It was later reported that a satellite orbiting at the outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere that day had detected infrasonics (very low-frequency sound waves) from the quake.

The sudden horizontal and vertical thrusting of the Pacific Plate, which has been slowly advancing under the Eurasian Plate near Japan, displaced the water above and spawned a series of highly destructive tsunami waves. A wave measuring some 33 feet high inundated the coast and flooded parts of the city of Sendai, including its airport and the surrounding countryside. According to some reports, one wave penetrated some 6 miles (10 km) inland after causing the Natori River, which separates Sendai from the city of Natori to the south, to overflow. Damaging tsunami waves struck the coasts of Iwate prefecture, just north of Miyagi prefecture, and Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Chiba, the prefectures extending along the Pacific coast south of Miyagi. In addition to Sendai, other communities hard-hit by the tsunami included Kamaishi and Miyako in Iwate; Ishinomaki, Kesennuma, and Shiogama in Miyagi; and Kitaibaraki and Hitachinaka in Ibaraki. As the floodwaters retreated back to the sea, they carried with them enormous quantities of debris, as well as thousands of victims caught in the deluge. Large stretches of land were left submerged under seawater, particularly in lower-lying areas.

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This is a natural disaster in the desert.It is because it hasn't rained in a couple of months.

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6 months after a devastating earthquake, Turkey’s preparedness is still uncertain.

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It is a huge typhoon which is horrible.

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On 8 September 2023 at 23:11 DST (22:11 UTC), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.8–6.9 and maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) struck Morocco's Marrakesh–Safi region. The earthquake's epicentre was located 73.4 km (45.6 mi) southwest of Marrakesh, near the town of Ighil and the Oukaïmeden ski resort in the Atlas Mountains.It occurred as a result of shallow oblique-thrust faulting beneath the mountain range. At least 2,946 deaths were reported, with most occurring outside Marrakesh. Damage was widespread, and historic landmarks in Marrakesh were destroyed.The earthquake was also felt in Spain, Portugal, and Algeria.

It is the strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake in Morocco, the deadliest in the country since the 1960 Agadir earthquake and the second-deadliest earthquake of 2023 after the Turkey–Syria earthquake.The World Health Organization estimated about 300,000 people from Marrakesh and the surrounding areas were affected, including 100,000 children.Following the earthquake, many countries offered humanitarian assistance and Morocco announced a three-day period of national mourning.

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I think this place is a nice place because there have many wonderful views and the people there are very kind.

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ANTALYA

Türkiye aims to become one of the top three countries in global tourism, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said.

"We set out big targets for the ' Century of Türkiye.' We target to welcome 60 million tourists and $56 billion in tourism revenues in 2023. For 2028, our targets are 90 million visitors and $100 billion in revenues," Ersoy said during a visit to the popular holiday destination Antalya.

The past five years have been very difficult for the tourism industry, Ersoy said, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires, the Russian-Ukraine war and the deadly February earthquakes.

"However, we managed all those difficulties successfully. The Turkish tourism industry emerged from this difficult period stronger."

Ersoy recalled that Türkiye ranked third globally in 2022 in terms of the number of tourist arrivals, climbing three spots compared with 2019.

"There will be hurdles, but we will grow stronger and achieve the targets set for 2028 to become one of the top three countries in global tourism," the minister said.

Last year, nearly 45 million foreign tourists visited Türkiye, pointing to an 80 percent increase from 2021. Including Turks living abroad, tourist arrivals stood at 51.4 million people.

Tourism revenues, one of the main sources of hard currency, rose more than 53 percent in 2022 compared with the previous year to $46.3 billion.

According to the latest data from the tourism industry, more than 9.3 million foreign tourists visited Türkiye in the first four months this year, up 27.5 percent year-on-year, while tourism revenues climbed 32 percent to $8.69 billion in the first quarter.

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Türkiye aims to become one of the top three countries in global tourism, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said.

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Australian scientists say they have made the world's first diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a professional female athlete.

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Prof Michael Buckland, who co-authored the study, said Ms Anderson's brain had three clear lesions, including in parts of the organ that regulate movement, problem-solving, memory, language, and behaviour.

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CTE: Brain disease diagnosed in female athlete for first time

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The degenerative brain disease - chronic traumatic encephalopathy - is linked to contact sports.

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I gave him a pen because he only had a few pens, but he liked to draw and he drew very well.

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（5B18）Peru's most active volcano spews ash up to 1.7 kilometers in days.

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（5B18）Peru's most active volcano spews ash up to 1.7 kilometers in days.

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Peru's National Institute of Civil Defense said in a statement that the status warning for the area had been "upgraded from yellow to orange" after the ash spewed as high as 1,700 meters in Uvinas.

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（5B18）Playing the pro-people card? Putin invited an 8-year-old girl to visit Kegong and called the finance ministers

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（5B18）Playing the pro-people card? Putin invited an 8-year-old girl to visit Kegong and called the finance ministers

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Have you seen this interesting news?

After the Wagner Group mutiny in Russia, President Putin's every move has attracted much attention. He met Raisat Akipova, an eight-year-old girl from Dagestan in southern Russia, at the Kremlin on July 4 and joined her in calling the finance minister to fight for more for his hometown . funds.

Source:Hong Kong 01
https://www.hk01.com/article/916169?utm_source=01articlecopy&utm_medium=referral

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The children in thought that they could take care of their father's car with a mask, so he was very careful to apply more than two or ten masks to the car.lt’s very fun.

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happened: From July 3rd to 4th, Wanzhou District was hit by heavy rain. As of 9:00 am on the 4th, 24 townships and streets had heavy rains, and 16 towns and villages had heavy rains; Changtan Town had a heavy rainstorm, Longtan Station is the maximum rainfall, it’s 261.2 mm.

feeling: Many staff members risked their lives to save people. It's just so tragic.

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I think the dog is smart.

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They got through college together - and when Grace Mariani took to the stage to receive her diploma at Seton Hall University this week, her service dog, Justin, was right beside her.

Her fellow graduates cheered as school President Joseph Nyre handed Mariani her diploma. She earned a B.S. in education, graduatingmagna cum laude.

Then Nyre held out a diploma for Justin, and the crowd inside the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., erupted. The scene was captured on video by the school.

Justin paused before accepting the white cylinder, glancing over to Mariani. Then he mastered the moment, grasping the tube in his mouth, his tail wagging while Mariani grinned.

The pair left the stage together to a chorus of cheers, and more than a few barks.

As it shared footage from the ceremony, Seton Hall noted that the 6-year-old dog, a mix of yellow Lab and golden retriever, had attended all of Mariani's classes with her.

According to the university, Mariani, of Mahwah, N.J., plans to use her degree to work in elementary education and special education.

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A service dog gets his own college diploma, winning huge cheers

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When Grace Mariani graduated from Seton Hall University this week, the school president had a special gift for Justin, her service dog.

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Natural hazards become disasters when people’s lives and livelihoods are destroyed.

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The global expected average annual loss in the built environment associated with tropical cyclones (wind and storm surge), earthquakes, tsunamis and floods is now estimated at US$314 billion. This risk presents a real challenge to the global agenda of sustainable development. (...) In absolute terms, global average annual loss is concentrated in large, higher-income, hazard-exposed economies. However, in relation to annual capital investment or social expenditure, many low and middle-income countries, and in particular small island developing states (SIDS), have the highest concentrations of risk. - UNISDR: Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015

Human and material losses caused by such disasters are a major obstacle to sustainable development. By issuing accurate forecasts and warnings in a form that is readily understood and by educating people on how to prepare against such hazards, before they become disasters, lives and property can be protected. Emphasis is on disaster risk reduction: one dollar invested in disaster preparedness can prevent seven dollars' worth of disaster-related economic losses - a considerable return on investment.

As signatories to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, WMO Members have undertaken to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk through the implementation of a range of integrated and inclusive measures that prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness for response and recovery and thus strengthen resilience. To support the assessment of global progress in achieving the outcomes and goals of the Sendai Framework, seven global targets have been agreed, most of which have direct implications for WMO and its Members.

WMO Disaster Risk Reduction activities are integrated and coordinated with other international, regional and national organizations. WMO coordinates the efforts of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to mitigate human and property losses through improved forecast services and early warnings, as well as risk assessments, and to raise public awareness.

Natural hazards occur across different time and area scales and each is in some way unique. Tornadoes and flash floods are short-lived, violent events, affecting a relatively small area. Others, such as droughts, develop slowly, but can affect most of a continent and entire countries for months or even years. An extreme weather event can involve multiple hazards at the same time or in quick succession. In addition to high winds and heavy rain, a tropical storm can result in flooding and mudslides. In temperate latitudes, severe thunderstorms can be accompanied by a combination of large, damaging hail stones, tornadoes, strong winds or heavy rain resulting in flash floods. Winter storms with high winds and heavy snow or freezing rain can also contribute to avalanches on some mountain slopes and to high runoff or flooding later on in the melt season.

Some National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and specialized centres have responsibility for investigating geophysical hazards including volcanic explosions (airborne ash) and tsunamis, and hazardous airborne matter (radionuclides, biological and chemical substances) and acute urban pollution.

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Natural hazards and disaster risk reduction

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Natural hazards are severe and extreme weather and climate events that occur in all parts of the world, although some regions are more vulnerable to certain hazards than others. Natural hazards become disasters when people's lives and livelihoods are destroyed.

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A buck supermoon rose on Wednesday. Here's what it looked like around the worldThe third supermoon of 2022 rose on Wednesday.
"The full Moon in July is called the Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time," as The Old Farmer's Almanac says. "Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year, producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by."

It's also known as a buck moon because it falls in July. The name doesn't come from its appearance — you won't see the shape of a buck on the moon's surface or anything. Instead, it refers to something that's happening in nature.

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I feel very shock because the alligator was suddenly enter Louisiana’s home .

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Watch: Alligator enters Louisiana home through doggy door - UPI.com

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A couple who recently relocated from Arizona to Louisiana got the "full Cajun experience" when their dog alerted them to an alligator inside their home.

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I was travelling by tram at last Sunday,because it was free.It I  enjoy looking at the view so I like travelling by tram.

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free tram rides and discounted meals to celebrate the 26th anniversary of hong kong’s handover

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Free tram rides and Victoria Park installations mark the 26th anniversary of HK's handover

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Hong Kong marked the 26th anniversary of its return to China with colourful events around the city. The Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association spearheaded the offer of free tram rides around the...

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octopuses tweak rna in their brians to adjust to warmer and couler water. I think the octopus is isimpressive.

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Messi arrived in Beijing with the Argentine national team a few days ago and staged a friendly match against Australia at Beijing Workers' Stadium. Argentina defeated Australia 2-0. In addition to attracting a large number of Chinese fans to watch the match, CCTV also broadcast the match live.

However, there was an episode in the game. A mainland fan rushed into the stadium to hug Messi and high-five the Argentine goalkeeper Martinez. Then he ran for most of the game and was finally taken away by security personnel. However, because he successfully hugged Messi, even though he was taken away by five security guards, he still smiled happily and became popular in the mainland. Many netizens envied him and said, "He is the luckiest man in the world!" Some netizens joked, "Run so fast, our national football team has hope!"

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It grows very slowly and is also very cute. No matter how old you get, body will not get bigger.

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在领养猫咪之前，收容所告诉她Fig有侏儒症，它的生长速度很慢很慢，就算年纪变大，体型也不会变大。

而且患有侏儒症的小猫可能会有一些并发症，寿命相对其他猫来说，会短一些。

尽管被告知了猫咪的情况，网友也没有退缩，还是坚定地将两个小家伙带回了家。

除了体型很小，Fig跟其他小猫没什么区别，甚至更加可爱。

之前它的身体状况一直都很好，直到今年，开始出现了关节疼痛的问题。

网友带它做了X光检查，发现Fig脊柱上的生长板、胸腔都没有正常形成，它也没有膝盖骨...等等诸多骨骼问题。

因为是先天性的疾病，只能吃止痛药来进行保守治疗。

好在Fig很坚强，适应药物治疗后，状况又变得很好。

如今它已经一岁半了，但站在弟弟身边却像个小朋友，很多弟弟能去的地方，它都去不了。

为此，网友特意搭建了很多小台阶，小滑梯之类的方便它行动。

可把孩子高兴坏了，这样它可以在房子里四处行动了。

网友经常会把它玩耍的画面分享到了网上，得到了很多人的关注和喜欢。

有的人因为Fig可爱，也想要养一只侏儒猫。
"不要主动刻意的去找一只侏儒猫来养，后续的并发症治疗所产生的费用，是很多家庭都难以承受的。几乎没有保险愿意承保先天性疾病，大部分治疗费用都是要自己支付。
如果想去 收容所领养一只侏儒猫，那也请先考虑好养它之后可能发生的事，如果觉得自己做好准备了，而且经济允许，那很支持给这种先天性缺陷的猫咪一个家。 "

所以，奉劝大家，领养或者购买任何一只猫咪之前，都要将它的后续养育费用考虑进去。

就像是侏儒猫，很可爱，但饲养后所耗费的时间和金钱成本是难以估量的。

责任编辑：

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如今它已经一岁半了，但站在弟弟身边却像个小朋友，很多弟弟能去的地方，它都去不了。 网友经常会把它玩耍的画面分享到了网上，得到了很多人的关注和喜欢。 有的人因为Fig可爱，也想要养一只侏儒猫。...

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＇Happy Hong Kong ＇
I was so excited about that but it waited a long time to the queue.

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Hong Kong retailers to offer HK$150 million in discounts, deals to get people smiling

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Retail industry body says it will hold Happy Hong Kong Shopping Festival from July 1 to August 31, with more than 150 brands and 6,000 stores taking part.

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This tool is designed by a Japanese.I think this is convenience since it don’t need any cooking skills that you can very easy to cook it.It is interesting.

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Egg Sushi Lunch Box

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Moon Tang          Hong Kong Palace Museum

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Moon Tang          Hong Kong Palace Museum

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I have been Hong Kong Palace Museum once. There have a lot of precious historical artefacts.

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I’m delighted that every thing was free.I visited the museum.

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Hong Kong to offer free rides and museum visits on July 1 handover anniversary

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But leader John Lee also warns residents against ‘hijacking’ handover, saying ‘we must not let our guard down’.

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PepsiCo announced that its first sauce, Pepsi Colachup, developed in cooperation with the Culinary Institute of America, will meet with customers. It combines cola and ketchup with a unique recipe, and it is only available for one day on July 4th.

Culinary Institute of America, formerly known as American Culinary Fellows, is the best culinary school in the United States.

Pepsi senior director Jenny Danzi said the sauce started with a reduced portion of Pepsi, added ingredients such as smoked tomato, a spice mix including cinnamon, thyme, oregano and paprika, and added onion and tomato Sauce.

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Culinary Institute of America原名美國烹飪研究員，是美國最佳烹飪學校。

百事高級總監丹齊（Jenny Danzi）稱，醬汁以份量減少了的百事可樂開始，加入多種成分，例如煙熏番茄，混合香料，包括肉桂、百里香、牛至和辣椒粉，再加入加洋蔥和番茄醬。

他說，研發這款醬汁，旨在製作出一種革命性的新型調味料，增強百事可樂濃郁的焦糖味和柑橘味，而這種混合口味，是專為帶出熱狗的辛辣味道而設計的。

「百事可樂茄汁」會在4日美國獨立日於紐約市（New York City）、鳳凰城（Phoenix）、明尼亞波里斯（Minneapolis）、底特律（Detroit）4個棒球場供應1天。暫未知它會否正式面市。

Twitter網民對這款新醬汁反應兩極。百事公司則在文中表示，若想一嚐「可樂茄汁」滋味，可在上述棒球場尋找「試食車」蹤影。

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百事Pepsi聯手美國頂尖烹飪學校推出「可樂茄汁」　限量供應1天

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The pop-up art display at Megabox by Japanese digital artists teamLab. I think it is interesting.

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Hong Kong interactive art show teamLab: Future Park - what to expect

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The Instagram-friendly pop-up exhibition at Megabox makes visitors part of the artwork and should be diverting for kids. But if you've seen the bigger teamLab: Supernature in Macau, prepare to be disappointed.

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Students expected to learn basic AI concepts

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Hong Kong rolls out first AI curriculum for junior secondary students

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Education official says 'students may not take up jobs in innovation and technology in the future, but their lives will definitely be affected by AI'.

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Titanic sub crew dead after ‘catastrophic implosion’, wreckage of doomed vessel found on ocean floor

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What we covered here

Catastrophic implosion: The Titanic-bound submersible that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a "catastrophic implosion," killing everyone on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday. A remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone of the Titan about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck, he said.

Who was on board: Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, and Stockton Rush, the CEO of the tour organizer, OceanGate Expeditions, died in the craft.

About the trip: The submersible was descending to explore the wreckage of the luxury liner, located 900 miles east of Cape Cod and about 13,000 feet below sea level.

2 hr 8 min ago

3 hr 26 min ago
"Titanic" director worries implosion will have a negative impact on citizen explorers

Film director James Cameron said Thursday he's worried that the Titan submersible's implosion will have a negative impact on citizen explorers.

"These are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places," the "Titanic" director told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I don't want to discourage that. But I think that it's almost now a lesson.
The takeaway is, make sure if you're gonna go into a vehicle, whether it's an aircraft or surface craft or a submersible, that it's been through certifying agencies."

Some background: Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the Titan submersible, and who died in the implosion, had spoken about his antipathy to regulations.

"At some point, safety just is pure waste," Stockton told journalist David Pogue in an interview last year. "I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything."

James Cameron, director of the hit 1997 film "Titanic," says news of the Titan submersible's explosion "certainly wasn't a surprise."

Cameron, who has made 33 dives to the wreckage himself, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that when he first heard the news of the Titan incident Monday morning, he connected with his small community in the deep submergence group and found out within about a half-hour that the submersible had lost communication and tracking, simultaneously.

"The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion," he told Cooper on Thursday. "A shockwave event so powerful that it actually took out a secondary system that has its own pressure vessel and its own battery power supply which is the transponder that the ship uses to track where the sub is."

Cameron said he did more digging and got some additional information that seemed to confirm that the submersible had imploded.

"I encouraged all of them to raise a glass in their honor on Monday," Cameron said of his community group.

He said false-hopes kept getting dangled as search teams looked for the missing passengers over the following days.

"I watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of everybody-running-around-with-their-hair-on-fire search, knowing full well that it was futile, hoping against hope that I was wrong but knowing in my bones that I wasn't," Cameron told Cooper.

He expressed condolences for the families of the passengers.

The five passengers on the Titan submersible that was diving 13,000 feet to view the Titanic on the ocean floor died in a "catastrophic implosion," authorities said Thursday, bookending an extraordinary five-day international search operation near the site of the world's most famous shipwreck.

The tail cone and other debris were found by a remotely operated vehicle about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, deep in the North Atlantic and about 900 east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

"This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor and the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, told reporters.
Here's what we know:

Debris: The remotely operated vehicle found "five different major pieces of debris" from the Titan submersible, according to Paul Hankins, the US Navy's director of salvage operations and ocean engineering. The debris was "consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber" and, in turn, a "catastrophic implosion," he said. As of now, there does not appear to be a connection between the banging noises picked up by sonar earlier this week and where the debris was found.

Timing: The US Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday and relayed that information to the commanders leading the search effort, a senior official told CNN. But the sound was determined to be "not definitive," the official said. Mauger, for his part, said rescuers had sonar buoys in the water for at least the last 72 hours and had "not detected any catastrophic events." Listening devices set up during the search also did not record any sign of an implosion, Mauger added.

What comes next: The remotely operated vehicles will remain on the scene and continue to gather information, Mauger said. It will take time to determine a specific timeline of events in the "incredibly complex" case of the Titan's failure, Mauger said. The Coast Guard official said the agency will eventually have more information about what went wrong and its assessment of the emergency response.

Response: Mauger applauded the "huge international" and "interagency" search effort. He said teams had the appropriate gear and worked as quickly as possible. The Coast Guard official also thanked experts and agencies for assisting with the search for the Titan submersible.

Who was on board: Tour organizer OceanGate Expeditions said Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush died in the submersible. They "shared a distinct spirit of adventure," the company in a statement.

Reaction: Nargeolet, a French diver, was an incredible person and highly respected in his field, said his friend Tom Dettweiler, a fellow ocean explorer. The president of The Explorers Club said the group is heartbroken over the tragic loss. Two passengers, businessman Harding and Nargeolet, were members, it said. Engro Corporation Limited, of which Shahzada Dawood was Vice Chairman, said the company grieves the loss of him and his son. The governments of Pakistan and the United Kingdom also offered condolences.

The White House thanked the US Coast Guard and international partners for their search and rescue efforts for the submersible that went missing on its way to the Titanic wreckage.

"This has been a testament to the skill and professionalism that the men and women who serve our nation continue to demonstrate every single day," a White House spokesperson said.

Earlier Thursday, the Coast Guard thanked experts and agencies from all over the world for assisting in the effort, calling it a "huge international" and "interagency" search.

The White House spokesperson also expressed sympathy for the families of the five passengers onboard the submersible.

"Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives on the Titan. They have been through a harrowing ordeal over the past few days, and we are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers," the spokesperson said.

The Titan submersible bound for the Titanic that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a "catastrophic implosion," US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday.

Now those who knew the passengers are grappling with their tragic loss and some have sent messages of condolences as their legacies are remembered.

Engro Corporation Limited, where Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood was vice chairman, issued a statement on the deaths of Dawood and his son Suleman - who were among the five people on board the Titan submersible.

"With heavy hearts and with great sadness, we grieve the loss of our Vice Chairman, Shahzada Dawood, and his beloved son, Suleman Dawood. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Dawood family at this tragic time. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues, friends, and all those around the world who grieve this unthinkable loss," the company tweeted on Thursday.

Dubai-based Action Aviation, the company owned by passenger Hamish Harding released a statement on behalf of his family.

"Today, we are united in grief with the other families who have also lost their loved ones on the Titan submersible," the statement read. "Hamish Harding was a loving husband to his wife and a dedicated father to his two sons, whom he loved deeply. To his team in Action Aviation, he was a guide, an inspiration, a support, and a Living Legend."

The statement went on to praise the efforts made to search for the Titan sub.

"We know that Hamish would have been immensely proud to see how nations, experts, industry colleagues and friends came together for the search, and we extend our heartfelt thanks for all their efforts. On behalf of the Harding family and Action Aviation, we would like to politely request privacy at this incredibly difficult time," it said.

The family of French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet said he will "be remembered as one of the greatest deep-sea explorers in modern history."

The statement signed by Nargeolet's children and wife said that they hope people think about Paul-Henri and his work when they think about the Titanic, "but what we will remember him most for is his big heart, his incredible sense of humor and how much he loved his family. We will miss him today and every day for the rest of our lives."

His stepson, John Paschall, described him as an "incredible stepfather" and someone who was caring and had a great sense of humor. He recalled how his mother and Nargeolot drove across the country to attend his college graduation in 2014 after their flight got canceled.

"They hop into their small, blue Mini Cooper and they drive 16 hours across the country from Connecticut to Chicago, drive through the night. I am quite certain that he did a lot of the driving. They showed up with one hour to spare for graduation," he told CNN. "They made it there. At that time, my mom was very sick of cancer and meant so much to me that she could be there for that moment. That is something I will never forget about him."

The US Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday in the general area where the Titan submersible was diving in the North Atlantic when it lost communication with its support ship, according to a senior Navy official.

The Navy immediately relayed that information to the on-scene commanders leading the search effort, the official said Thursday, adding that information was used to narrow down the area of the search.

But the sound of the implosion was determined to be "not definitive," the official said, and the multinational efforts to find the submersible continued as a search and rescue effort.

"Any chance of saving a life is worth continuing the mission," the official said.

The Wall Street Journal was the first to report about the acoustic signature picked up by the Navy.

Audio of the implosion was picked up by a network of sensors as part of an underwater Navy acoustic listening system, said the official, who declined to go into more detail about the secret system. The network of sensors allowed the Navy to zero-in on a possible location of the noise, providing search teams with a more refined area.

The Navy also helped analyze the audio signatures of banging and other acoustic data that were heard throughout the search efforts. Those were likely some form of natural life or sounds given off by other ships and vessels that were part of the search effort, the official said.

8 hr 12 min ago
Expert describes how robots and other machinery will help recover Titan wreckage

A single vessel, if properly equipped, and remotely controlled vehicles on the seafloor would likely be capable of recovering the wreckage of the Titan submersible, Capt. Mark Martin, a salvage master and deep submergence pilot, said Thursday.

The ship would need a crane with a wire that can reach a depth of 4,000 meters (about 2 and a half miles), which can be found on many vessels involved in offshore gas and oil construction, Martin said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

Recovery crews will also need one or two remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, which have already played a key role in the search for signs of Titan, the captain said. The ROVs are large, powerful machines that can be controlled from the vessel above them.

The ROVs will work in concert with the crane to scoop pieces of the sub into large "recovery baskets," which Martin said look like half of a shipping container made of mesh.

ROVs will pick up pieces with their arms and move them into baskets, or help attach pieces to straps for the crane, which will lift pieces to the surface, he said.

James Cameron, who directed the hit 1997 film "Titanic" and has made 33 dives to the wreckage, said he saw some similarities between the Titan traged y and the sinking of the famous ship it was bound for.

"I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result," Cameron told ABC News Thursday.

He added, "And with a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded to take place at the same exact site with all the diving that's going on all around the world I think it's just astonishing. It's really quite surreal."

What we covered here

Catastrophic implosion: The Titanic-bound submersible that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a "catastrophic implosion," killing everyone on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday. A remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone of the Titan about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck, he said.

Who was on board: Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, and Stockton Rush, the CEO of the tour organizer, OceanGate Expeditions, died in the craft.

About the trip: The submersible was descending to explore the wreckage of the luxury liner, located 900 miles east of Cape Cod and about 13,000 feet below sea level.

3 hr 26 min ago
"Titanic" director worries implosion will have a negative impact on citizen explorers

Film director James Cameron said Thursday he's worried that the Titan submersible's implosion will have a negative impact on citizen explorers.

"These are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting places," the "Titanic" director told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I don't want to discourage that. But I think that it's almost now a lesson.
The takeaway is, make sure if you're gonna go into a vehicle, whether it's an aircraft or surface craft or a submersible, that it's been through certifying agencies."

Some background: Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the Titan submersible, and who died in the implosion, had spoken about his antipathy to regulations.

"At some point, safety just is pure waste," Stockton told journalist David Pogue in an interview last year. "I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything."

James Cameron, director of the hit 1997 film "Titanic," says news of the Titan submersible's explosion "certainly wasn't a surprise."

Cameron, who has made 33 dives to the wreckage himself, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that when he first heard the news of the Titan incident Monday morning, he connected with his small community in the deep submergence group and found out within about a half-hour that the submersible had lost communication and tracking, simultaneously.

"The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion," he told Cooper on Thursday. "A shockwave event so powerful that it actually took out a secondary system that has its own pressure vessel and its own battery power supply which is the transponder that the ship uses to track where the sub is."

Cameron said he did more digging and got some additional information that seemed to confirm that the submersible had imploded.

"I encouraged all of them to raise a glass in their honor on Monday," Cameron said of his community group.

He said false-hopes kept getting dangled as search teams looked for the missing passengers over the following days.

"I watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of everybody-running-around-with-their-hair-on-fire search, knowing full well that it was futile, hoping against hope that I was wrong but knowing in my bones that I wasn't," Cameron told Cooper.

He expressed condolences for the families of the passengers.

The five passengers on the Titan submersible that was diving 13,000 feet to view the Titanic on the ocean floor died in a "catastrophic implosion," authorities said Thursday, bookending an extraordinary five-day international search operation near the site of the world's most famous shipwreck.

The tail cone and other debris were found by a remotely operated vehicle about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, deep in the North Atlantic and about 900 east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

"This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor and the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, told reporters.
Here's what we know:

Debris: The remotely operated vehicle found "five different major pieces of debris" from the Titan submersible, according to Paul Hankins, the US Navy's director of salvage operations and ocean engineering. The debris was "consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber" and, in turn, a "catastrophic implosion," he said. As of now, there does not appear to be a connection between the banging noises picked up by sonar earlier this week and where the debris was found.

Timing: The US Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday and relayed that information to the commanders leading the search effort, a senior official told CNN. But the sound was determined to be "not definitive," the official said. Mauger, for his part, said rescuers had sonar buoys in the water for at least the last 72 hours and had "not detected any catastrophic events." Listening devices set up during the search also did not record any sign of an implosion, Mauger added.

What comes next: The remotely operated vehicles will remain on the scene and continue to gather information, Mauger said. It will take time to determine a specific timeline of events in the "incredibly complex" case of the Titan's failure, Mauger said. The Coast Guard official said the agency will eventually have more information about what went wrong and its assessment of the emergency response.

Response: Mauger applauded the "huge international" and "interagency" search effort. He said teams had the appropriate gear and worked as quickly as possible. The Coast Guard official also thanked experts and agencies for assisting with the search for the Titan submersible.

Who was on board: Tour organizer OceanGate Expeditions said Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush died in the submersible. They "shared a distinct spirit of adventure," the company in a statement.

Reaction: Nargeolet, a French diver, was an incredible person and highly respected in his field, said his friend Tom Dettweiler, a fellow ocean explorer. The president of The Explorers Club said the group is heartbroken over the tragic loss. Two passengers, businessman Harding and Nargeolet, were members, it said. Engro Corporation Limited, of which Shahzada Dawood was Vice Chairman, said the company grieves the loss of him and his son. The governments of Pakistan and the United Kingdom also offered condolences.

The White House thanked the US Coast Guard and international partners for their search and rescue efforts for the submersible that went missing on its way to the Titanic wreckage.

"This has been a testament to the skill and professionalism that the men and women who serve our nation continue to demonstrate every single day," a White House spokesperson said.

Earlier Thursday, the Coast Guard thanked experts and agencies from all over the world for assisting in the effort, calling it a "huge international" and "interagency" search.

The White House spokesperson also expressed sympathy for the families of the five passengers onboard the submersible.

"Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives on the Titan. They have been through a harrowing ordeal over the past few days, and we are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers," the spokesperson said.

The Titan submersible bound for the Titanic that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a "catastrophic implosion," US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday.

Now those who knew the passengers are grappling with their tragic loss and some have sent messages of condolences as their legacies are remembered.

Engro Corporation Limited, where Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood was vice chairman, issued a statement on the deaths of Dawood and his son Suleman - who were among the five people on board the Titan submersible.

"With heavy hearts and with great sadness, we grieve the loss of our Vice Chairman, Shahzada Dawood, and his beloved son, Suleman Dawood. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Dawood family at this tragic time. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues, friends, and all those around the world who grieve this unthinkable loss," the company tweeted on Thursday.

Dubai-based Action Aviation, the company owned by passenger Hamish Harding released a statement on behalf of his family.

"Today, we are united in grief with the other families who have also lost their loved ones on the Titan submersible," the statement read. "Hamish Harding was a loving husband to his wife and a dedicated father to his two sons, whom he loved deeply. To his team in Action Aviation, he was a guide, an inspiration, a support, and a Living Legend."

The statement went on to praise the efforts made to search for the Titan sub.

"We know that Hamish would have been immensely proud to see how nations, experts, industry colleagues and friends came together for the search, and we extend our heartfelt thanks for all their efforts. On behalf of the Harding family and Action Aviation, we would like to politely request privacy at this incredibly difficult time," it said.

The family of French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet said he will "be remembered as one of the greatest deep-sea explorers in modern history."

The statement signed by Nargeolet's children and wife said that they hope people think about Paul-Henri and his work when they think about the Titanic, "but what we will remember him most for is his big heart, his incredible sense of humor and how much he loved his family. We will miss him today and every day for the rest of our lives."

His stepson, John Paschall, described him as an "incredible stepfather" and someone who was caring and had a great sense of humor. He recalled how his mother and Nargeolot drove across the country to attend his college graduation in 2014 after their flight got canceled.

"They hop into their small, blue Mini Cooper and they drive 16 hours across the country from Connecticut to Chicago, drive through the night. I am quite certain that he did a lot of the driving. They showed up with one hour to spare for graduation," he told CNN. "They made it there. At that time, my mom was very sick of cancer and meant so much to me that she could be there for that moment. That is something I will never forget about him."

The US Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday in the general area where the Titan submersible was diving in the North Atlantic when it lost communication with its support ship, according to a senior Navy official.

The Navy immediately relayed that information to the on-scene commanders leading the search effort, the official said Thursday, adding that information was used to narrow down the area of the search.

But the sound of the implosion was determined to be "not definitive," the official said, and the multinational efforts to find the submersible continued as a search and rescue effort.

"Any chance of saving a life is worth continuing the mission," the official said.

The Wall Street Journal was the first to report about the acoustic signature picked up by the Navy.

Audio of the implosion was picked up by a network of sensors as part of an underwater Navy acoustic listening system, said the official, who declined to go into more detail about the secret system. The network of sensors allowed the Navy to zero-in on a possible location of the noise, providing search teams with a more refined area.

The Navy also helped analyze the audio signatures of banging and other acoustic data that were heard throughout the search efforts. Those were likely some form of natural life or sounds given off by other ships and vessels that were part of the search effort, the official said.

8 hr 12 min ago
Expert describes how robots and other machinery will help recover Titan wreckage

A single vessel, if properly equipped, and remotely controlled vehicles on the seafloor would likely be capable of recovering the wreckage of the Titan submersible, Capt. Mark Martin, a salvage master and deep submergence pilot, said Thursday.

The ship would need a crane with a wire that can reach a depth of 4,000 meters (about 2 and a half miles), which can be found on many vessels involved in offshore gas and oil construction, Martin said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

Recovery crews will also need one or two remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, which have already played a key role in the search for signs of Titan, the captain said. The ROVs are large, powerful machines that can be controlled from the vessel above them.

The ROVs will work in concert with the crane to scoop pieces of the sub into large "recovery baskets," which Martin said look like half of a shipping container made of mesh.

ROVs will pick up pieces with their arms and move them into baskets, or help attach pieces to straps for the crane, which will lift pieces to the surface, he said.

James Cameron, who directed the hit 1997 film "Titanic" and has made 33 dives to the wreckage, said he saw some similarities between the Titan traged y and the sinking of the famous ship it was bound for.

"I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result," Cameron told ABC News Thursday.

He added, "And with a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded to take place at the same exact site with all the diving that's going on all around the world I think it's just astonishing. It's really quite surreal."

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