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BBC News | Americas | Rogue balloon lost at sea
Front Page World UK UK Politics Business Sci/Tech Health Education Sport Entertainment Talking Point On Air Feedback Low Graphics Help Monday, August 31, 1998 Published at 21:59 GMT 22:59 UK World: Americas Rogue balloon lost at sea The BBC's Samantha Simmonds: 'Still on the run' A rogue weather balloon that resisted the firepower of fighter pilots from three countries' air forces is reported to have come down in the Arctic Sea.
Dale Sommerseldt, Vice President of Scientific Instrumentation, which made the silver, helium-filled balloon said: 'As there were no reports from aircraft in the area today we believe it's finally down, in the sea, or possibly on pack ice.' 25 storeys high and as wide as several football pitches But Mr Sommerseldt said he could not be certain that the balloon had come down because there was no radar cover over the Arctic.
According to Norwegian aviation authorities, the balloon was last seen drifting into Russian air space on Monday at about 0500GMT over the Barents Sea just north of the Arctic island of Spitzbergen.
The balloon, the size of a 25-storey building, forced flights over the North Atlantic to be re-routed after it went out of control last week.


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Scots and Independent: Press and Journal Lost At Sea
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 Press and Journal Lost At Sea I finished today up on Dundee Law, the extinct volcano which towers over the city, giving magnificent views in every direction.
From a total of 21 responses, most of which represented nothing more than a polite refusal to become involved, the P&J claimed to have found 6 businessmen who had said that independence would represent ‘a social and economic disaster and a colossal backward step’..
Trouble was, most of the six had said nothing of the sort, with at least one complaint about the way their comments had been represented landing on the editor’s desk during the afternoon .
Of the most outspoken, Maitland Mackie, the P&J did at least have the grace to point out that he had stood unsuccessfully as a Lib Dem against Mr Salmond as recently as 1999.
However, the biggest belly-laugh came in the editorial, where they appeared to suggest equivalence between the business success of Mackie and that of George Mathewson, the former chairman of Edinburgh-based banking giant RBS who recently endorsed the SNP and independence..

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Popular Science Blog - The High-Tech Hunt For a Scientist Lost at Sea
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The High-Tech Hunt For a Scientist Lost at Sea On January 28, Jim Gray—one of the leading computer scientists in the field of database systems at Microsoft—set out on his 40-foot yacht Tenacious to scatter his mother's ashes on the shores of the Farallon Islands, 27 miles off San Francisco Bay.
That evening, after her husband failed to return, Gray's wife reported him missing to the authorities.
A Coast Guard search failed to uncover any sign of Gray or the Tenacious and was abandoned last Thursday.
Harnessing the power of the technologies they knew so well, his friends and colleagues have launched one of the largest and most comprehensive volunteer search efforts in history..
It all started with a mass e-mail describing the situation from a UC Berkeley professor, Joseph Hellerstein.
One of the recipients happened to be Google's Sergei Brin, who soon helped convince DigitalGlobe—one of the satellite-imaging suppliers for Google Earth—to reposition a satellite for a special sweep of the Bay Area.
The resulting images, covering 3, 500 square miles of ocean, were then loaded into Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a Web application designed to efficiently use large groups of humans to perform the types of intensive data analysis that are particularly difficult for computers, such as finding a tiny dot of wreckage among a veritable ocean of satellite images.

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Lost at sea and rescued by modern technology - baltimoresun.com
News > health & science Lost at sea and rescued by modern technology System uses data on wind, currents, tides to find man By Frank D.
Roylance Sun reporter Originally published April 6, 2007 For someone who suddenly found himself treading water - in his shorts, after midnight, 30 miles at sea as his cruise ship chugged on without him - Mike Mankamyer was one lucky guy..
First, somebody saw him fall over his cabin's balcony railing and drop 60 feet to the water below..
Second, they alerted the crew of the Carnival Glory, who quickly noted the ship's position, slowed to a stop and lowered boats for a search..
And third, the Coast Guard was operating a new search-and-rescue planning system called SAROPS.
It quickly assembled real-time data on winds, tides and currents off Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Then it calculated Mankamyer's drop point and possible drift trajectories, and plotted his rescue..
After sunrise March 16, eight hours and 15 miles from where he fell in, Mankamyer was spotted, splashing and waving, by a lookout aboard the 110-foot Coast Guard cutter Chandeleur as it followed the search pattern SAROPS assigned..
A helicopter crew soon plucked him from the water.

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