Running with just one operator and on one engine, there was no negative effect on Team CRC in Sunday’s racing on Lake Havasu.
CRC’s 39-foot MTI catamaran finished the Pacific Offshore Powerboat Racing Association’s 2nd Annual Lake Havasu Grand Prix two laps ahead of the nearest competition.
Just eight boats lined up for the 49-mile race that looped from Thompson Bay to Copper Canyon and back again. Each racer had to complete 10 laps of the 4.9-mile oval.
Only one incident occurred during the race, when a monohull boat failed to reduce speed in turn four, flipping the boat and ejecting both operators. Neither suffered serious injury…Â Details
Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006.
That year high sea temperatures caused massive and severe coral bleaching in the Keppel Islands, in the southern part of the GBR. The damaged reefs were quickly smothered by a single species of seaweed – an event that can spell the total loss of the corals.
However, a lucky combination of rare circumstances meant the reefs were able to achieve a spectacular recovery, with abundant corals re-established in a single year, says Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pulido…Â Details & Pictures
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