4 • August 1-14, 2014 • The Log World’s largest rubber duck lost at sea in China
Duck will still make appearance at Tall Ships Festival Los Angeles.
PORT OF LOS ANGELES— How do you lose a 59 foot giant rubber duck? Torrential downpours and heavy flood- ing accomplished that task in China in August.
The loss of the enormous
bath toy won’t impede plans for the duck’s West Coast debut at the Tall Ships Festival Los Angeles on Aug. 20. According to Craig
Samborski, executive producer of the Tall Ships Festival Los
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Retired Coast Guard admiral named first U.S. Arctic Diplomat
WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired Coast Guard admiral was named on July 16 as the first U.S. special representative for Arctic issues, overseeing American policy in the icy region that is becoming a global focus for economic oppor- tunities and security concerns. In a statement, Sec. of State
John Kerry said retired Adm. Robert J. Papp has broad foreign policy experience and a “passion” for the Arctic that makes him the ideal diplomat to advance U.S. interests in the region. “I could not be happier that
Angeles, not only will the gigantic rubber duck be on hand, but will be larger than the 59-foot model last seen in Taiwan. Constructing an original
rubber duck for the event “has been the plan all along,” Samborski said. Dutch artist Florentijn
Hofman’s rubber duck was created to celebrate differ- ences while bringing people together at large events such as the Tall Ships Festival Los Angeles and has made two appearances in the U.S., at unrelated events in Norfolk,
he agreed to postpone his well- deserved retirement and join our effort in a cause about which he is both passionate and wise,” Kerry said of Papp, who stepped down as Coast Guard comman- dant just two months ago. The U.S. next year will chair
the Arctic Council, which is made up of eight nations that reach into the Arctic Circle and aims to protect the thawing region as its seas open to commercial ship- ping traffic. The U.S. touches the Arctic Circle in Alaska, and that state’s two U.S. senators have long pressed the Obama adminis- tration to name a permanent envoy to the region. Other council members are
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden The Arctic is growing hotter
faster than any part of the globe. Global warming has melted sea
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River boating in France Capt. Dave Grundies, U.S. Navy (Ret.) reading the digital edition of The Log onboard Longboat Foresti, cruising France’s Bordeaux Region. Grundies wrote, “The food and wine were superb, of course, but we were most interest- ed in watching the captain and crew take care of the nautical duties.”
Port of Los Angeles home for four days. Los Angeles can also expect to see a miniature 9-foot baby duck frequenting the area in a quest to find its mother leading up to the festival. The
Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “The duck is a big part of
the festival, but the tall ships are also an exceedingly fun part of the event as well,” Samborski said. More than a dozen international and national tall ships will call the
ice to levels that have given rise to what experts describe as a kind of gold rush scramble to the Arctic. U.S. officials estimate the
Arctic holds 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of undiscovered gas deposits. Until recently, how- ever, the resources that could reap hundreds of billions of dol- lars in revenues were frozen over and unreachable. Kerry also named Alaska’s for-
mer lieutenant governor, Fran Ulmer, as a special adviser on Arctic science and policy. Ulmer has chaired the U.S. Arctic Research Commission during the Obama administration.
U.S. Coast Guard busts sailboat out of Arctic ice
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has freed a
baby duck’s planned visits include Hollywood, Venice Beach, Children’s Hospital and city hall. Samborski said he is also
considering a naming contest for the big yellow duck, but for now the bird remains name- less.
Canadian sailboat that became trapped in Arctic ice off the north coast of Alaska. KTUU-TV reports the 36-foot
Altan Girl out of Vancouver was attempting to sail to eastern Canada through the Northwest Passage. It became trapped in ice
northeast of Barrow, the north- ernmost city in the U.S. The Coast Guard cutter Healy
reached the sailboat, and with the Altan Girl in tow, on Saturday, July 12 cut a 12-mile path through ice to open water. The sailboat’s owner says he
intends to wait in Barrow for bet- ter weather and to restock sup- plies. The Healy is on a National
Science Foundation funded research mission in the Arctic. The Coast Guard says the cutter is continuing with its research.
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