Yearly Archives: 2012

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfastIn the 60s, the TV hit Flipper made us all fall in love with dolphins. Rick O'Barry is the man who trained the dolphins to do the tricks that were so endearing — and that spawned a whole industry of sea worlds and marine worlds and flipperworlds around the globe, committing dolphins to a lifelong sentence of enslavement and humiliation, all in the name of our entertainment.These days Rick O'Barry feels sickeningly guilty about that, and has spent decades since dedicated to freeing dolphins. That mission has seen him arrested all around the world, thrown into jail, banned from conferences [...]

On his attempt to cross the 200km wide Red Sea from El Gouna, Egypt to Duba, Saudi-Arabia the Polish kite surfer Janek Lisewski had to learn that he cannot (as he put it) “take the crown of the seas” and beat the force of nature. After leaving El Gouna at 6.30am on the 2nd of March, the kite surfer safely checked in until reaching Ras Mohammed then, as far as we know, his signal was lost. At 6pm on the same day, almost 12 hours after he started, the first SOS call was received. Read more

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Sharm has a new kids clothes shop - Jean Bourget. Jean Bourget stands for quality kids wear from France produced since more than 50 years. Jean Bourget children's clothes possess a modern style from casual clothes to ultra smart. All their designer clothing is produced using high quality fabrics. The shop also has other quality brands, like Madonna and… It serves all ages from 0 to 12 years. All products of the shop are produced in Egypt, mainly for export, but with Jean Bourget in town you can get a selection of those clothes here in Sharm. Pass by and [...]