
Rio De Janeiro: More than 2,600 barrels of oil may have spilled into the Atlantic ocean because of a leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site, Brazil's environmental protection agency said on Friday. Officials think 200 to 330 barrels of oil leaked each day from November 8 through Tuesday, the Ibama agency said in a statement on its website. Chevron has said that 400 to 650 barrels of oil in...

03:13 AM, Nov 19, 2011

New Delhi: Amidst the doom and gloom there are many Indians who are living examples of courage and decency and who believe in doing constructive work for a better future. South Atlantic Ocean's temperature 9.4 degree celsius- icy, shark infested waters and only the toughest can attempt to take up this extreme challenge. 20-year-old Richa and her sister Reshmi believed they can and they did. These marathon swim sisters made...

09:18 AM, Oct 13, 2011

Paris: French investigators on Tuesday recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, killing all 228 people on board. The machine that records cockpit conversations was located on Monday and raised from the ocean depths on Tuesday, according to BEA, the French agency that probes air accidents. The plane's flight data recorder was pulled out on Sunday, meaning...

05:07 PM, May 03, 2011

Philipsburg: An 85-year-old British sailor who dreamed of crossing the Atlantic on a raft as a young boy completed the journey with three friends Wednesday. The crossing to this Caribbean island, led by Anthony Smith of London, took about two months and was generally smooth except for damage to two rudders on the large, sail-powered raft. "Some people say it was mad," he told The Associated Press when he arrived...

12:22 PM, Apr 07, 2011

Paris: Specialists could start pulling up bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane found on the Atlantic Ocean floor within a month, after the stunning deep-water discovery raised new hope of determining the cause of the 2009 crash. Investigators said on Monday they still haven't found the plane's "black box" flight recorders, and it's unclear whether they remain attached to the fuselage, or whether they're even still intact after...

10:00 AM, Apr 05, 2011

French officials give no indication they are ending their own search efforts. ...

12:35 PM, Jun 27, 2009

French military ships detect signal from the black boxes of Flight 447. ...

01:02 PM, Jun 23, 2009

Cause of crash is not yet known, but investigators "getting a little bit closer". ...

07:42 PM, Jun 17, 2009

N-armed submarines from Britain and France collided under Atlantic Ocean. ...

07:03 PM, Feb 16, 2009

India's Bhavik Gandhi became the first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean unassisted after a 106-day journey. ...

05:42 PM, Jun 15, 2007