Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to Ciaran Rooney (via Twitter) for the heads up. AQA offer a service where you can text any question to 63336 (UK) or 57275 (Ireland) and they will find an answer and SMS you back for £1 or €2. This great story (read the lead-in here about how they got [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s all happening this week in at sea (read the Day 3 update on the Portrush Lifeboat Grounding). Overnight a Cargo ferry with roll-on-roll-off cargo and some passengers got hit by a freak wave and was grounded on blackpool beach. The latest news is that the Iris[...] Read More »

UPDATE: Day 3 Videos & Photos, click here. SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - RTE News are reporting that the Portrush lifeboat was thrown onto rocks by a large wave as its crew attended an emergency call last night. It was stuck there on high ground as the tide went out. They attempted to get it of[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Resusi Annie is the most kissed woman in the world, albeit rubber - but little did I know she’s modelled on a real French woman. The Guardian report the following quotes and I’ve “dredged up” (oops no pun intended!) some photos: He based Anne[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ Lunch again! — Howth Coastguard & RNLI were up at 4am yesterday to rescue 4 men from rocks in Howth. Their fishing boat was holed and sunk within minutes. I understood that the All-weather sent in its tender and the inshore brought them back to harbo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Sorry about the cheesy title! Brian mailed me this morning to say their new site at www.doolincoastguard.com had gone live. The Doolin Unit of the Irish Coast Guard is located in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. All volunteers, on-call 24/7/365. If you’[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Call in the crowd! Artificial intelligence is now being used in the form of Amazon Mechanical Turk to track Steve’s position. The idea is to complete simple tasks that people do better than computers by splitting up the images into tiny squares and getting 1000s [...] Read More »