Icebergs drifting North from Antarctica have been getting closer and closer to Australia and New Zealand, and have more recently began to constitute a fairly serious threat to shipping in that area. Navigation is made more dangerous as the large icebergs move North into warmer temperatures and begin to break up, scattering hundreds of smaller yet still dangerous icebergs.

There is a growing environmental catastrophe ongoing in the Timor Sea off Australia. Oil and gas condensate has been spilling into the sea since August 21st, when a blowout occurred on the West Atlas mobile platform in the Montara oil field. The blowout forced the evacuation of all 69 workers on the platform, and has challenged response agencies in cleaning-up the resulting massive oil slick. The leaking well head is owned by Thailand’s national petroleum exploration company, PTT Exploration and Production.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWvROmfaoQ] ~Article~ The Australian submarine HMAS WALLER fired a super torpedo, the MK 48 into the decommissioned USS FLETCHER DD-992 as part of RIMPAC 2008, a joint Naval exercise off the coast of Hawaii. Check out the video of the explosion and resulting sinking. Apparently the MK 48 torpedo is now the world’s deadliest torpedo, [...]