# pacific-ocean - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
Ben Lecomte’s swim between Tokyo and San Francisco will take between six to eight months.
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# pacific-ocean - Monday 21 May, 2018
One giant lava flow grew to six meters in height and blocked a portion of a motorway.
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# pacific-ocean - Sunday 28 January, 2018
Six adults and a baby were on board the dinghy.
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# pacific-ocean - Tuesday 31 October, 2017
Doubts have been raised about their story.
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# pacific-ocean - Friday 27 October, 2017
Jennifer Appel Tasha Fuiaba’s sailboat engine broke on 30 May and they have been stranded at sea since.
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# pacific-ocean - Saturday 27 August, 2016
The men were stranded for about 8 days.
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# pacific-ocean - Friday 22 August, 2014
… however things will start heating up rapidly after that.
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# pacific-ocean - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
The cable, which will deliver speeds of up to 60Tb/s and is being backed by six companies including Google, will be ready around mid-2016.
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# pacific-ocean - Saturday 2 August, 2014
Dubliner Philip Cavanagh recently became the first Irishman ever to row the 2,000-plus miles journey.
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# pacific-ocean - Sunday 29 June, 2014
Irishman Philip Cavanagh chats to TheScore.ie while rowing a 2,100-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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# pacific-ocean - Saturday 29 March, 2014
Aoife Ní Mhaoileoin, a doctor from Dublin, is preparing to undertake an intensive 2,400 mile-journey from California to Hawaii.
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# pacific-ocean - Sunday 17 November, 2013
Philip Cavanagh is hoping to raise €100,000 as part of the challenge, which will involve roughly four weeks of continuous rowing.
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# pacific-ocean - Wednesday 9 October, 2013
Tons of highly toxic water spilled out when workers removed the wrong pipe during works.
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# pacific-ocean - Monday 18 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know at the start of this Bank Holiday Monday.
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# pacific-ocean - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
Latest reports suggest that between 60 to 70 homes have been damaged by waves crashing into at least four villages on Santa Cruz Islands.
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# pacific-ocean - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Homes nearby were shaken but there have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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# pacific-ocean - Sunday 25 November, 2012
Tokelau islands in the Pacific have population of 1,500 and were using 2,000 barrels of diesel a year to power generators.
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# pacific-ocean - Monday 14 May, 2012
The Panamanian fisherman watched his two companions die after a US cruise liner sailed past their distressed vessel in the middle of the Pacific and failed to stop.
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# pacific-ocean - Wednesday 7 September, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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The president of the Pacific island says the plan might sound like science fiction, but insists every option should be explored as the sea level rises and threatens Kiribati residents.
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# pacific-ocean - Saturday 20 August, 2011
No damage or casualties yet reported in 7.5-magnitude quake in ‘Ring of Fire’ region.
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# pacific-ocean - Sunday 13 March, 2011
JAPAN’S METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY has said that any radioactive material being emitted from the Fukushima I nuclear plant, where the outer containment building around one plant exploded yesterday, will be carried out to the Pacific Ocean by the overnight wind. It has also confirmed, meanwhile, that the Shinmoedake volcano near the country’s southern tip has also begun to erupt, though it could not ascertain as yet whether the eruption was related to the ongoing seismic activity. The main quake from Friday has been upgraded from magnitude 8.9 to 9, it further added.
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# pacific-ocean - Friday 11 March, 2011
Some 11,000 people have been evacuated from the Pacific islands by the Russian authorities in anticipation of a tsunami.
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Some sun with a shower
Max: 12 °C
Min: 7 °C
Spotty showers in the afternoon
Max: 15 °C
Min: 6 °C
