Celebrate the Sea images

Staff · Issue 15, Oct/Nov 2003 · pp. 42–44

42 Celebrate the Sea in Kuala Lumpur was a stunning success. Visitors from all over the world flew into KL for 3 days of films and seminars. The photo and video competitions plus the pre-event shoot-out kept the judges busy and final results took many hours of deliberation. Special thanks to our judging jury. Contestants came from more than 20 countries and the quality was very high. For the full details visit http://www.celebratethesea.oneocean.com/indexctsfest.htm Some results from Celebrate the Sea 43 44 On March 27th 1943 HMS Dasher, a hastily converted aircraft carrier, mysteriously exploded and sank in the Clyde within eight minutes. Of the 528 men on board, only 149 survived. 379 lives were lost. The Government kept this an absolute secret but in the late 1990’s information began to emerge that one of the bodies from the Dasher was used in Operation Mincemeat to dupe the Germans a…