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Breaking News: Cuban Fighter Jet Trailing Unresponsive Plane Over Atlantic

Scary … Unresponsive Plane Flying Over The Atlantic Ocean A small aircraft is currently being trailed after its pilot became unresponsive. The North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD initially sent out two American fighter jets to track the plane but now that it’s in Cuban airspace, a Cuban fighter jet is monitoring its activity. CNN reports : A Cuban fighter jet Friday was trailing a small aircraft that was unresponsive over the Atlantic Ocean and flying over Cuban airspace, NORAD said. The U.S. military launched a pair of jet fighters to trail the aircraft, but the U.S. planes broke off before reaching Cuban airspace 12 miles off the island’s coast, NORAD said. The plane was cruising at about 25,000 feet. Ted Soliday, executive director of the Naples, Florida, airport, where the plane was headed, told CNN that he did not know how many people are on board the six-seat aircraft. It’s believed the plane could be running out of fuel. “Once it gets up that high, it can cruise at good speed with low fuel use,” he said. “Five hours is a long time for that airplane.” Two F-15s had been flying with the plane east of Florida. The windows, according to a NORAD spokesman, were frosted and it was unknown how much fuel was left. NORAD was in touch with Cuban authorities via the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. military jets will not enter Cuban airspace, a NORAD spokesman said. The Socata TBM-700 light business and utility aircraft departed from Rochester, New York, with a flight plan to land in Naples, NORAD said. Some fear that the occupants onboard are unconscious due to hypoxia; an inadequate amount of oxygen. SMH…this is so sad, that plane’s eventually going to run out of gas… Wikipedia

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Celebrity Cribs: Take A Look Inside The $4 Million Miami Condo That Drake Sold Heat Baller Mario Chalmers [Photos]

OVO Realty? Via Realtor Opulent. Lavish. Extravagant. These are just a few of the words that come to mind on looking at the condo—the 5,500-square-foot condo—that two-time NBA champion Mario Chalmers has listed for sale in Miami. That’s 5,500 square feet … in a condo. Our brains hurt just thinking about that. (Per the fine folks at the Los Angeles Times, the asking price is $4 million.) This is the world of celebrity real estate, and thus, a world of material excess. The property, which the Miami Heat point guard purchased for $2.4 million from rap superstar Drake back in 2012, has five bedrooms and five full bathrooms—did we mention that this is a condo?—and sits perched high above Biscayne Bay and the emerald-green Atlantic Ocean in the celebrity playground of Miami. Former famous rapper/singer owner aside, this places is flooded with features. Floor-to-ceiling glass around the perimeter of the baller’s home seem to go on endlessly (seriously … the ceilings in here are so high that the photographer couldn’t get the entire view in the pictures). There’s a chef-quality kitchen with all the requisite high-end cooking paraphernalia, a full-service wet bar, a den, a game room with billiards table, two laundry rooms (do celebrities create more dirty laundry than the rest of us?), four parking spaces (natch), and terraces that provide views of the water positively to die for Flip the page to see more pics of how Drake and Mario used to live. Images via Realtor

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Long Island Earthquake map 2010

According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake had a magnitude of 3.9 and struck at around 10:45 am. The center of the Long island earthquake was located 100 miles off the shores of Southampton in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the second earth movement residents of Long Island experience; back in June they felt the earthquake that took place in eastern Canada. A minor earthquake that was felt as far away as Vermont rocked an area underneath the Atlantic Ocean near Long Island on Tuesday

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At Least 1.3 Million Sharks Were Killed by Industrial Fishing in 2008

A little photoshop fun! Photo: egarc2 , Flickr, CC Many of Them From Endangered Species According to a new report by Oceana , an important ocean conservation organization, more than 1.3 million highly migratory sharks were caught in the Atlantic Ocean during 2008, without international fisheries management. The actual number is probably significantly higher than that, but many countries aren’t reporting shark catches or underreporting them, so it’s hard to know exactly how bad the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Guess the Bronzed Bod!

Can you guess which de-weaved blonde beach -goer dominated the Atlantic Ocean on her personal watercraft yesterday? Read more

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Hurricane Bill gains punch as first of Atlantic season (AFP via Yahoo! News)

The first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season, Bill, strengthened Monday as it churned toward the US mainland, while another sizeable storm lost punch at landfall in Florida, weather officials said.

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Hurricane Bill bound for Americas (UPI)

MIAMI, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Hurricane Bill was strengthening Tuesday over the Atlantic Ocean on a westward path projected to pass the northern Caribbean, U.S. forecasters said.

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Bill could be major hurricane; Claudette soaks part of Southeast (CNN)

Hurricane Bill was churning in the Atlantic Ocean early Monday evening with winds of 90 mph (145 kph), and forecasters said the storm — still far from any shore — could become a major hurricane by Wednesday.

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Bill could be major hurricane; Claudette soaks part of Southeast (CNN)