LOOKING IN ALL OF THE WRONG
PLACES: The Sunday London Times recently advised single women
wanting to “land a wealthy catch” to
go to the nearest dive club, where
they will find a record number of 25-
35-year-old men with an average
income of $50,000. Diver magazine
reported that the Times advised
taking a trip on a live-aboard, where
“lonely men,” they say, outnumber
women by almost three-to-one. They
say divers are good marriage material
because “almost 80 percent have a
university education and 15 percent
earn more than 100,000 a year.” They
quoted a live-aboard instructor who
said, “Diving is one of the most erotic
experiences you can have outside the
bedroom,” because the buddy system
requires you “to hold hands.” They
added: “When you get onto a real
dive boat, the blokes are usually
falling over themselves to get to be
the woman’s buddy.”
BLACKBEARD'S BOOTY: Archeologists
excavating a shipwreck near Beaufort
Inlet off North Carolina think they
might have found Queen Anne’s Revenge,
a 90' vessel that served as a slave ship
before it became the flagship of the
pirate Blackbeard. Sand apparently
covered the wreck for nearly 300 years,
but excavation has uncovered several
items archaeologists think could be
from Blackbeard’s ship, including 18
cannons, a musket brace, a piece of
gold-specked lead shot, and a 2-gram
gold nugget. Edward Teach, the
brigand who became the infamous
Blackbeard, survived the 1718 sinking
of Revenge only to be captured later and
executed on Ocracoke Island.
LA NIÑA PREDICTIONS: According to
scientists at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
National Centers for Environmental
Prediction, the current La Niña will
continue through next winter. La
Niña triggers global weather changes,
including an active Atlantic hurricane
season. NOAA scientists anticipate at
least 3 major storms this season, so
keep this in mind when booking
hurricane season bargains in the
Caribbean this year.