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Reuters
a day ago
- Business
- Reuters
Defence and underwater business drive Fincantieri's first-half revenues
ROME, July 30 (Reuters) - Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri ( opens new tab reported on Wednesday a 45% rise in core profits and a 24% rise in revenues in the first half of 2025, with particularly strong growth in the key defence and underwater businesses. "Our results are not merely figures, but a snapshot of a company that is turning the complexity of the global scenario into a driver of growth and value creation," Chief Executive Pierroberto Folgiero said in a statement. The company's order book almost doubled to 14.7 billion euros in the first half of this year, up from 7.6 billion in the first six months of 2024 and reaching a record level backlog at 57.7 billion euros. While confirming its full-year revenue and core profit margin guidance, the state-controlled group improved its forecast for its net debt to core profit ratio - or its reliance on debt - to between 2.7 and 3.0, from a previously estimated 3.3. Revenues rose to 4.58 billion euros ($5.30 billion) from 3.68 billion euros in the same period the previous year, and above expectations, lifted by orders from the Italian Navy and deals with Indonesia. ($1 = 0.8672 euros)
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Yahoo
A vehicle was found in Quebec's Mille-Îles River. Police say it could be linked to a missing persons case
On Sunday morning, a vehicle that could be linked to a missing persons case was found in the Mille-Îles River, off the shores of the Deux-Montagnes municipality, Que. La Régie de police du lac des Deux-Montagnes, the local police force, says it received a phone call from a man who's part of a dive team about a vehicle in the river, near the Croissant du Grand-Moulin. The divers belong to Exploring with a mission, a non-profit organization that specializes in missing persons cases and detecting vehicles underwater. They document their work on their YouTube channel. A security perimeter was set up by police after their call and they are currently investigating the area to confirm certain information obtained by the divers who made the discovery.
CBC
20-07-2025
- CBC
A vehicle was found in Quebec's Mille-Îles River. Police say it could be linked to a missing persons case
On Sunday morning, a vehicle that could be linked to a missing persons case was found in the Mille-Îles River, off the shores of the Deux-Montagnes municipality, Que. La Régie de police du lac des Deux-Montagnes, the local police force, says it received a phone call from a man who's part of a dive team about a vehicle in the river, near the Croissant du Grand-Moulin. The divers belong to Exploring with a mission, a non-profit organization that specializes in missing persons cases and detecting vehicles underwater. They document their work on their YouTube channel. A security perimeter was set up by police after their call and they are currently investigating the area to confirm certain information obtained by the divers who made the discovery.
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Yahoo
Spectacular moment off Aussie coast leaves woman's heart racing
A woman's 'once-in-a-lifetime' underwater encounter off Australia's south coast has been captured on camera, but it's a moment she won't soon forget. Christine Watterson and her longtime friend Marlon Quinn ventured out on his boat a couple of weeks ago with the hope of finding 'some clear patches of water to practice freediving' near Cape Conran, a coastal town about 400km east of Melbourne. After discovering 'a nice, quiet spot', the pair plunged themselves into the icy ocean and started doing some 'warm up dives', but what started as a typical day soon turned into a 'rare and humbling experience'. Just moments later, an inquisitive whale approached Christine and Marlon to say hello. '[It] was a huge shock at first because it was a massive animal that just appeared out of nowhere,' she told Yahoo News on Sunday. 'We very quickly realised it was a southern right whale.' Southern right whales are considered endangered in Australian waters. The protected species, which weigh about 80 tonnes, visits the country's southern coast between May and October, migrating to warmer waters for breeding and calving. Aussie divers' hearts race as whale circles for an hour For about an hour, the whale swam in 'big, slow circles' around the pair and the boat, Christine said. 'On several occasions, the whale swam so close to us that we had to move out of its way! It was so gentle and curious, taking its time to check us out. Our hearts were racing the whole time,' she told Yahoo. 'I was feeling pretty nervous but as time progressed, I started to relax. All I could think about was how incredibly privileged we were to share this encounter with such a beautiful animal.' Marlon was able to grab his underwater camera from the boat and managed to snap a couple of spectacular images, one of which shows the whale just metres away from Christine as she swims near the surface. 📸 Rare photos capture incredible whale rescue off Australian coast 🌊 Visitors spot incredible sight in tiny Aussie bay: 'Very special' 🛥️ Tourists and locals 'drop everything' to glimpse rare sight in boat harbour The whale occasionally disappeared for several minutes before suddenly reappearing. 'Eventually, the whale disappeared and didn't return, and we knew that was the end of our encounter. We climbed back on to the boat and we were completely elated!' Christine, who has been freediving and spearfishing along the coastline for almost seven years, said while she and Marlon have both had 'incredible experiences' with wild animals in the ocean before, this one was particularly magical. 'This was probably the most incredible wildlife interaction I have ever had in the ocean!' Earlier this month, swimmers in Queensland's Hervey Bay were left with tears in their eyes after two humpback whales greeted them. Do you have a story tip? Email: newsroomau@ You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube.
Irish Times
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Mikel Murfi's underwater production is surely one of the most unusual, intriguing and oddly life-enhancing things about
Oh... Galway Atlantaquaria, Salthill ★★★★★ When you've done it all performance-wise - mime, theatre, dance, movement, acrobatics, as actor/writer/director Mikel Murfi has, where do you go? Underwater, clearly. Murfi's new show is performed in a huge, room-height water tank in an aquarium, filled with fish. It is surely one of the most unusual, intriguing and oddly life-enhancing things about. His idea, floating about (sorry) for years, was for a movement show underwater, seeing the human body performing in water, and how 'it might have another kind of poetry to it other than the body moving in air'. A body, his body, sturdy and strong, delicate and nimble, underwater is like a spaceman's, where movement is cushioned, slow, softer, otherworldly. The basics: a large stone-faced tank in Salthill's aquarium, homeplace to masses of swimming fish, Wreakfish, Gilthead Bream, European Bass, Starry Smoothhound. In among them descends Murfi, an oxygen feed in his mouth, wearing shirt and trousers and very basic goggles. He proceeds to perform a show that is gob-smackingly skilled, by turns serenely calming and funny. READ MORE He seems to do a bit of sea scavenging and cleaning up, he does exercises, he tells a string of fish jokes (did you hear about the crab at the disco? He pulled a mussel. Tee-hee-hee) and corny riddles, softly falling about the place. He sings, he dances. His is a voice-over, along with subtle water sounds, and world sounds (sound design by Sandra O'Mahony). Sometimes he engages with the fish, directing their traffic. The fish are nonplussed. He moves floatily. He occasionally freaks the audience out slightly. Murfi performs this 45-minute show underwater, breathing through an oxygen feed. The entire show is startling, mesmerising. Intrinsic to all this is a gorgeous score by Declan Gibbons, simple then sophisticated, perfectly synched with the show, not just in terms of timing (but that too: this must have been rehearsed to extreme), but tone and feel, too. (It's on Spotify; check it out). Aside from the audaciousness of the concept and the precision and beauty of its execution, directed by Kellie Hughes, this plays with the notion of watching. We are watching Murfi. Can he see us? Can he hear us? The fish are expressionless, as fish tend to be. They seem to give him his space and just go about their business. Are they watching him? What do they make of him? The fish swim around, sometimes towards the glass, and us, then divert. Can they see us? They're used to be being watched. We, the small audience, are intruding on their world, and Murfi's. Murfi is intruding too, benignly, doing the most unlikely things underwater. They are oblivious, it seems. This is not as creepy as it sounds. Rather it's intriguing; a really difficult physical feat but also a thing of beauty, in its cushioned, slow world, linked to ours by the music. [ As Galway's arts festival opens, the city's long-expected cultural space inches slowly towards planning this year Opens in new window ] There's a simplicity and purity to the show but the mechanics of making it must've been anything but simple, with years in the conception and in the making. There's an expert dive team, and behind it all, Loco and Reckless Productions, Glór in Ennis and Galway International Arts Festival . Obviously it's inspiring to make a bonkers idea work, and the actuality of it is amusing and soothing. This is just the kind of ambitious madness, beautiful stretching of boundaries, that you want in a festival. Fin. (Sorry.) And: breathe. Until July 26th. Limited audience; sold out
