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Richards is currently CEO of Grand Banks as a result of the acquisition. As a professional sailor, Richards has sailed in 2 Americas Cup challenges, has achieved World Match Racing victories, [ 2 ] has won the Sydney to Gold Coast yacht race, [ 3 ] the 2003 Admirals Cup , [ 4 ] and has taken out line honours and handicap honours in the ...
The Banks dory, or Grand Banks dory, is a type of dory. They were used as traditional fishing boats from the 1850s on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland . [ 1 ] The Banks dory is a small, open, narrow, flat-bottomed and slab-sided boat with a particularly narrow transom .
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A team of divers were sent down to mount a plaque on the ocean bottom in 19 m of water, the first time man had walked upon the surface of the Grand Banks. A 1965 article in the Geological Society of America Bulletin lists their co-ordinates as 46° 25'N 50° 49'W, following an expedition by H.D. Lilly.
Georges Bank is the most westward of the great Atlantic fishing banks. The now-submerged portions of the North American mainland are comprised in the continental shelf running from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to Georges. Georges Bank was part of the North American mainland as recently as 12,000 years ago. [1]
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On October 3, 1864, the bank voted to surrender the state charter and begin operating as a national bank. December 31, 1864, it received a federal bank charter and was renamed National Grand Bank of Marblehead, commencing national operations on February 1, 1865. [1] In 2002, the bank opened a student-operated branch in Marblehead High School.
Titanic Canyon is a submarine canyon located south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada.Its name was proposed in 1991 by marine geologist Alan Ruffman in remembrance of British passenger liner RMS Titanic, the wreck of which lies about 34 km (21 mi) south of the head of Titanic Canyon on its eastern slope.