Posted on 01/16/2005 2:12:44 AM PST by nickcarraway
LOS ANGELES Actor Ted Danson, who served drinks on the TV show "Cheers," used a bottle of bubbly to christen a ship that will search the high seas for signs of pollution and threatened marine life.
Danson on Friday christened the 71-foot catamaran Ranger at Marina del Rey.
He is a board member of the conservation group Oceana, which plans to sail the vessel on a five-month, 11,000-nautical mile voyage to areas of Central America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe that are threatened by pollution and overfishing.
"Ranger will be Oceana's eyes and ears in the oceans," Danson said. "It will enable us to record visually the wonders of the deep as well as the horrors of what is happening to our oceans and the marine life they sustain.
"If we can make all this come alive in people's living rooms, we may get them to join our worldwide campaign to save the oceans," he said.
Was he in blackface again and did he invite the Royal heirs from England?
Now that would be a photo op. Invite John Kerry along and a "Photo Oops" is guaranteed.
(Kerry's house (A) is very near to Cheers (B)...0.4 miles away. Wonder if he was there that night too? :) )
With--what?? Three fifths, five eigths?--of the surface of our planet covered with water, seems to me as how the ocean is winning anyway. We need to beat'em back a little bit!
Unarmed on a catamaran - stupid.
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