Meanwhile, fellow Queenslander Rodger MacQueen, who has been helping P O Cruises passengers understa

As the eclipse will be best seen from the Pacific, Pacific Dawn, off the north-east corner of Australia, and Pacific Jewel, which will be cruising the Pacific Islands, will both be in prime position to watch the event on November 14, 2012.
Instead of watching the eclipse from his home observatory in Brisbane, astronomy lecturer and member of the major Queensland virtual tour Astronomical society, Peter Anderson, will be onboard Pacific Dawn sharing his lifetime of knowledge of solar eclipses, which he has viewed all around the world.
Meanwhile, fellow Queenslander Rodger MacQueen, who has been helping P O Cruises passengers understand the sky above for more than three years as well as working as an observational astronomy presenter with the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, will give talks on black holes, the Solar System and stellar virtual tour evolution during virtual tour Pacific Jewel s solar eclipse cruise.
virtual tour Grant Holmes Grant features a background with 25 years experience in Tour Operations, Hotel, Cruise, virtual tour Marketing, Sales and Training. His Cruise Industry experience started in 1999 whereby he set up, recruited, trained and developed the First Choice Cruises team and directed operations on the Bolero from inception. His team exceeded high budget expectations by 50% for sales and by 25% for Customer service in the first year and a half of operation. This success led to his appointment at Festival Cruises in 2000. His position quickly evolved to Director of On Board Revenue, On Board Marketing, Shore Excursions Tour Operations. virtual tour He managed virtual tour a 110 million virtual tour euro income generation budget and innovated revenue and customer service linked training virtual tour that delivered a comparative industry best in 2003 for a European fleet of 8 ships averaging virtual tour 45+ euro pppd, whilst optimizing customer service in harmony. Today Grant spearheads Progress International Tourism Business Services Ltd, whereby he comprised virtual tour an excellent team of Consultants and built an impressive client list, featuring Costa Crociere, Aida Cruises, Iberocruceros, Silversea Cruises, Thomson Cruises, the World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations, the Government of Sharjah UAE, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation, the Larnaka Municipality and several international ports and Tourism Companies. Grant is still involved with Off Radar Cruise News and acts in the capacity of Publisher and Founder, ensuring that the original principles and values of the Blog are maintained. Grant Holmes Grant features a background with 25 years experience in Tour Operations, Hotel, Cruise, Marketing, Sales and Training. His Cruise Industry experience started in 1999 whereby he set up, recruited, trained virtual tour and developed the First Choice Cruises team and directed virtual tour operations on the Bolero from inception. His team exceeded high budget expectations by 50% for sales and by 25% for Customer service in the first year and a half of operation. This success led to his appointment at Festival Cruises in 2000. His position quickly evolved to Director of On Board Revenue, On Board Marketing, virtual tour Shore Excursions Tour Operations. He managed a 110 million euro income generation budget and innovated revenue and customer service linked training that delivered a comparative industry best in 2003 for a European fleet of 8 ships averaging 45+ euro pppd, whilst optimizing customer service in harmony. Today Grant spearheads Progress International Tourism Business Services Ltd, whereby he comprised an excellent team of Consultants and built an impressive client list, featuring virtual tour Costa Crociere, Aida Cruises, Iberocruceros, Silversea Cruises, Thomson Cruises, the World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations, the Government of Sharjah UAE, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation, the Larnaka Municipality and several international ports and Tourism Companies. virtual tour Grant is still involved with Off Radar Cruise News and acts in the capacity of Publisher and Founder, ensuring that the original principles and values of the Blog are maintained.
Mike Hood Mike sadly passed away in 2010. He was a marine journalist and media relations specialist with over 30 years experience writing about the international shipping virtual tour industry. He particularly had an in-depth knowledge of the Cruise and Ferry industries. During his illustrious career Mike worked for a number of leading shipping industry titles, including Marine Week, Fairplay, Shipcare and Shiprepair Conversion Technology, as well as freelancing for other blue chip titles such as Lloyd s List, Seatrade Cruise virtual tour Review, Lloyd s Cruise International virtual tour and Cruise Ferry Info. In addition to being the former Off Radar Cruise News Editor, virtual tour he also ran HoodLines PR, which specialised in the handling of marine media relations campaigns for a number of specialist companies virtual tour in the shipping industry. virtual tour Mike s marine PR track record was wide and varied, including handling the media relations for one of the world s leading cruise ship designers, an international ferry operator, as well as a number of specialist marine equipment designers and suppliers to the cruise and ferry industries. Mike Hood will always be remembered at Off Radar Cruise News for the blunt, direct, original and instinctive real life comment that he brought to our Blog.