2012 Snowmobile Winter X Games

Sunday night in the 2012 Winter X Games Heath Frisby says hes bringing the first ever front flip to the X games. He was inspired by the Australian Motocross rider Jackson Strong who front-flipped his way to gold in the 2011 Moto X Best trick. Frisby had secured a total of six Winter X games medals. On Friday he played it safe to save up for his final trick on Sunday. He tried to keep the flip under the radar as not to spoil the surprise, but as Sunday neared the news got out and people were talking about. On Sunday he completed the flip and it secured him the gold medal he wanted.

  http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/winter/2012/story/_/id/7515215/heath-frisby-planning-do-first-ever-snowmobile-frontflip-wx-best-trick

Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dQLCO9JkVeE

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Latest Cruise

The work efforts on the cruise ship that ran aground on the 13th is back in full swing after there was suspicion of the ship sinking to the lower sea bed. The ship has 500 gallons of fuel on board and the coast guard was afraid of it leaking out into the sea. A firefighter spokesman said that the search and rescue dive teams can continue despite the the health concerns from decomposing food from the ship. The search and rescue efforts and pumping of fuel are working in tandem to get things moving faster. Out of the 4,200 on board 13 have been confirmed dead and there are 19 know missing. Still passengers said they will still go on other cruises despite the mishap they encountered.  





http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/10181857-418/italian-official-grounded-cruise-ship-stable.html

Cruise Ship Wreckage

On January 13, 2012; just off the coast of Italy a cruise ship named the Costa Concordia hit the rocky coast and started to sink. The passengers said that once the lights went out it created chaos and wide spread panic. The impact created a large hole in the side of the ship letting it take on water and creating it to lean to one side. The life boats were deployed and had people packed full trying to escape. During the havoc there was a total 28 people missing and they have confirmed that 11 of them have died from the wreckage. Italy's Coast Guard has been searching for the missing passengers and crew members in the wreckage. The captain ordered to abandon ship and was later forced back on his cruise liner to coordinate rescue efforts. After all of this the captain is being blamed for commanding the ship off course.  





http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/world/europe/italy-cruise-main/index.html?hpt=hp_t1