RUNNER’S SMILES AHEAD OF KAKA John (58) passed Brazil star in marathon
Those drinking two or three cups of decaffeinated coffee a day were 14 per cent less likely to die.
Two or three instants a day carried a 27 per cent reduced chance of death, and ground coffee drinkers consuming the same amount had an 11 per cent reduction.
Study author Professor Peter Kistler of Melbourne, Australia said: “In this large, observational study, ground, instant and decaffeinated coffee were associated with equivalent reductions in the incidence of cardiovascular disease and death from cardiovascular disease or any cause.”
Titanic, SS Mesaba
THE ship which sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic before it sank has been found lying on the bed of the Irish Sea.
The merchant steamship SS Mesaba transmitted a caution signal to the Belfast-built RMS Titanic while it crossed the Atlantic.
The message was received, but never reached the bridge.
Later that night the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic famously hit an iceberg and plummeted nearly two-and-a-half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.
Some 1,500 lives were lost on April 15, 1912 — in what has become the world’s most famous shipwreck.
Now the wreck of the ship which tried to warn her crew of the iceberg threat has now been finally located using state-of-the-art technology.
The SS Mesaba continued as a merchant ship for six more years before being torpedoed by a German U-boat while part of a convoy in September 1918.
It was sunk by the submarine U-118 of the Kriegsmarine while the convoy was making a return voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia.
Twenty lives were lost, including that of the ship’s commander.
Multibeam sonar equipment has now helped researchers at Bangor University in north Wales identify the wreck and reveal her final position for the first time, 21 miles off the Irish coast.
For marine archaeologists, multibeam sonar has the potential to be as impactful as the use of aerial photography was for landscape archaeology.
Experts on the survey vessel were able to determine the wreck had been previously mis-identified as another ship.
But the sonar technology gave them
A MIDDLE-AGED Irish marathon runner has told how ex-Brazil star Kaka fist-bumped him as he passed the World Cup winner at the Berlin marathon.
John Casey (58) left Kaka (40) trailing, just like the Brazilian used to do to defenders for AC Milan and Real Madrid.
A brilliant photograph captured the moment when an exhausted John, from Cork, nipped in front of Kaka during his first-ever marathon – while on a trip to visit his son Jack in Berlin.
John yesterday revealed that the pair fist-bumped each other just a moment earlier during the gruelling 42km (26mile) marathon.
Detail
He said he was “in pain” at the time and revealed: “I passed him at mile 21. I call it the ‘Covid handshake’ where you do a fist-bump.
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the detail to prove the wreck was in fact the Mesaba.
The vessel is one of 273 shipwrecks lying in 7,500sq miles of the Irish Sea.
The wreckages were scanned and cross-referenced against the UK Hydrographic Office’s database.
It was thought that 101 wrecks were unidentified, but the number of newly identified wrecks was higher because many, including the SS Mesaba, had been wrongly identified in the past.
Details of all the wrecks have been published in Echoes from the Deep by Dr Innes McCartney of Bangor University, conducted under a Leverhulme Fellowship at Bournemouth University.
“We exchanged fist-bumps as we were passing and we smiled.
“The photograph has gone viral. The last 48 hours have been absolutely mad.
“Kaka seemed like a really nice guy, there are no airs and graces about him. He’s a world star, but he had a great way with the crowd.”
The 2007 Ballon d’Or winner hung up his boots back in 2017 and is keeping up his fitness by doing some long-distance running.
But he was unable to keep pace with Togher athlete John.
John clocked in at an impressive three hours, 30 minutes, and 29 seconds with Kaka running a further eight minutes behind, finishing on three hours and 38 minutes.
He told Claire Byrne on RTE Radio 1’s Today Show: “I’m really grateful to my athletics club Togher AC for all the support.”
The race winner was Eliud Kipchoge, from Kenya, who broke the world record and set a new marathon best.