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An Exclusive Look Inside the Sea Ray Factory: Exploring the New 370 Sundancer

Sea Ray Factory Tour

We were thrilled to visit the Sea Ray factory in sunny Florida, where we were treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the manufacturing process of the new 370 Sundancer. We also got a glimpse of the 400 SLX, another impressive model in the Sea Ray line-up. The passion and dedication of the team at the factory was evident in every aspect of the boat-building process.

Exploring the Sea Ray 370 Sundancer

Stepping onto the 370 Sundancer, we immediately noticed the spacious platform and convenient storage options. One standout feature was the electric sun awning, perfect for providing shade on a hot day. The boat also offers a comfortable seating area that can easily convert into a sunbed.

The helm boasts a double seat with a double bolster, clear glass dashboard, and an electric sunroof. The controls and navigation systems are state-of-the-art, including the optional Axius joystick and the latest Mercury controls. The SeaDek flooring adds a touch of luxury underfoot, making it comfortable to move around the boat.

Bow Seating and Interior

The bow seating on the 370 Sundancer is truly impressive. Comparable to the space found on a 50 or 55-foot boat, it offers ample room to relax and soak up the sun. The attention to detail is evident in the matching speaker grilles and upholstery, which adds a cohesive, polished look to the entire boat.

Below deck, the 370 Sundancer provides plenty of seating, a galley area equipped with a microwave and fridge, and a stylish wall covering that adds a touch of elegance. The boat also features a spacious and well-lit bathroom, complete with a sink and toilet.

For those who enjoy watching TV on their boat, the 370 Sundancer comes equipped with a hidden 32-inch TV and a large fusion sound system. Additionally, there's another double bed and ample storage space, making it a comfortable and functional space for overnight stays.

Quality and Craftsmanship

Our visit to the Sea Ray factory left us truly impressed by the quality of craftsmanship and the dedication of the team behind these boats. The thickness and strength of the GRP and engineering are a testament to the durability and reliability of Sea Ray vessels.

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Sea Ray celebrates 50 years in Merritt Island

With more than six decades of manufacturing one of the most globally recognized brand of boats in the marine industry, Sea Ray is celebrating 50 years at its Merritt Island, Fla. facility and honoring the location’s history and achievements.

Sea Ray first made its home in Florida when it set up a design and development department in 1972. The Merritt Island facility was established the following year with production beginning early in 1973. It was the first of several plants Sea Ray would open in Florida, and it initially produced SRV 220 and SRV 240 models, the largest boats in the Sea Ray fleet at the time. Later, it went on to manufacture the Sundancer line and the company’s first boats 30 feet and longer.

Today, Sea Ray’s Merritt Island facility, now known as the Brunswick Integrated Manufacturing Center (BIMC), produces the new Sundancer 370, Sundancer 370 Outboard, SLX 400 and SLX 400 Outboard, and provides multiple manufacturing services for Brunswick brands. It employs more than 425 team members locally and maintains operations in its long-standing facility. With an incredibly loyal and committed crew, BIMC has over 83 team members who have been with the plant 20 years or more.

“It’s quite an achievement to be celebrating 50 years of manufacturing award-winning boats in Merritt Island,” said Keith Yunger, Sea Ray president. “It’s impressive to look back through Sea Ray’s history and celebrate the contributions and advancements this facility and its amazing team members have made to the brand – one of our most popular models, the Sundancer, was created here. I’m excited for the future of Sea Ray and the innovative boats that will be built here.”

Throughout its 50-year history, Sea Ray has also maintained a long-standing relationship in partnership with the local Merritt Island community through outreach efforts spearheaded by its team members. Showcasing their appreciation for the community they call home, Sea Ray employees have devoted their time and resources to make a positive impact on the area and support their neighbors. Recent contributions include coordinating a school supply drive benefiting Lewis Carroll School, sponsoring the Thunder on Cocoa Beach offshore boat races, and sheltering vessels belonging to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Coast Guard at facility docks in Sykes Creek during Hurricanes Ian and Nicole.

BIMC is currently helmed by Patrick Breckenridge, who joined Brunswick Boat Group as the director of operations in 2022. Patrick leads the production operations for the Sundancer 370 and SLX 400 model families, as well as integrated manufacturing support for other Brunswick Boat Group brands. He brings his expertise and experience of manufacturing and delivering complex products to highly discerning customers who expect the highest standards of quality that Sea Ray is known for.

“I’m honored to be a part of the Merritt Island team during such a special time in Sea Ray’s history,” said Breckenridge. “It’s clear Sea Ray’s success throughout the past five decades is due to its passionate team of the best boat builders in the world. Sea Ray and I are both committed to supporting our invaluable employees, as well as the Merritt Island and Brevard County communities, as we work together to begin Sea Ray’s next chapter.”

A native of Brevard County, Patrick brings more than 15 years of experience from the aerospace and space industries. Most recently, he was the senior production manager at Embraer Executive Jets in the assembly of four to 12-passenger custom business jets leading to FAA and ANAC (Brazil) certification, as well as the manufacturing operations for seats in commercial and business jet aircraft. While at Embraer, he held leadership roles for North American and international, logistics, supply chain, and production planning. He also holds a Green Belt from Arizona State University and was a certified Kaizen Event planner for both the U.S. and Brazil by Embraer. He has hosted over 100 Kaizen events for operational improvements.

Celebration events are planned throughout 2023.

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Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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The drive from Norilsk airport to the city takes you past mile after mile of crumbling, Soviet-era factories.

It looks like an endless, rusting scrapyard - a jumble of pipes, industrial junk and frost-bitten brickwork. If you were looking for an industrial apocalypse film setting, this would be your place - but you're unlikely to get the permissions.

Norilsk was built in Stalin's times by gulag prisoners. This gritty industrial city is a testament to their endurance both of the cruelty of Stalin's regime and of the harsh polar climate. There were no thoughts then on how to build to protect the environment, just to survive it.

Vasily Ryabinin doesn't think much has changed, at least in ecological terms. He used to work for the local branch of the federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, but quit in June after exposing what he says was a failure to investigate properly the environmental impact of the gigantic diesel spill which poured into two Arctic rivers in late May.

At 21,000 tonnes, it was the largest industrial spill in the polar Arctic .

Despite the Kremlin declaring a federal emergency and sending a host of different agencies to participate in the clean-up, just last week Mr Ryabinin and activists from Greenpeace Russia found another area where technical water used in industrial processes was being pumped directly into the tundra from a nearby tailing pond. Russia's investigative committee has promised to investigate.

"The ecological situation here is so bad," Mr Ryabinin says.

"The latest constructions such as the tailing pond at the Talnack ore-processing plant were built exclusively by Nornickel chief executive Vladimir Potanin's team and supposedly in accordance with ecological standards, but on satellite images you can see that all the lakes in the vicinity have unnatural colours and obviously something has got into them."

Mining company Nornickel would disagree. It has admitted flagrant violations at the tailing pond and suspended staff it deems responsible at both the Talnack plant and at Norilsk Heat and Power plant no 3 where the diesel spill originated from.

On Thursday it appointed Andrey Bougrov, from its senior management board, to the newly-created role of senior vice president for environmental protection. It has a clear environmental strategy, provides regular updates on the status of the spill, and its Twitter feed is filled with climate-related alerts.

But what investors read is very different to the picture on the ground.

Norilsk used to be a closed city - one of dozens across the Soviet Union shut off to protect industrial secrets. Foreigners need special permissions approved by the Federal Security Service (FSB) to enter the region. It would take an invitation from Nornickel to make that happen and, for the past month since the spill, that has not been forthcoming.

Unlike in Soviet times, Russian citizens are now free to come and go. That's why our Sky News Moscow team were able to fly in and travel around the city, even if getting to the spill site was blocked. What they were able to film provides a snapshot of the immense challenge Russia faces in upgrading its Soviet-era industrial infrastructure, particularly at a time when climate change is melting the permafrost on which much of it was built.

Just downwind from one of the rusting factories on the city outskirts is a huge expanse of dead land. The skeletal remains of trees stand forlorn against the howling Arctic winds. Sulphur dioxide poisoning has snuffed the life out of all that lived here. Norilsk is the world's worst emitter of sulphur dioxide by a substantial margin.

"For 80km south of here everything is dead," Mr Ryabinin says, "and for at least 10km in that direction too. Everything here depends on the wind."

Immediately after the spill, Mr Ryabinin filmed and took samples from the Daldykan river just a few kilometres from the fuel tank which had leaked. By that point the river was a churning mix of diesel and red sludge dredged up from the riverbed by the force of the leak. Norilsk's rivers have turned red before and the chemical residues have sunk to the bottom, killing all life there. Nothing has lived in those rivers for decades.

In his capacity as deputy head of the local environmental watchdog, Mr Ryabinin says he insisted that he be allowed to fly further north to check the levels of contamination in Lake Pyasino and beyond.

Nornickel at the time claimed the lake was untouched by the spill. Mr Ryabinin says his boss encouraged him to let things be.

"I can't be sure I would have found anything, but this sort of confrontation - making sure I didn't go there with a camera, let alone with bottles for taking samples, it was all very clear to me. It was the final straw."

Rosprirodnadzor refused to comment to Sky News on Mr Ryabinin's allegations or suggestions that the agency was working hand in hand with Nornickel.

Georgy Kavanosyan is an environmental blogger with a healthy 37,000 following on YouTube. Shortly after the spill, he set out for Lake Pyasino and to the Pyasina River beyond to see how far the diesel had spread.

"We set out at night so that the Norilsk Nickel security wouldn't detect us. I say at night, but they've got polar nights there now, north of the Arctic Circle. So it's still light but it's quieter and we managed to go past all the cordons."

He is one of the few to have provided evidence that the diesel has in fact travelled far beyond where the company admits. Not just the 1,200km (745m) length of Lake Pyasino but into the river beyond.

He says his measurements indicated a volume of hydrocarbons dissolved in the water of between two and three times normal levels. He thinks after he published his findings on YouTube, the authorities' vigilance increased.

Greenpeace Russia have spent the last two weeks trying to obtain samples from Lake Pyasino and the surrounding area. They have faced difficulties getting around and flying their samples out for independent analysis.

They are now waiting for results from a laboratory in St Petersburg but say the samples remain valid technically for just four days after collection and that they weren't able to make that deadline due to the authorities' actively obstructing their work.

Elena Sakirko from Greenpeace Russia specialises in oil spills and says this has happened to her before. This time, a police helicopter flew to the hunter's hut where they were staying and confiscated the fuel for the boat they were using. Then a deputy for the Moscow city parliament tasked with bringing the samples back from Norilsk was forced to go back empty-handed.

"We were told at the airport we needed permission from the security department of Nornickel," Ms Sakirko says. "We asked them to show us some law or statement to prove that this was legal or what the basis for this was, but they haven't showed us anything and we still don't understand it."

Nornickel announced this week that the critical stage of the diesel spill is over. The company is now finalising dates for a press tour for foreign media and for other international environmentalists.

Mr Ryabinin thinks this should have happened weeks ago.

"If we don't let scientists come to the Arctic region to evaluate the impact of the accident, then in the future if anything similar happens, we won't know what to do."

A spokesperson for Nornickel said the company "is actively cooperating with the scientific community and will meticulously assess both the causes and effects of the accident."

Nornickel considers permafrost thawing to be the primary cause of the accident, but is waiting for the end of investigation before making a final statement, the spokesperson said.

They added that the company "accepts full responsibility for the incidents on its sites these past two months and holds itself accountable for any infrastructural deficits or poor decisions by personnel.

"The imperative is to do everything to clean up our sites, instil a stronger culture of transparency and safety in our workforce, and ensure that such situations do not occur in the future."