19/07/2016 Newsround


19/07/2016

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Good morning, everyone.

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Leah here with today's Newsround.

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Coming up:

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The explorer taking on his biggest challenge yet.

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And the snails slugging it out at the world championships.

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First, a warship that sunk nearly 500 years ago off the coast

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of Portsmouth is being shown off to the public for the first time.

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The Mary Rose sunk in 1545 and, for hundreds of years,

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she lay at the bottom of the sea.

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But today after millions of pounds and years of hard work,

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people will finally get to see the historic Mary Rose

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like never before.

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There is the wreck of the Mary Rose.

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She has come to the surface.

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The Mary Rose.

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Back in 1982, this Tudor ship was brought back to the surface

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after sinking hundreds of years ago.

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She was a warship during the reign of Henry VIII.

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But no-one's sure why or how the ship sunk

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all those years ago.

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Was it human error, strong winds or gunfire from another ship?

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For more than 30 years, experts have been busy restoring

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the ship to her natural state and it's been a massive job.

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Every inch of the Mary Rose has been sprayed with a special solution

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to preserve it and the ship has been kept

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in a giant glass hot box to dry it out.

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The BBC's Duncan Kennedy was given exclusive access to the ship.

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This is never been seen before, neither on television or online.

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This is the side of the ship that was buried most deeply

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in the mud of the Solent.

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All the white you see is the polyethylene glycol,

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the wax-like chemical that they've been spraying it with

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for the past 19 years.

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Scaffolding has been used to keep it in place

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and giant pipes of air conditioning manage the temperature

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inside this special room.

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From now on, the public will not only be able to get the history

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and the sense of tragedy of this whole ship,

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but they can get up close, breathe it, almost touch it,

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in the way that Henry VIII would have himself.

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From now on, this really is the final story

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of this magnificent Tudor timepiece.

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It's the only 16th-century warship on display in the world,

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and it will remain here at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.

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Now to one of Britain's greatest adventurers -

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

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He's attempting a new record-breaking challenge

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for charity.

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Ayshah went to meet him to find out what he's up to.

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes is one of Britain's greatest

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modern-day explorers.

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He's spent most of his life taking part in epic expeditions

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and death-defying challenges.

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He's even conquered Mount Everest - the world's tallest mountain.

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But there's still one quest left for the 72-year-old to complete.

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The challenge is to cross Antarctica,

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which is bigger than China, to cross the Arctic Ocean,

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which is floating ice for 2,000 miles over the North Pole,

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and to climb the tallest mountain on every continent in the world,

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and there are seven continents.

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Sir Ranulph has already reached the North and South Poles

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and climbed the highest mountains on three continents so far.

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In the next year, he'll attempt to reach the peak

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of four more mountains to complete his record attempt.

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Mount Carstensz in Australasia, Mount Vinson in Antarctica,

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Mount Aconcagua in South America,

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and finally the dangerous Mount Denali in North America.

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What we want to do is to raise the money by doing it.

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The money will go to training nurses in the Marie Curie organisation.

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So charity, science and breaking world records before the Norwegians

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are three are the reasons why we keep going.

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But even after achieving so much,

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there's one person that Sir Ranulph can't seem to impress.

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My ten-year-old daughter is very, very interested in becoming a vet.

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That's what she wants.

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But she's not at all interested

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in a daddy who goes away, finding things in funny places.

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Well, Newsround is very interested and we'll be keeping a close eye

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on Sir Ranulph to see if he can finish his incredible challenge.

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And, finally, more than 200 snails slugged it out

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at the snail world championships in Norfolk,

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where the likes of Uslime Bolt and Turbo Speed took part.

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This year's winner though was a snail called Herbie,

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who was brought from a garden in Cambridgeshire.

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His prize was a silver cup filled with lettuce.

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That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.

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