Por Christian Edwards, CNN

El crucero de lujo afectado por un brote de hantavirus llegó al puerto neerlandés de Roterdam este lunes por la mañana, según mostraron los sitios de seguimiento marítimo, para ser desinfectado por las autoridades.

Los 25 miembros de la tripulación y los dos miembros del personal médico a bordo del MV Hondius, de bandera neerlandesa, serán puestos en cuarentena tras desembarcar de forma escalonada, según informó previamente el operador turístico Oceanwide Expeditions. Posteriormente, el barco será desinfectado.

Tras su atraque en Roterdam, se observaron trabajadores que vestían trajes de protección contra materiales peligrosos y mascarillas a bordo del barco. No estaba claro si todos los miembros restantes a bordo serían puestos en cuarentena durante el periodo completo recomendado de 42 días.

El atraque del barco en Roterdam marca el final de su largo viaje desde Sudamérica, durante el cual fallecieron tres pasajeros a consecuencia del brote de hantavirus, un virus que habitualmente se transmite por contacto con las heces de roedores.

El barco había quedado varado frente a Cabo Verde —su destino final previsto— después de que las autoridades impidieran a los pasajeros desembarcar en las islas africanas debido al brote de hantavirus. En su lugar, los pasajeros fueron evacuados la semana pasada, en las islas Canarias, España, permaneciendo a bordo una tripulación mínima para el trayecto final del barco hacia los Países Bajos.

La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha evaluado que el riesgo que este brote representa para el público en general sigue siendo bajo. Dado que el hantavirus tiene un periodo de incubación de varias semanas, la OMS advirtió que podrían surgir más casos en las próximas semanas.

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Happy Monday! We begin the morning with a mix of sun and marine clouds. Expect partial clearing this afternoon as winds will help mix out the clouds. Highs rise into the 60s and 70s for most beaches, 80s for the interior. A Wind Advisory in in place through the Ventura County Mountains through 3pm where gusts will near 40mph. Santa Ana winds will peak in the morning and keep humidity levels low. Beach Hazard Statement and High Surf Advisories remain in place through midday. Use caution when heading into the coastal waters.

Temperatures rise Tuesday. A few clouds will greet the beaches in the early morning before a quicker clearing trend. We get rid of most High Surf Advisories and Beach Hazard Statements, so head out into the beaches and get into the waters to stay cool! Maximum temperatures

Peak heating occurs Wednesday as most areas draw close to 80s. Head out to the beaches and enjoy! We watch temperatures fade back to average as the weekend approaches. Minimal day to day differences on board.

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By Silvia Marchetti

(CNN) — Not long after Charly Oliver and Michelle Denton met in the 1990s, they found they had the same dream — to live on a sailboat and explore the world.

It took many years for that goal to be realized, but the couple were finally able to sell their home in Boulder, Colorado, a decade ago and buy a sailboat named “Rascal.”

Since then, they’ve spent November through April each year sailing across the clear waters of the Bahamas, admiring striking sunsets and tropical shores from their 41-foot floating winter house.

The summer months are spent globetrotting — the couple have so far visited 36 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Freeing lifestyle

“What pretty much sums up the sailing lifestyle is the freedom and just working and living with nature,” says Denton, who couldn’t be happier to be living the life she first imagined when she learned to sail as a child.

Their lifestyle at sea didn’t come easily. Back when she was a law student, Denton had put together a 40-year plan that involved living frugally and saving as much as possible so that she could retire early.

When she and Oliver married in 2004, Denton laid out her plan to him and found he was willing to pursue it with her.

“For me, retirement has always been about traveling and doing the things I want to do like climbing, motorcycling, sailing,” he says. “Settling down in one place and not going anywhere is not in the cards for me.”

Life on land felt fast-moving and uninspiring at times, adds Denton, who explains that they’d traveled all around the US, visiting most of their bucket-list places, and the prospect of exploring new shores and hard-to-reach spots was hugely appealing to both of them.

After 33 years of saving they were finally able to retire in 2016, three years earlier than they’d initially projected.

That same year, they took their first sea trip, from Galveston Bay in Texas, where they bought the vessel, along the Gulf Coast to Florida and then from the Florida Keys to the Bahamas.

For the past 10 years, their winters have been spent exploring the more than 700 islands of the Bahamas, such as the Abacos, the Berry Islands )a 30-island chain), Conception Island, and Mayaguana, its most remote isle.

Challenging times

During the summer months, they usually leave the vessel behind to continue their travels on land.

While they say there are many pros to life at sea — such as the freedom, the affordability, and the boating community — there are also many cons.

“It’s not just sunsets and cocktails,” says Oliver, who previously worked in the industrial safety sector.

Maintaining a sailboat can be hard work and constantly being at the mercy of sea conditions requires a lot of preparation, forward planning and patience, they say. Anything that goes wrong with the boat, they have to fix themselves.

“You don’t go anywhere fast,” says Oliver. “Dealing with weather can be problematic both at sea and when anchored.”

The couple have had many challenging days at sea, including a bad-weather crossing of the Gulf Stream, an ocean current that flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States.

They live simply onboard. The kitchen contains only a small oven and all digital comms are via a limited satellite internet link. However, th

By Silvia Marchetti

(CNN) — Not long after Charly Oliver and Michelle Denton met in the 1990s, they found they had the same dream — to live on a sailboat and explore the world.

It took many years for that goal to be realized, but the couple were finally able to sell their home in Boulder, Colorado, a decade ago and buy a sailboat named “Rascal.”

Since then, they’ve spent November through April each year sailing across the clear waters of the Bahamas, admiring striking sunsets and tropical shores from their 41-foot floating winter house.

The summer months are spent globetrotting — the couple have so far visited 36 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Freeing lifestyle

“What pretty much sums up the sailing lifestyle is the freedom and just working and living with nature,” says Denton, who couldn’t be happier to be living the life she first imagined when she learned to sail as a child.

Their lifestyle at sea didn’t come easily. Back when she was a law student, Denton had put together a 40-year plan that involved living frugally and saving as much as possible so that she could retire early.

When she and Oliver married in 2004, Denton laid out her plan to him and found he was willing to pursue it with her.

“For me, retirement has always been about traveling and doing the things I want to do like climbing, motorcycling, sailing,” he says. “Settling down in one place and not going anywhere is not in the cards for me.”

Life on land felt fast-moving and uninspiring at times, adds Denton, who explains that they’d traveled all around the US, visiting most of their bucket-list places, and the prospect of exploring new shores and hard-to-reach spots was hugely appealing to both of them.

After 33 years of saving they were finally able to retire in 2016, three years earlier than they’d initially projected.

That same year, they took their first sea trip, from Galveston Bay in Texas, where they bought the vessel, along the Gulf Coast to Florida and then from the Florida Keys to the Bahamas.

For the past 10 years, their winters have been spent exploring the more than 700 islands of the Bahamas, such as the Abacos, the Berry Islands )a 30-island chain), Conception Island, and Mayaguana, its most remote isle.

Challenging times

During the summer months, they usually leave the vessel behind to continue their travels on land.

While they say there are many pros to life at sea — such as the freedom, the affordability, and the boating community — there are also many cons.

“It’s not just sunsets and cocktails,” says Oliver, who previously worked in the industrial safety sector.

Maintaining a sailboat can be hard work and constantly being at the mercy of sea conditions requires a lot of preparation, forward planning and patience, they say. Anything that goes wrong with the boat, they have to fix themselves.

“You don’t go anywhere fast,” says Oliver. “Dealing with weather can be problematic both at sea and when anchored.”

The couple have had many challenging days at sea, including a bad-weather crossing of the Gulf Stream, an ocean current that flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States.

They live simply onboard. The kitchen contains only a small oven and all digital comms are via a limited satellite internet link. However, th

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN

(CNN) — An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593 kilometers (56,913 miles), according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one quarter of the distance between Earth and the moon.

Astronomers at the Mount Lemmon Survey in Tucson, Arizona, discovered the asteroid on May 10 and named it 2026JH2. The object belongs to a class of asteroids called Apollo, which orbit the sun on trajectories that intersect with Earth’s own orbit around the sun.

At its closest pass, 2026JH2 will be about 24% of the average distance between Earth and the moon, and about two and a half times the distance at which hundreds of geosynchronous satellites orbit, providing services such as telecommunications and weather forecasts. The close pass is expected to occur on Monday just before 6 p.m. ET, according to NASA’s JPL Small-Body Database.

Despite the proximity, the space rock poses no danger, according to Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a tool for categorizing potential collisions of space objects with Earth.

“2026JH2 will pass safely by the Earth,” he said in an email. “This is actually a rather normal occurrence, car-sized objects pass between the Earth and the Moon every week. At the size of a school bus, these pass through our neighborhood several times per year. We are only recently developing surveys that are sensitive enough to see them,” he added, noting that before these surveys, objects of this kind would simply zoom by completely unnoticed.

Exact size unknown

The asteroid originates from the asteroid belt, an area between Mars and Jupiter, Binzel explained. “Occasional collisions in the asteroid belt, plus gravitational tugs by Jupiter, can send small asteroids into Earth’s vicinity. This fact has been known for many decades and many thousands of asteroids that can pass near the Earth are already known.”

Even though astronomers have directly observed the object hurtling toward Earth, its exact size is unknown. The uncertainty is due to the fact that when an optical telescope sees a new object, the only information it gathers is the object’s luminosity in visible light. There is no way to know how much light the object absorbs or reflects, according to Patrick Michel, an astrophysicist and director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France.

“Thus, at the same luminosity, an object can be bigger and darker, or smaller and more reflective,” he said in an email. “To know the size, we would need observations in the infrared, because the luminosity in the infrared is directly proportional to the size. But such observations are more difficult to do from the Earth and are not used to discover new objects.”

Based on assumptions about how much light is reflected, 2026JH2 is currently estimated to be between 15 and 30 meters (49 and 98 feet) in diameter. At the smaller end of that range, Michel said, it would be similar in size to a bolide, or fireball, that exploded in the atmosphere over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, shattering windows and injuring 1,000 people. At the highest end of the range, it would be closer in size to an object that exploded near the Podkamennaya Tung