Many sailors have been lost at sea and some live to tell the tale. I…
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Tianjin go BOOM!
Tianjin is the fourth largest city in China with about 14 million folks. It is…
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Fishing…sort of
There is no such thing as a fish. Really, there is no common agreement as…
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Swimmers
How far can you swim? Most mammals can swim, even though some really don’t like to.…
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We came to conquer…
Wait, where is everybody? I can think of only one country in the entire world…
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The Andrea Doria
On July 25th, 1956 the cruise ship SS Andrea Doria was just a few hours…
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Deep, far, tiny and bouncy
Because the ocean is so vast and available for free it is often called upon…
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Moby Dick
Like Ahab, I’m going after this very BIG fish. And yes, Melville thought whales were…
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Hawaii Goes to the Movies
This is article number 100 of Pacific Voyages. Yeah, balloon drop! After two years of…
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Kiribati
$1642.16 per capita a year. Maybe it’s the name. It’s pronounced keerybass. You might have…
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The Forbidden Island
There are seven occupied islands of the 136-ish in the Hawaiian archipelago. First, what, 136?!?…
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The Antikythera Mechanism
Not in the Pacific and not a voyage. But it is my favorite story from…
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Sailing Alone Around The World
On June 27th, 1898 Joshua Slocum became the first person to sail around the world…
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Shanghaiing
Even though California was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1850, slavery…
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New World Homo
Homo (Latin for Man) is the genus descended from the now extinct genus Australopithecus about two…
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Paddle To The Sea
Guns, alligators, thirst, starvation, mosquitoes and drowning. Other than that how was your vacation? On the…
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Catalina
It isn’t 26 miles across the sea. It’s 20 miles. The subject of Catalina naturally takes…
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Two Years Before The Mast
If your child ain’t all he should be now’…just punch him around a bit! …
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Kozo’s Revenge
On February 23, 1942 a 365 foot long Japanese submarine surfaced a hundred yards off the…
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Knockoffs
Pacific Voyages is about strange and wonderful things of the Pacific. So I thought we’d revisit…
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