This week we had several great examples of the value…perhaps even necessity of different thinking. We don’t just mean different ideas, but a completely different set of skills, and perspective.. and different approach to the same problem. First Portia and I were fortunate enough to sit down with the world’s […]

Through the course of my research I have discovered that many countries around the world including France, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Somalia, Germany, Belgium, Bhutan, India, Sweden, Malta and Japan, plus many more have banned free plastic bags, some have imposed an outright ban […]

Helping a friend launch his boat today I found myself afloat once again surrounded by plastic evidence. A plastic bottle pieces of tape and plastic particulate. Remembering that unless someone does something that bottle could be there for up to an estimated 1,000 years I plucked it out of the […]

Today is the day that I start in earnest to Ban the Bag in my own home town of Lymington, from here other awareness projects and campaigns will sprout. In Lymington we are very much in touch with nature, with the sea, marshes and beaches to the south and a […]

  We know the glamorous, intense, emotional parts of expedition work. We are at sea, heading out over the horizon with a big rolling swell and steady breeze off the port quarter. Science team is working hard, hauling in nets, readying dive gear, small boats over the side, crew calls […]

The part we remember about exploration stories is the sudden glory of discovery- typically beyond what the determined travelers even imagined. Howard Carter finding the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 is a great example. Today the Sea Dragon crew filed a brief note on the Sat Phone more typical of […]

See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil. Elton, Tommy, Stephen. Three scared little monkeys sitting in their swimming shorts waiting to be redeemed of their sins. Capt. Bushy reads the deed; Neptune appears; the sins are revealed (what happens on the boat stays on the boat), This morning […]

Magical Mystical Moments… 0127 hrs Dale, Steve and Tom on watch; we amble around in the half asleep doze/alert night-watch mode; 12-15 knots of North East Trades just hanging in there, 5 Degrees North of the equator, wind dropping ,fluking around, it’s time to pull in the staysail, roll away […]