‘A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving’- Lao Tzu Words & Photos below by Nibbles – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. Sunrise onboard in Echo Bay en route from Seattle to Vancouver. There’s a saying somewhere, “It’s not about the destination, but the […]
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the albatross can be both an omen of good or bad luck, as well as a metaphor for a burden to be carried as penance. by Jessica MacIntosh – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. It’s hard to believe that Sea Dragon is only less than a week away from […]
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Hello from the North Pacific Gyre! (well, sort of!) by Jessica MacIntosh – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. Sea Dragon has been slogging its way northeast from Hawaii towards the north pacific gyre, and we are finally arriving at the southern edge. Its been almost a week at sea with […]
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Goodbye old main sail, hellooo NEW mainsail!. by Jessica MacIntosh – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. Sea Dragon has just been outfitted with a brand new main sail! – a day we have been looking forward to for a long time! Jake and Jackson from North Sails were here this […]
Read MoreThis morning we made first contact with the Jaseur Seamount. With a day of quit weather behind us, and an advancing front that promised higher winds we crossed into the Jaseur bank shallow in the early morning hours. Our immediate target was the “reported” pinnacle of 33′ (10m). These reported […]
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So long and thanks for all the fish. by Charlie Triggs – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. For Shannon and I three months as deckhands on Sea Dragon are drawing to a close. We have sailed from Mexico to Hawaii, then onward to Kiribati, completed a circuit of the Phoenix Islands […]
Read MoreBack to Kanton, Briefly Written by Katherine Joyce | Graphic Designer, Communications. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 29 May 2018 Yesterday we had a whirlwind encore tour of Kanton in which we picked up our instruments, took a few water samples, deployed two temperature loggers, and I […]
Read MoreLast stop: Rawaki Written by Nathaniel Mollica | PhD student, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 25 May 2018 The last island on our tour de PIPA is Rawaki. We arrived at dawn, greeted by thousands of birds. Rawaki is different from the […]
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Research expedition to PIPA is complete. by Charlie Triggs – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. Sea Dragon has just completed her Phoenix Islands research expedition with a team from the Cohen Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). WHOI is one of the leading research bodies in the scientific field of […]
Read MoreAdventures in Nikumaroro Written by Michael Fox | PhD student Scripps Institute of Oceanography Post-doctoral Scholar-to-be Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 18 May 2018 Yesterday we arrived at Nikumaroro, perhaps the most famous of the Phoenix islands, as it is the supposed final […]
Read MoreCurrent at Kanton Written by Nathaniel Mollica | PhD student, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 08 May 2018 It’s our first day at Kanton, and the work started bright and early. Yesterday we anchored just inside Kanton’s 11 kilometer-wide (6 mile) lagoon […]
Read MoreClosing in on Kanton Written by Michael Fox | PhD student Scripps Institute of Oceanography Post-doctoral Scholar-to-be Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 08 May 2018 There was something different about the ocean this morning. On the first watch we noticed more birds than […]
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