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Britist Explorer Dave Cornthwaite Meets the Sea Dragon
Dave Cornthwaite Meets the Sea Dragon
Read MoreBoat Lift- “all available boats”
We make our difference on the water, working from “boats” like so many before us. However, there are times and people that really stand out. After 9/11 boats of all types and people one cloth made a difference with the largest sea evacuation in history – over 500,000 people in […]
Read MoreThe Boys are closing on Cabo
The team is sailing fast to Cabo… Yesterday we were sailing from Guadalupe to Baja. We saw lots of common dolphin’s jumping all over the place. There were at least 100. We also saw a tropic bird which has a really long tail. I helped sail the boat. I had […]
Read MoreYoung men at sea
Sea Dragon is underway after her long refit. She and crew are heading south to Cabo San Lucas as a staging area for the Hawaii crossing. They have sailed via Guadalupe Island, home to an abundance of Great White sharks that use the area as a social aggregation point (and […]
Read MoreBig Sharks
Ben and Luke reporting in again from Guadalupe: I was driving the boat toward Guadalupe island. About noon yesterday we spotted land. We said land ho and I rang the bell. The island was really big and when we were driving along the island dolphins came up and swam with […]
Read MoreOpen House at the Institute
Amidst all the rush, push and craziness of our final refit stages, Sea Dragon and her crew took two full days for a public open house. We chose the Dana Point Ocean Institute, about halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles CA. On top of all this we even squeezed […]
Read MoreImportant video on Japan Tsunami Debris
Sea Dragon, Pangaea and our Partners at Algalita and 5Gyres are now in active preparation for an important 2012 expedition to the center of the predicted Tsunami Debris field. Sailing from Majuro to Tokyo and then back to Hawaii, the teams will conduct important research on this evolving crisis- watch […]
Read MoreLooking to 2012
I write this New Years Eve note sitting in Miami, the working home of Pangaea Explorations. We have an important year behind us and one of great promise before us. This is as it should be; pleased with what we have done, excited about what lay ahead. 2011 was a […]
Read MoreEmily at the RGS
Emily Penn, our Program Director, just received an important and well deserved honor. She was inducted to the prestigious Royal Geographic Society due to her extensive work in marine conservation. We are proud of the recognition and more so that Emily has become such an important part of Pangaea Exploration. […]
Read MoreTop of the Mast to Finish in the Bilges
Dateline – Ensenada – Baja California – Mexico – November So here we are in the Baja Naval yard in Ensenada,Mexico. We’ve been working hard the last couple of months.Outbound Yacht Services installing new Furuno instruments,Air-con(lovely),freezer as well as sorting out lots of electrical bugs.Old crew Jordy Orwig and Jeffrey […]
Read MoreBig Fish out of Water
Sea Dragon is now deep into her heavy maintenance and overhaul cycle. Dale has just moved the boat down to Baja Naval…a well know yard in Ensenada Mexico. Here we start seeing some of the most fundamental… and really cool refit work. After almost 35,000 miles of heavy sailing and […]
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