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 […]
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Its beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.. Island
Christmas Island – Kiribati by Charlie Triggs – Deckhand aboard Sea Dragon. After three hours sleep since my 00:00 till 04:00 watch, I came up the companion way into an overcast and breezy morning. At 002.03.9N, 157.37.7W Christmas Island had appeared on the horizon as a long line of coconut […]
Read MoreResearch expedition conducted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. By Alice Alpert
This article was previously published at MIT. PART II On one side of the island, the slope underwater is very steep. Coral cascades down the slope in scalloped shelves and small fish take shelter in the crevices below. Brightly colored corals and fish make a rainbow surrounding us. Small anthea […]
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