Jeff Larson has seen just about everything wash up on the shores of Santa Cruz: bottles, toys, shotgun shells, busted surfboards and fishing floats that looked like they had bobbed across the Pacific. When surging water driven by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan tore apart his city’s harbor, he […]
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From our captain on the Sea Dragon…
Our position at 20:00 GMT today is 26 47 N, 150 21.4. Our heading is 310 Mag, and winds are less than 10 knots from the South. It has been light fot the past few days so we have been sailing slow or motoring with sails up at times to […]
Read More“There’s an Masked Booby sitting on top of it,” Cynthia says
25.13N, 153.56E May 14th The New Reef “Net ball!” Hank yelled. It turns out to be a 500lb ball of netting, rope and line from over 80 sources, all different, and fragments of commercial products, including 3 toothbushes, 1 cigarette lighter and two plastic straws. The bulk of these, and […]
Read MoreFISH ON! Wahoo! No Plastic in Her Stomach
“Fish on!” Hank yells. I can hear it through the small window that divides my bunk, where I was sleeping, to the back deck, where Hank, Tyler and Shanlee are gathered to reel in our first catch of the trip. “It’s a tuna…no…a Wahoo,” Shanlee says with excitement. She’s recently […]
Read MoreBritist Explorer Dave Cornthwaite Meets the Sea Dragon
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbEer50aVFc&w=560&h=315] Dave Cornthwaite Meets the Sea Dragon
Read MorePodesta Island
Nearly a thousand miles offshore in this south-east corner of the Pacific lies Podesta island. Uniquely from other Chilean islands in this area it does not have a corresponding detailed chart, nor does the cruising or anchorage guide reference it. However, it lies on our path towards Easter Island and […]
Read MorePioneers
Awaiting the yacht Sea Dragon in Walvis Bay, Namibia on the Skeleton Coast surrounded by thousands of Flamingos, hundreds of Pelicans and many Dolphins reminds me of growing-up. When everything was new and exciting, still to be learnt and discovered. Then, with the passage of time the complacency creeps […]
Read MoreDo NOT “run to failure”
We have a saying on the boat, particularly amongst the staff at Pangaea and 5 Gyres that “the sea is not your friend.” That reminds us an important fact about the boat, mission and our work at sea. While we do important work, we have fun, and we are […]
Read MoreT-7…Here We Go Again
I don’t know if this is how it was for Magellan, Columbus, Lewis and Clark, Shackelton, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin…or even Indiana Jones…but I have seen this movie before. What we remember about really exceptional expeditions is, well…, the “exceptional part”. Great team, discovery and insight beyond all hope, […]
Read MoreWhere next?
When we think about the future, particularly in environmental work, we so often feel the “walls” closing in on us- limiting our choices and presenting ever darker scenarios that are increasingly hard to get excited about. While it absolutely true that we face monumental challenges ahead- more so than any […]
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