The Larboard Watch

Collecting flotsam and jetsam.

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deep sea diver with an umbrella, 1949

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Jumping Orca Menno Schaefer, 500px.com

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"The sea hates a coward."

--Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953)

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Hey, is that a penguin on your pumpkin? We created five great sea creature stencils to use this Halloween, including a penguin, seahorse, sea turtle and hammerhead shark. Print one and give it a try!

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Photo from the deck of the ocean liner SS Vestris as it is sinking off Hampton Roads with a loss of 112 people, November 11, 1928.

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The Charles W. Morgan is back at Mystic Seaport! I went to visit her yesterday. It was a bit chilly and rainy, and she looked mournful under cloudy skies. Belowdecks was empty and quiet.

I think she wants to sail again.

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Wreck. by SergiyGlushchenko

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(via Laser-Guided Sea-Monkeys Show That Tiny Animals Can Move Mountains of Seawater)

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A slender mola washed up at the research station that I worked at this summer. These fish are gorgeous and are a pelagic fish that rarely come up into our temperate waters. This is another sure sign of an El Niño year here in California

They grow to about a meter which is nothing compared to some of the other members of the molidae family. 

This big guy is a Mola mola, also known as an ocean sunfish and they grow to weights over 1000kg! 

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Sunset in Costa Rica with my Oru Kayak - www.orukayak.com It folds up into a backpack!

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Want one.

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Aqualized

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The Leftvent - Linophryne lucifer

Leftvents are deep-sea anglerfish, who have the symbiotic bacteria and obligate parasitic males common to many of the other anglerfish.

The genus name Linophryne is Greek, and means “toad that fishes with a net”, and lucifer means, well, "Lucifer". It’s a devil-toad-fish with a net. The whole genus is sometimes called “netdevils”. They’re uncommon enough thatbasically the entire genus is known by that common name.

Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London. 1886.

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Dunlin (DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst, NJ)

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Léa Brassy surfing Lofoten Islands, Norway

Source: Korduroy

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Mexican Navy tall ship Cuauhtémoc arriving in Seattle on August 28, 2014. Photos by Alan Berner, Seattle Times.

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Observing the fish. #fishing #archipelago #summer #sweden #swedeninstagram (at Munkholmen)