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10 Maritime Blogs- Plus 1 For Good Luck!

10 Maritime Blogs- Plus 1 For Good Luck!

Just so you know, I haven’t been purposely neglecting my blog and my faithful followers. ;-)

I’ve been hard at work on the DSV Mystic Viking and my access to the internet has been extremely limited.

After my experience on the tuna boats, I promised myself I would never take another job offshore where I didn’t have internet access. Even the IMO recently came out with the ‘news’that internet access…

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I love the Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers CIBBOWS  http://www.cibbows.org/

A great group: go and jump in the drink with them!

Her lips are blue because they swim all year: water t° now is 51°. Warming up! 

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USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11) Essex-class aircraft carrier Built: 1943 by Newport News Shpbuilding & Drydock Co., VA Length (original): 820 feet (250 m) waterline / 872 feet (266 m) overall Beam: 93 feet (28 m) waterline / 147 feet 6 inches (45 m) overall Draft: 28 feet 5 inches (8.66 m) light / 34 feet 2 inches (10.41 m) full load Complement: 2,600 officers and enlisted Aircraft carried: 90 – 100 aircraft

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I saw these two roller blading nuns in front of the aircraft carrier right after I finished sketching it. Thank you, Sisters!

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Diu, India; the old Portuguese fort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diu_Fort

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Bornholm, Denmark

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The Cosco Bremerhaven called out to another ship. In a crisp Irish accent, the captain of the Bremerhaven requested to meet the captain of the oncoming vessel at 1 whistle.

The response, in a warm, drawling, very VERY thick Brooklyn accent, came back: “Yeah, well, we’re just gonna pull over here in the channel and give you more room, and let you go by over here.” My heart warmed with his hospitality to the foreign captain.

A moment of silence, and then in the Irish accent: “I’m sorry, sir, could you repeat that?”