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(21 February 10) A message in a bottle that I cast from a ship has washed ashore on Orchid Island off Taiwan and apparently it has made big news on the little island.
"It is a BIG wonderful, happy news for everyone in the island. Your letter brings Orchid Island good luck and a talk for the next few years - I am sure!!!"

(29 October 08) Pacific ocean and US West Coast graphical (and text) marine weather products. If you would like a page dedicated to your location please email me.

(11 October 08) Gray skies last for days.

No birds, no whales, lifelessness.

Every day the same

(26 September 08) I never imagined that I'd be on a merchant ship that would just stop in the ocean and have the crew go swimming in the ocean! It was awesome.

(22 January 08) For several years I have been earning my keep by plying the worlds oceans. On each ocean passage of each ship I have sailed on I have made a point to cast a message in a bottle into the sea, then I wonder: "Who will find this note?", "What language will they speak?"

(15 September 07) We are now steaming south in the Sea of Japan. Yesterday at noon we took one engine off line and reduced the load on the other so we are moving at the glacial pace of 9kts (10mph) to allow typhoon Nari to get ahead of us before we make our turn around the southern end of the Korean peninsula. For two weeks we rolled along across the gray north Pacific...

(08 August 07) As autumn nears the vast North Pacific turns gray, sunny days and star filled nights are rare. After seeing nothing but this ocean for ten days it is easy to forget that anything else exists, so when a bird appears 1000 miles from the nearest land it is a fast reminder of the outside world.
Albatross are amazing masters of flight. They fly effortlessly for weeks at a time and stay at sea for months.

(05 August 07) We have been steaming along on one engine for the past week and a half on our way to Nawiliwili (Kaua'i) to make a timed arrival at our birth. We steamed as slow as we could given that the evaporators need a minimum amount of waste heat from the engines to make water, but still we are two days early to port. To kill time and because anchoring is nearly impossible since the sea floor is as steep as the sides of the mountainous islands we are drifting south of Kaua'i and west of Ni'ihao.