The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge is billed as the world’s toughest row, 3,000 miles across the Atlantic from San Sebastian in La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain to Nelson’s Dockyard, English Harbour, Antigua & Barbuda. This year an all-female Antiguan team made history by becoming the first all-women team to represent the island and as the first Black team to row across an ocean.
The Island Girls team; Elvira Bell, Christal Clashing, Kevinia Francis, and Samara Emmanuel; departed La Gomera on December 12 and arrived in English Harbour 47 days, eight hours and 25 minutes later, on January 28th. They placed 13th out of 28 teams competing. As of this morning, six boats are still at sea bound for Antigua.
Even though it was expected, it still comes as a shock. Yesterday, the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) Harbors Division filed a 
Did you, by any chance, lose a USB memory stick while kayaking sometime before November 2017, near Oreti Beach in Invercargill, a city on the southern tip of New Zealand’s southern island? If you did, the memory stick has been found and it is still functioning. There are some nice photos and 
Recently, the media has somewhat breathlessly reported that the usually slow drift of the magnetic north pole has sped up dramatically. My favorite headline is from NPR which reads, “
For the first time in 150 years, baby giant tortoises have been born on the Galapagos island of Pinzón. Biologists reported that they had observed 
We are a few days late in wishing the iconic cartoon character,
We recently posted an incomplete list of some of the great things that the US Coast Guard was doing while not getting paid during the government shutdown. One of the missions was the resupply of the US McMurdo Station in Antartica by the US heavy icebreaker 
More bad news for the 
For the “blue water” Navy veterans suffering from the effects of Agent Orange from their service in Vietnam, a federal appeals court in Washington has done what the politicians have refused to do. 
Last April, we 
After 221 days alone at sea, 73-year-old French sailor, 
The El Dorado, a 157 foot-long, 300-ton, casino boat broke free from her moorings when 
No doubt about it. Winter is with us with a vengeance. On Friday rising waters and ice jams on the Hudson River between Albany and Troy, New York tore 
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s voyage to Australia, 
Excentric Australian billionaire Clive Palmer made quite a splash in 2012 when he announced his plans to build 
There is a tragic irony in the collision of the guided-missile cruiser