I recently came across the draft of the story on a back-up and thought Id put them on a post on this blog (a previous version, spell checked and edited, was published in Solaris Hill Magazine). The scene opens at the Schooner Wharf Bar...
Several years of my youth were misspent (allegedly) on the working waterfront of Key West Florida, an island surrounded by reefs that had menaced shipping for the last 500 years. Over the years I managed to work my way into the Shipwreck Salvage and Tugboat community, and the following is a story I wrote about my voyage from scruffy young deck hand and diver to Tug Boat Captain during that time.
I recently came across the draft of the story on a back-up and thought Id put them on a post on this blog (a previous version, spell checked and edited, was published in Solaris Hill Magazine). The scene opens at the Schooner Wharf Bar...
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Are you one of those people asking me why I call myself a sailor, and write so little about spending time at sea? Having recently updated my logbooks for the year, I am forced to report that I logged over 100 days under way in 2013, either offshore or near. So where are the florid posts springing from the salt in my veins, written during these many contemplative days for from land? While my logbooks are a testimony to my sea-time, the entries I'm reading are pretty much a collection of facts, coordinates, and navigational notes with little romantic insight into the reason I was at sea. Most of that sea-time was spent as captain of one of Aqua Survey’s small research vessel like the RV Stan Waterman, but there is also the 50-odd days on the Caspian Sea, (and peculiar and hard to categorize time driving an inflatable around an Andean Lake). The reason that I don't write about many of these projects is usually that they are just run of the mill marine survey that might be hard to find an entertaining story in, and that contain at least some level of expectation of confidentiality, or at least discretion. So I don’t photograph them, and I don't post about them. That being said, here is a random, ambiguous, nonspecific photo of my life down by the sea in boats. Click Here to Watch "Chile: Laboratorio Natural. Energía solar, algas y robótica." on Youtube
Awesome journalist Katie Worth, ( also known as the girl who loves science so much that she lived on Mars TIme for 7 weeks ) came to visit us at the PLL Base Camp, and was able to distill the important things out of this multi-disciplinary project for an article she just published in Scientific American Magazine. I believe I'll follow this new blog by Nat Geo writer Katie Worth As she attempts to pedal her way north from the very south of South America.
Here's a link to Katie Worth's blog. |
My Name is Eric and My Job is Scientific Exploration.
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