Recently I found some video and sort of threw together a couple of bits. I promise that everyday wasnt like this one... the rest of the time it was al science and exploration under the sea.
hope you like it.
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On a recent job i was subjected to spending several months on a tropical island in the Caribbean. The Horror! And it wasnt the tropical island that I live on most of the time, which is Key West
Recently I found some video and sort of threw together a couple of bits. I promise that everyday wasnt like this one... the rest of the time it was al science and exploration under the sea. hope you like it.
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Robotics and undersea exploration are great aspects of my current gig here in Key West, but some times I need a break to get back to nature and the simple things in life, like sailing the little dinghy that my father built for me years ago. I hope you enjoy this video of Sailing a small boat in the Florida Keys.
For a long time I've been trying to figure out what this blog is about. What's my theme? What take-away message would would I like to share? Until recently its been a mash-up. Like after a melon-cart collision in an Egyptian street market, there were seeds strewn all over the place. But during my recent weeks at sea, while looking for ancient shipwrecks in the shadow of the space program, something jelled. All my liquid-y catch phrases and effervescent talking points reduced an off-gassed down to one single sentence au jus. Here is my gravy Statement: Exploration isn't Out There...(points to world outside the window of comfortable place) "Its in Here. (points to head where brain is) You can go to the wildest parts of the planet, but if your eyes aren't open, if you aren't sniffing at the air and listening acutely with equal parts curiosity, amazement, and fear, then you could easily miss out on the discovery that lays right in front of you. And at the same time you could be right at home, surrounded by your community and peers who are stepping over another discovery and not seeing it because of complacency, and with your explorers mind switched on..., you know...Bingo! Its not out there,...its in here (points to your head) Whenever I'm in New York I love to stop by the Explorers Club for the Wednesday Mixers; You never know who you'll run into.
The historic club was recently covered in an article in Business Insider, crowing"Here's A Peek Inside The Super-Elite Club That Counts Elon Musk, James Cameron, And Buzz Aldrin As Members" Click the link below to check it out. There are some great photos too! Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-explorers-club-new-york-2014-7?op=1#ixzz3BhWp1oAN Last Wednesday I stopped by the Explorers Club in NYC to watch a sneak-preview of a film on a subject I thought I knew everything about, and boy was I wrong.
Years ago, when I first started working with Susan Hendrickson, she told me about the incredible story that happened AFTER she found what was to become the worlds most famous T-Rex. I could barely believe it was true. And through the years that we worked together diving on shipwrecks and sunken cities, she would update the team on the ongoing series of events that seemed like something from a Hollywood Movie. But the story was real, and so amazing that now the story behind the Discovery has been made into a feature length Documentary film that is wowing film festival audiences from London to Melbourne. With clips and commentary from Dan Rather, Katie Couric, grainy news footage and stunning new cinematography, this new film brings all the pieces together. After the Premiere I spoke to Peter Larson, Sue's Colleague and founder of the Black Hills Institute, and principal role in the film. Next time I drive across the US, I'll make a point taking a northern route to see the home base of this intrepid team of Paleontologists. Opening at select theaters on August 15th, 2014, This is an important film about Scientific Exploration and the battle of some passionate paleontologists against a foe more frightening than the T-Rex, because it is alive and roams the earth today. Click Here for a list of theaters Showing Dinosaur 13. Where "Exploration" = Science x CreativityWe have already established that I'm a little obsessed with understanding the reasons why people get up off the couch and go out into the world and explore. Over time I have have come across several pretty good explanations., but might recently have had an epiphany on the subject. Read on.
The other day I was listening to Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, and Sir Ken Robinson, a leading educationer*, talking about science, creativity, education, one of them while handling a wiggly human brain**. Suddenly I realized that either one of the two halves of our brain, with their very specific and different purposes... and personalities. might be very unpleasant if left totally in charge. As I depart for San Juan, I ponder the fate of the Taino, who made bold voyages far out of sight of land to discover and colonized the Islands of the Eastern Caribbean. How far was their first ocean voyage, and from where on the mainland did they originally depart? Over the next few weeks I'll be investigating the maritime history of these early voyages of exploration, but right now I'm still wondering; What traces of this sea faring society still exist in modern Puerto Rico, and how will I find them?
I recently got turned on to Artist,Writer and Speaker Austin Kleon as a source of inspiration ( thanks, Artist Sally Binard). While he is inspiring, and gets a lot done, I found myself contradictoraly responding with jealousy instead of action that he gets invited to speak at Google and TedX ,and I don't. Maybe its because he is a powerful visual communicator, and I'm not. Check out his site. And he did inspire me enough that I wrote him an email asking for a list of all of his tricks so that I could do a better job at Sharing My Excitement for Scientific Exploration. Here's what it said.... 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... 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.
That means I'm lucky enough to join expeditions to excavate sunken cities, climb volcanoes, find missing bombs, and Sail old research vessels, while searching for the mysteries of the natural world. Categories
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