PITCH2011 Regatta - Kelly O'Neill Cup

PITCH2011 Regatta 
Medevac to Bellingham, I'm waiting for news from the ICU as a friend from the islands is critical condition.  Meanwhile...I always wanted to be Kelly O'Neal.  I like dogs, photography and boats...so in the spirit of Kelly I got out there on the dinghy with the dog just like she did...but for my custom duct-taped telephoto mount and did one for the 'ol bucket list - life is short.

Apocalypse Bow-Wow

Cute Overload: "As the pilot steered us upriver, I reviewed Colonel Kats’ file. The Army had sent their finest dogs to chase him, but nothing had come back but rumors — whispers of a cult deep in the jungle, where dogs and mice alike worshipped Kats like a god."

Roman ship had on-board fish tank

Roman ship had on-board fish tank : Nature News: "A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. Italian researchers now suggest that the pipe was part of an ingenious pumping system, designed to feed on-board fish tanks with a continuous supply of oxygenated water. Their analysis has been published"

We do transfer farmed salmon from the pens to the processor with large oxygenated tanks in the Puget Sound.  The fish are still alive when they reach the plant this way!

New York Harbor

New York Harbor

'We don't know who he is, but we can know' | Crime | Tacoma News

BARNACLE BILL: "Twenty nine years later, a local oceanographer hopes to solve a maritime mystery spanning three states and thousands of miles of the Pacific."

A Swedish American in Swedish

Swedish Sailing and Insanity: "The sea was boiling. I never understood what that meant until this weekend. All of those literary descriptions meant nothing to me. Boiling? I thought it was just windy and wave-y. I was wrong. The rain was so powerful that the water falling from the skies was pushing the waves back down from the depths from which they originated. It was bubbling, but there were no whitecaps. The rain was too strong. Every description of a boiling sea that I have ever read suddenly made sense to me. In case you were wondering, boiling is an apt description. Just trust me."

Right whales return to New Zealand after 100 years

"More than a hundred years after it was hunted to local extinction, the playful, frolicking right whale is finally finding its way back to its ancestral calving grounds in New Zealand.
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It's believed that once more than 30,000 right whales spent each winter in New Zealand's protected bays giving birth and raising their young."

Princess Cruise Bridgecams

Any view from a Princess Cruise ship is a good view, right?

What's in a name?

Titanic Sinking | Titanic 2: "A boat named “Titanic 2” has lived up to its name by sinking on its maiden voyage in an English harbor, but there were no icebergs in sight."

The World's First Amphibious Ice Cream Van

Going Where no ice cream truck has gone before.