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Expedition Report for the Week of 3.25.13

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CWF Africa to the Americas

Day 61: The dirty blog

[Greg here in Mission Control – I dug up this early blog that got posted but never went live for some reason. A good look at life on a tiny ocean rowboat reveals the reality of 4 men in a small space. Avert your reading eyes if you don’t believe in the existence of bodily […]

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CWF Africa to the Americas

Day 60: More dead fish

A few blogs ago I talked about seeing some dead, floating fish on the ocean surface. Since then we’ve seen about five more. All of them seem to be the same fish, and we finally got close enough to take a picture. They look like they have been bleached by the sun and, save for […]

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CWF Africa to the Americas

Day 59: Contingency plans

This blog’s been in the hopper for a while, but if you are just joining us, the long and the short is that we are rowing Dakar to Miami and have about a 1/3 left to go (~1,300 nautical miles). Earlier in the trip we broke two of our six oars, and our power went […]

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Daily Education Update 4.8 Skin

Daily Update 4.8 Week 8: Module 4: Date 3/22/13 What is your largest organ? It’s extremely flexible and comes in many different colors. That’s right, it’s your skin. The average adult has over eight pounds (3.6 kilos) of skin and it covers 2 square meters (22 square ft). Our skin has three layers. The epidermis, […]