OAR Northwest[We get a LOT of questions about the day-to-day life aboard the ‘James Robert Hanssen’ – or JRH for short – while at sea. The #1 question has to do with what we’re doing with buckets (very fair, VERY important). The #2 question is “How the heck do you stay clean out there?!?” Adam weighs […]
I saw land for the first time in 10 days last night, or at least I think I did in the form of a few lights to our north. It’s interesting to be rowing right through the middle of these islands and yet have no sight of land, even in the middle of the day the […]
The more time I spend on the water, the less I feel I am working for or acting on behalf of the Ocean. Instead I am recognizing the interconnectivity that lies between me, you, us and the Ocean. We are working with the Ocean to find a mutually beneficial future. We pursue the truth of […]
[Jordan sent this in yesterday, his own opportunity to tell the story of the dolphin stampede instead of my game of telephone to you.] I thought that six years ago on the North Atlantic it would be my first and last time to see one. They came in the morning – playful bodies, light brown […]
A six inch white and silver sliver rockets out of the water. A bird? No, not with those incandescent wings…insect like. It glides over the rollicking waves, unperturbed at the irregularity of the watery medium it has escaped. The flying fish is my new favorite creature. I have known about them for as long as I […]