Sargasso Sea: A Shoreless Sea, Eel Spawning Grounds, and a Garbage Patch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Sargasso Sea has no coastline. It sits inside the North Atlantic gyre, bounded by the Gulf S...
28 Sep 21min
James Cook: From Staithes Shop Boy to Fatal Return to Kealakekua Bay
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Cook was born in Yorkshire in 1728 to a farming family and at 16 became a shop boy in the ...
28 Sep 23min
H.L. Hunley: Two Fatal Test Dives, the Housatonic, and Blast Trauma
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the night of February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley became the first combat submarine to sink an ...
28 Sep 23min
MV Doña Paz: A Rebuilt Fire Wreck, the Tanker Vector, and 4,385 Dead
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The deadliest peacetime maritime disaster was not the Titanic but the collision of the Philippin...
28 Sep 20min
Cutty Sark: Jury-Rigged Rudder, a Mutiny, and the 2007 Vacuum Cleaner Fire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1869 Scottish shipowner John "Jock" Willis commissioned the Cutty Sark at Dumbarton to beat h...
28 Sep 22min
Ever Given: The Suez Canal Grounding, a 100-Day Impound, and a New Bow
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The ship the world called Evergreen is actually the Ever Given; Evergreen is the Taiwanese opera...
28 Sep 22min
Davy Jones's Locker: Saucer-Eyed Sea Fiend, Duppy Roots, and a Pub Cellar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Davy Jones's Locker first appears in print in a 1726 voyage narrative attributed to Daniel Defoe...
28 Sep 24min
Exxon Valdez After the Spill: Seven Names, a Targeted Ban, and Alang Scrap
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Exxon Valdez was built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego, ordered in A...
28 Sep 21min
