Box Jellyfish: 24 Eyes, No Brain, a Wedding Dance, and the Vinegar Debate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Box jellyfish, the Cubozoa, were moved out of the true jellyfish in 1973 because they are active...
28 Sep 20min
Walking the Plank: A Mutineers' Loophole, Slave Ships, and 1820s Pirates
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The bound captive stepping off a board over the sea is the classic pirate image, yet it virtuall...
28 Sep 18min
Catamarans: The 1876 Amaryllis Win That Got Twin Hulls Banned for a Century
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A catamaran is simply two parallel hulls of equal size, and that wide stance gives it form stabi...
28 Sep 25min
Thor Heyerdahl's Errors: Ra Reed Boats, a Burned Tigris, the Odin Hunt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer, zoologist, and ethnographer who lived from 1914 to 200...
28 Sep 21min
Waterlines Explained: Plimsoll Marks, Hull Speed, and Waterline 50 on a Jet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A 1960 US Air Force airframe maintenance manual sends mechanics to Waterline 50 to repair a supe...
28 Sep 18min
Stockton Rush and the Titan: Expired Carbon Fiber and Ignored Warnings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stockton Rush co founded OceanGate in 2009 with shallow wreck dives off California and in the Gu...
28 Sep 26min
Sailor Superstitions: Bananas, Whistling Bans, Finnish Wind Knots, and Cats
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Commercial fishing is still the second most dangerous job in the US, and sailor superstitions gr...
28 Sep 21min
Sea Shanties Were Work Tools: Mobile Bay Cotton Screwers and the Dead Horse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The viral sea shanty craze got the history wrong: most of the songs, including The Wellerman, ar...
28 Sep 23min
