Thoughts on an Endless Ocean

May 28th @ 4:15pm - I'm writing this sitting on the upper foredeck, in the bright sunshine, as the ship pitches up and down and side to side in the gentle, but nonetheless immense ocean swells that roll on beneath the ship. Our oceans are HUGE (an oft-cited, but poor excuse for willfully abusing them), and in looking out from my nearly 270 degree viewpoint near the front of the ship, you really get a sense of just how HUGE. No matter in which direction I look to the limits of the horizon, I cannot see land. And we're still only a day out, hovering over the relatively narrow continental shelf and slope... we have yet to venture out to the abyssal plain...

Blog post by Scott Doehler
Marine Educator