Category Archives: sea

Off To Rockaway – Full Speed Ahead

May 8, 2024 – 9:53 am

May 7 Seven months in New York Like a marooned sailor Like Richard Burton The Nile explorer On the beach in Trieste Ships sailing away on the Adriatic Burton going nowhere Like me. But Today I stand on A Wall Street Wharf Not a hint of winter on the river Spring 75 Sunny I am […]

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Down to the Sea RIP

December 17, 2023 – 8:22 pm

Last July my fellow Explorers Club members Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet along with Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, were lost, when the Titan, a five-man pressuried submersible imploded on a dive to the RMS Titanic at the bottom of he North Atlantic. On e the surface support ship lost contact, a […]

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Two Fingers of Blame

December 17, 2023 – 3:05 pm

Published April 16, 2012 Several years ago the legend of the Titanic gained two new insights with the disclosure from an ancestor of ocean liner’s second officer that the ship had been doomed by a steering error by the helmsman. The panicked mistake was overruled by the first officer according to his fellow officer too […]

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November 26, 1978 East Village – Journal Entry

November 27, 2023 – 10:47 am

I’m completely broke once more after two week’s without work. I suppose this depression about money will be my guiding light for the futre, but I can’t worry about the trivialities about which I can’t do anything. Somehow I have to find a job. THE HUDSON DOCKS NOVEMBER 1978 November night Derelict docks stretch along […]

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The Neponsit Homes Eternal

October 6, 2023 – 10:46 am

The Neposit Homes overlooked Riis Park Beach. Originally constructed as TB wards and later serving as mental wards and finally converted to a home for local seniors. I recalled sunning naked beneath those windows in 1978 with Sharon Mitchell after a long night into the dawn. The old ladies shouting kind words to us in […]

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