Atlantic Ocean

Safe passage to Cambodia would be guaranteed -- no one could touch them. The Fabachers could pretty much tell Stevie and the feds, investors, plus everyone else to go jump off a bridge and that was exactly what they intended to do. But everything depended on the rendezvous point. Getting to that spot would be harder than they thought -- three of the four people on the yacht wanted the other three dead. THE THIEVES HAD nearly a hundred million dollars, as well as merchandise scattered all…

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were pronounced legally dead on January 5, 1939, after the two most expensive air and sea searches in American history. The first search for Amelia Earhart started on July 2, 1937, and was led by the U.S Navy and Coast Guard (“Happened”). George Putnam, Amelia Earhart's husband of six years, led a second search of the Phoenix and Gilbert islands which was also unsuccessful (Lovell 290). At the time of Amelia’s disappearance, she was one of the world's most famous…

The Observational Octopus We’ve all heard some variation of a story in which an octopus has escaped its enclosure, gone about its business, and returned to its tank, all without leaving any evidence for the staff or guards. These types of tells are what piqued my interest in cephalopod intelligence and led me to a study conducted by James B. Wood and Roland C. Anderson where the goal was to identify the differences in escape behavior between various types of octopuses. When searching for an…

Her first flying lesson was on January 3, 1921.(The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis) She was the first women to get a pilot’s license from the National Aeronautic Association. She became the first women to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger. She then flew across the Atlantic solo…

was a career counselor for women interested in aviation careers. Amelia was the first, and one of the only woman to ever be awarded the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. On June 17th- 18th 1928 Amelia became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger, and was the first woman to make a solo round-trip flight across the United States. Amelia constantly broke records for speed, and would be the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California, Los Angeles,…

It was completely breath taking. We saw all of the other resorts down the beach as far as our eyes could see. The beach was so dense with people and the clear blue sky matching with the clear blue ocean was exhilarating. The sand was perfectly white and all of the palm trees in the distance provided a perfect layout of vegetation. After the driver gave us a few minutes to view the island in a circle he took us for a run down the beach. He started…

Sewol: Tragedy at Sea On the morning of April 16th, 2014, the Sewol a South Korea Ferry took off from Incheon traveling to Jeju island. On board, over 476 people 325 of whom were students from a school in the capital city of Seoul. As the ship would begin to sink the captain would fail to give on order to evacuate. The captain and several crew members would instead disembark the ship saving themselves as hundreds of people were left to die. Many factors would contribute to the loss of life…

The article Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit appeared in the January 1965 Readers Digest pages 136 through 140 condensed from The Rotarian. This interesting article about the mysterious treasure hunt carried out in the island of Oak since 1795 was written by David MacDonald. Oak Island is a 57-hectare island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Oak Island is noted as the location of the so-called Money Pit and the site of over 200 years of treasure hunting.…

affects other Caribbean islands, don’t necessarily affect Cuba because they still have old school vehicles from the 1950’s that don’t burn much gas. Also, Cubans aren’t legally allowed to sail on the ocean and fish. However, they can fish for the bay. Because of this, it has created a vibrant ocean life not seen anywhere else. Cuba can’t legally trade (U.S. negotiations are in process now) with other countries so unnaturally processed foods are not flowing into the island poisoning its citizens.…

category 5 hurricane (24 hours), and the faster sustainable winds (200 mph). Hurricane Patricia starting forming in the Pacific, but didn’t hit anybody’s radar until it started to form a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tehuantepec which is in the Pacific Ocean west of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The storm then quickly went from a tropical storm to a Category Five Hurricane. The increase in the temperature of the water due to the El Nino allowed for Hurricane Patricia to intensify this quickly.…