Sailing

by going around the tip of Africa. After returning to Portugal with many spices and profits, da Gama became the first to find a direct sea route from Europe to Asia. Meanwhile, the Portuguese continued to look for the source of the spice trade by sailing eastward through the Indian Ocean. Malacca (Melaka), a small port on the Malayan Peninsula, was the center of the spice trade controlled by the Portuguese. It would remain the same for many…

Safety precautions were drawn, but the captain decided to keep sailing. At 1:40 p.m. on May 7, U20, a German submarine led by Kapitän-leutnant Schwiege, saw the Lusitania. At 2:10 p.m., Schwiege fired a torpedo at the Lusitania. Schwiege then recorded in his log, The ship stops immediately and heals over to starboard…

After a long time at war, we were finally trying to sail home to Ithaca, but Zeus did not agree and sent a storm towards us. Odysseus tried to keep us safe from the raging storm and docked us somewhere safe from the wind. I managed to stay quiet for about half of the first day we were docked, but I soon began to get anxious and hungry. “Odysseus, when do you think we can eat something?” I asked. Odysseus said he didn’t know, but hopefully it would be soon. I went to take a nap but I simply…

tiches of the east by sailing west. On October 12, 1492 Columbus landed on a very little Caribbean island about three hundred miles north of the eastern tip of Cuba. There he confornted natives called Tainos; this was a huge discovery, this event ignited a spark of exploration. In spite of finding a completely new continent he died believing he had found a new way to Asia, but actually he did not. Despite Columbus's lack of success in locating the asian mainland by sailing west, by initianting…

become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” Odysseus, a hero in the epic The Odyssey, becomes an example of this in his attempt to return to his home. While sailing, he decided to sail by a large creature and lose only a few men, compared to sailing by a whirlpool and possibly losing everyone and his ship. Odysseus also gets his crew to blind a large one-eyed monster and hide under his animals to free him and his crew. Odysseus was a strong leader…

was attacked the raid/battle lasted for days at a time. King Liam finally had enough thinking of Isabella being 6 by now. King Liam said to himself “ I don’t want my angel to grow up anymore on a battlefield.” So the day after he set his mind after sailing to the Kingdom of Nightfrost on the other side of the world to settle the world to make peace. The only problem was that Nightfrost people are born warriors and will not surrender easy so King Liam had to go to the heart and most dangerous…

confidence in business and made him put all focus on the sea. When it was possible for him to become a sailor, he left the land and started his life on the sea. As a sailor, he visited many countries, such as Spain, England, France and others. While sailing, he gained a lot of precious experience of drawing maps as…

was exactly what the sailors of the fourteenth and fifteenth century were thinking as they left for expeditions with naval leaders such as Columbus and Zheng He. Although Columbus and Zheng He set out working for expansion, the two had different sailing cultures and indigenous interactions which determined their success. The fourteen hundreds were a time of exploration. Voyages from all over the world were taking place and new discoveries were being found. During this time, the Age of…

Any Lagoon 400 Catamaran Review will inevitably focus on the comfort and luxuriousness of the sailing vessel. This focus is entirely warranted as the 400 was specifically designed for sailors looking for a home out on the water. It's not much of a vacation if the boat is too cramped or passengers are falling over each other, but at the same time, the 400 invites social activity and conversation, almost creating the illusion that the entire vessel is a floating family rec room. Accommodations:…

risking his life and others, he manages to complete his mission sailing home from Troy. There’s 4 different types of journeys that Odysseus experienced; physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. Physical journey is the challenges and obstacles a traveller can face. Odysseus faced the Cyclops, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and etc. Mental journey is when a traveller goes insane by something or time. After twenty years of sailing, Odysseus was going insane. Spiritual journey is a process of…