Freelance Photographer
Daniel Forster is a freelance photographer who specializes in marine and sailing photography. As a freelancer, he is self-employed and often supplements his marine photography with work as an architecture,…
Read MoreMarine Traffic Controller
Susan McDonald is a Marine Traffic Controller with the Army Corps of Engineers, stationed along the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts. She works to ensure the safety of ships and…
Read More50th Anniversary National History Day
Welcome to the 2023–24 school year! This year, the National History Day competition is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and now is your chance to get involved. Vikings in Arkansas? In…
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By Richard J. King Last June, the sailing school vessel Robert C. Seamans got underway from Honolulu, bound for Fiji in the South Pacific. The ship’s crew comprised college students,…
Read MoreAuthor – Illustrator (and part-time college professor)
When Rich King was growing up outside Philadelphia, he thought he might become a political cartoonist. He always loved to draw cartoons and write, and he has both artists and…
Read MoreMaldives Tuna and Cowry Snails
By Richard King The earliest known written record of Maldives tuna is from the 1340s, left by the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta, who spent four years in the Maldives…
Read MoreDusky Dolphins
by Richard J. King The French sailor Bernard Moitessier is perhaps best known for sailing alone a full one-and-a-half times around the world, nonstop, in the Golden Globe Race of…
Read MoreMarine Geochemist
Renee Takesue is a marine geochemist for the Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center of the US Geological Survey (USGS). “Geochemistry is a field that combines chemistry and geology. The…
Read MoreNoddy
By Richard J. King When on his outbound passage aboard HMS Beagle, 22-year-old Charles Darwin failed to see the beauty, intelligence, and the usefulness to humans of the seabirds he…
Read MoreAHOY Students! Follow The Voyage—Share the Experience
AHOY Students! Follow The Voyage—Share the Experience Since 2008, we’ve been printing profiles of maritime professionals in Sea History to show you all the kinds of careers out there that…
Read MoreFor I Knew a Ship from Stem to Stern
For I Knew a Ship from Stem to Stern Frederick Douglass Abolitionist, orator, and statesman, Frederick Douglass had been born into slavery. By the time he was a young…
Read MoreGreen Turtle
By Richard King A sea turtle was once caught by a fisherman, caught his own lucky break, but then had the miserable misfortune to be captured a second time by…
Read MoreTo Sail the Seven Seas
Most people use the terms sea and ocean interchangeably. Someone going on an offshore voyage might say they are “going to sea” or sailing on the “high seas,” but in…
Read MoreShark Biologist
Lots of people go fishing in the summer in the waters surrounding Cape Cod, usually for striped bass, bluefish, black sea bass, and the occasional tuna. Greg Skomal does his…
Read MoreEveryday Speech from Sailors of Yesterday
Seafarers speak in a language all their own. They don’t look left and right, but rather port and starboard. Ships’ cooks don’t work in kitchens, they cook in galleys. Boats…
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