Monthly Archives: December 2023

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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Taking A Friend Home

December 17, 2023 – 7:46 am

On the night of April 15, 1912 the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage across the North Atlantic. < Three hours later the unsinkable White Star ocean liner disappeared from sight beneath the sea. Only 20% of the passenger and crew survived the disaster. According to the Bowdoin online magazine one of […]

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The Near Wintah Sun

December 14, 2023 – 1:32 pm

The almost winter sun Falls on the 9th floor balcony Overlooking Bleecker Street. The air is cold Not winter cold End of autumn cold. 93 million miles away Warm on my skin And Unlike Prairie dogs Asleep in their burrows I shall see through winter Awake Alive.

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December 4, 1978 – East Village – Journal

December 14, 2023 – 11:11 am

4:10am I lie on the living room floor. My ribs hurt less that way. Vincent Price was killing zombies on the TV and the NY Sunday Times is scattered besides me. I’m reading the back pages of the travel section, wishing I had enough money to buy a round-the-world ticket. $1100. I only have $78 […]

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