The first news report of the star ferry seafaring vessel was reported in 1888.  Since that time the ferry has endured many a hardship with typhoons and wars.  Today it is the main mode of transportation between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.   Each vessel can carry up to 200 passengers...

we haven't done much fishing so far this season.  we've been plagued by consistently bad weather, the worst weather anyone can remember out here.  it began with the typhoon on the second day of december that destroyed many people's homes and essentially stranded thousands more with road...

Yordy Martinez and six other people left Cuba one summer night on a poorly constructed raft.  Even mild seas flipped their vessel with regularity.  Within 48 hours they lost their provisions and one soul.  Several days later another older woman succumbed to exposure and dehydration....

I’ve been completely out of digital reach, seemingly at the end of one part of the earth, for almost two months. I knew what I was getting into, and I thought it would be a spiritually rewarding bit of escapism, a comfortably temporary disconnect from the tele-techno-communication frenzy of...

A young former lawyer from Israel came around the Totem this week, looking for some work, or a bunk on a ship to Kodiak, or both. He says he’s done with the law game, he’s got a new plan. His father always wanted to be a fisherman, live the life, but a marriage and two kids put the kibosh on...

I’ve got work on a tender vessel named the Totem, an eighty foot steel scow straight outta Waterworld. We’re fixing the pluming, wiring, generators, hydraulics, everything. I have trouble eating lunch because my hands are a bloody, greasy mess. It’s a good thing my boss, Paul, doesn’t mind...

Strandbryggan is an awesome little cafe right on the water that is located at the corner on Strandvagen and Djurgardsvagen right next to the bridge that goes to Skansen. Although it's a little pricey (everything is in Stockholm), I would highly recommend this place because the food is excellent and it's...