“And we sail and we sail and we never see land, just the rum in the bottle and a pipe in my hand…”
Action Underwater Studios was host to a World Record Underwater radio broadcast. Martin Day, Sue Harrison and the morning Crew from Essex FM Radio Station Broadcast their Breakfast show from the Action Underwater Studios. The British record stood at 1hr and 25 mins held by Nick Girdler EX BBC, and the world record was 3 hrs 30 mins held by German Radio Presenter Frank Niessen.
Link, via Spluch
You’ve probably seen this video before. What I didn’t know was that this song is available in so many different variations. There’s the backwards version, the karaoke version, versions in Icelandic, German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, an anime version, a slow version, a fast version, a World of Warcraft version, Taupins version, a Rogue Gallery version, and a Phoenix Wright version, plus many more once you get to YouTube.
Shamelessly lifted from the Presurfer
A new underwater memorial reef set to open off the coast of Florida is part of an emerging trend for offbeat burials, sending people to new frontiers after they die, from outer space down to the ocean floor.
The man-made reef—the world’s largest—will offer room for the remains of up to 125,000 individuals, said Jerry Norman, CEO of The Neptune Society, the group responsible for creating the revolutionary resting place.
“The Neptune Memorial Reef provides a natural setting for loved ones that is also a awe-inspiring destination where family can gather and enjoy,” Norman said.
Covering an area of 16 acres just more than 3 miles off the coast of Miami, the reef is a whimsical re-creation of a lost city, complete with columns, roads and city gates. Individuals who choose an interment there—The Neptune Society calls it a “placement”—are cremated and placed in various parts of the structure. A simple placement costs about $1,500, while a spot inside the body of a majestic bronze lion runs the price up by several thousand dollars.
Me, they can sew up in me hammock, with a 9-pound shot at me feet, and the last stitch through me nose.
>> Neptune Memorial Reef (flashy promotion)
>> BG Capital Group (the money)
>> Full story at LiveScience, via Fark
“ The Swinging Sailor of Perryman” is a jolly calypso tune by pirate trop-rock band Captain Quint, which I first heard (where else?) on Bilgemunky. The song tells the story of John Clark Monk, a skipper who when dying at sea requested his loyal crew to not let his feet touch dry land. His body was therefore suspended by chains in its tomb, and his burial chamber flooded with rum, or so the legend goes. His tomb is at Spesutia Church in Perryman, Maryland. As a native Marylander, I’m proud.
Detailed story from Weird Maryland by Matt Lake, Mark Moran
>> Captain Quint website, with audio clips
>> More than you want to know about who all is buried in the cemetary
Charles, skipper of Natsiq wites:
Voici qlq photos d’une petite rando avec bivouac sous la tente à bord du Norseboat que nous avons faite, fin sept. 2007
amarré au pied de la tour Constance (Aigues-Mortes) [moored at the foot of the tower Constance (Aigues)]
aux avirons, mat remisé sous les plat-bords pour passer sous les ponts [under oars, mast stored under floor-boards to pass under bridges]
petit-déjeuner, étang du Ponant (entre La Grande Motte et Le Grau-du-Roi) [breakfast, pond du Ponant (between La Grande Motte and the Grau-du-Roi)]
au mouillage, tôt le matin, sud de l’étang du Ponant [at anchor, early in the morning south of the pond du Ponant]
retour vent arrière sous foc seul, en famille, vers Port-Camargue [returning downwind under jib alone, as a family, to Port-Camargue]
Over at Proper Course, Tillerman has the floor open for nominations for Top Ten Sailing Blogs of 2007. I don’t imagine NSL will make the cut, there just isn’t enough sailing in either this blog or my life, for that matter. But click on over and join the discussion, you are sure to find something interesting.
I have to admit that I don’t get the animal/beach meme so popular on other blogs.
“Maine Mermaid” contributed by reader vectorges. Thanks!
The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian stone carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands. Famed director Alfred Hitchcock said that the most beautiful sunset in the world can be seen from precisely this spot on the Zadar quay. That was how he described it after his visit to Zadar, a visit he remembered throughout his life by the meeting of the sinking sun and the sea.
Watch and listen:
Link to OddMusic.com, via The Presurfer
This underwater restroom built into the side of an aquarium is located at a cafe in Akashi, Japan.
via The Presurfer
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