Hello and welcome, I hope you enjoy your visit.
   This site was conceived out of my admiration for the sea, which I don't get to visit nearly enough, and inspired by Sebastian Junger's excellent book,The Perfect Storm.
   Please feel free to email me any comments or suggestions you may have and don't forget to sign the guestbook.
   Here are a few interesting facts about the sea:
   The oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface and contain 97 percent of the Earth's water.
   Earth's longest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, it is four times longer than the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined.
   Mt. Everest stands 29,028 ft. high. Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano on the island of Hawaii, is actually taller. Only 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea stands above sea level, yet it is 33,465 feet tall if measured from the ocean floor to its summit.
   If the ocean's total salt content were dried, it would cover the continents to a depth of 5 feet.
   If mined, all the gold suspended in the world's seawater would give each person on Earth 9 pounds.
   The deepest hole in the ocean is the Marianas Trench, in the Pacific, which is 36,163 ft. deep.
   Undersea earthquakes and other disturbances cause tsunamis, or great waves. The largest recorded tsunami measured 210 feet above sea level when it reached Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula in 1737.
   At the deepest point in the ocean, the pressure is more than 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of one person trying to support 50 jumbo jets.