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I'm not even sure how long it's been since I've submitted anything, but as I'm just now returning from a very long trip I must at least toss up some of the new kind of art form I'm playing with. During the past year on my ship we did a lot of deep sea water sampling, so I started painting styrofoam wig heads and sending to the bottom to be shrunk by the pressure you might find at depths of over two miles. To my surprise they came out really cool and can't wait to do more!

I just now noticed my last journal entry was over a year ago, so I'm guessing it's about time for a catch up! Well, lets see how to start, I departed Charleston, SC in December sailed south and trough the Panama Canal and into the Pacific to do some buoy work. We stopped in Valparaiso, Chile and went south where we traveled the Fjords of Patagonia to the Magellan Straits and out into the Atlantic, I will add we were lucky to have missed the earth quake in Chile by a couple weeks.  Now our trip starts to get fun, after leaving the straits of Magellan and having a nice two days of flat calm seas, just as we passed under the Falkland Islands t

Christmas was yesterday and I'm on the 110 west line just south of the Equator. The work is hard, all day in the hot sun pulling bouy's out and putting brand new ones down so the weather folks back home can figure ifin we will have a good or bad hurricane season next year or not. Anyway Set em up and knock em down is what we say, those of us who climb aboard the TAO Buoys of the Pacific Ocean  get to hold the time honored title of Bouy Riders From Hell, believe me it is a small club compared to most! It kind of goes like this; you get in a small rubber boat that gets dropped over the side into the sea where you proceed to your target the said