Description: Self, Community & Overall Wellness
My father was a Seafarer whose ships had sank twice in the Atlantic Ocean, largely due to lack of maintenance and this pattern continues through today with globalisation and illegal smugglings of migrants across the seas. If one talks with those who work with ships or submarines, they will tell you that it was a life of hardship, involving loneliness, and fear for one’s life not only due to bad weather conditions (think, The Prefect Storm ), but also due to pirates (indeed through modern times), or human er
James Cameron who directed the movie “ Titanic ” has reflected on his own ‘dive’ of over 25,000 feet comparing it to Mount Everest, and of course we know that this was one of the most successful movies to date. The media has thrust the story of a group of people who paid $250,000 each to be taken down for a “tour“ this supposed cursed wreckage. We awaited anxiously as if in our own movie ‘set’ to see what will happen? Now we question the design of the submarine , as it has imploded ! Yet, a recent wreckage
On an end note, I feel particularly close to the sea, and to the narratives. Having gone to Boston University and visiting “ The Castle ” a Tudor-revival style building that was left to the university by the family of a prominent businessman, Mr. William Lindsey, whose eldest daughter was married in the mansion, and she and her groom were killed aboard the Lusitania , a ship torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of County Cork in Ireland. Her grieving father built the Leslie Lindsey Memorial Chapel