My brother is a junior in college majoring in anthropology. This semester he is studying in the Semester at Sea program at University of Virginia. He started circumventing the world in January. Needless to say, I checked the position report when I heard the news about the tsunami. His ship was pulling out of Chennai, India at 8PM yesterday. Today, March 12th his ship was at 11 degrees 41 minutes North, latitude and 83 degrees 43 minutes East, longitude they are in the Bay of Bengal
Seven years ago, Chennai (Madras) looked like this after 6 to 8 tidal waves separated by 10 to 20 minutes struck the port city:
From my geoscience course, I understand the sea bed movement and I understand that being in the middle of the ocean in a large vessel is one of the safest places to be. I’m thankful for that....My brother is scheduled to pull into Singapore next as they make their way through Southeast Asia. They have a full course of study planned when they arrive in the ports of Kobe and Yokohama, Japan from April 4 through April 8. I am anxious to hear what he finds. They have a full round of service calls in every port so I hope they will find some way to help when they get to Tokyo. I will keep you posted.
Remy, that is so cool! He is sadly will see a "once in a lifetime" Japan in April...
ReplyDeleteThanks for including the map. It helped a lot.
Just curious, how do you guys keep in touch?
He has limited internet access on the ship so he can get in touch with us sometimes. He told us some of the kids on the ship have this thing called a satellite phone. I do not know if they work but we just talk to him through email. Keeping it simple haha
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