> The 62-year-old Wauna resident Erden Eruç (AIR-den AIR-rooch), already the holder of 16 Guinness world records, was on his way to doing just that when he launched his rowboat from Crescent City, California, June 22, 2021. After 239 days and over 7,800 miles alone across the Pacific for the second time, he became the first person to row from North America to Asia when he landed in the Philippines March 24, 2022, securing two more world records.
Wow! There is reflecting from both him and his wife on the preparation and mental effect this has on both of them.
I have a co-worker like this.
- Most land animals do fly. Most insects fly, and most land animals are insects.
- Almost all (90%+) of animals live in the top 200 meters of the ocean. That's not that much different than the portion of the "air" that includes things that live in trees.
In both cases, it's a pretty thin layer of the total volume that contains almost all of the animals. It is more distributed in water, but not as much as your comment implied.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/marine-mammal-prote...
> This past summer, I was in Alaska in a little coastal town called Seward - a gorgeous spot on the Kenai Peninsula tucked between the ocean and some giant glacier-covered mountains. I met a guy named Dan Olsen, who records killer whale calls using an underwater hydrophone.
[1] https://www.kuow.org/stories/eavesdropping-on-orcas-love-gri...
Also, it’s very difficult to keep secret a project that involves more than 10 people, especially if it involves building things.
But not impossible, and there are a lot of examples of things being built (or destroyed for that matter) in perfect secrecy involving groups larger than 10 people.
People retire or fall out, documents get lost, someone slips somewhere. It does not take much for the existence of a project to become public knowledge. It’s the other side of the OPSEC coin: a single mistake and some information gets available.
Still, I am not saying this is impossible, merely improbable. Which, combined with the other factors, makes the story being a secret military project implausible.
Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terrible and lossy as sound in water?
