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Reposted with permission from Waggoner Nov 30, 2024. Original article . There have been significant, noteworthy firsts in science thanks to the crew of s/v One Ocean and the Around the Americas Expedition. Thanks to their on-board meteorological station, microSWIFT buoy drops, polar observations

Migration is a natural, beautiful process. It occurs continuously, among people and animals alike, driven by survival, access to food and resources, and the search for safer, more favorable living conditions. Migration occurs across land, sea, and sky and is a common thread between thousands of

One Ocean is currently 340 nautical miles off the coast of Chile. We left Callao on Wednesday evening and—somehow—it’s already Sunday. We’ve been averaging 120 nautical miles a day heading south. Conditions have been kind, and once we cleared 150 miles offshore, it felt as though we were completely

The Humboldt Current is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north from the southern tip of South America along the continent’s western edge toward the equator. It is part of the South Pacific Gyre—the largest of Earth’s five major rotating subtropical ocean current systems. This

-c1300 hrs, 276nm west of Peru-Chile border A Point in Time Off watch, sometime between napping and sleeping an unfamiliar alarm went off. A few moments wasted to make sure it wasn’t just in my head, and then more alarms. Something important was happening, urgency required. Nap done, now I’m very

This morning I've muttered (mostly to myself) a dozen times that it's time to leave Peru and head south. I woke up wanting to be on the move rather than tied to a buoy a hundred yards or so from the Yacht Club Peruano. Part of my impatience to get going is purely from looking at the time and

The lights of Lima remain off our port beam as we glide south toward Chile through soft, calm water. The night sky is speckled with southern constellations, and the moisture in the air makes everything feel damp. It’s 12:30 a.m., and I’ve just started my midnight to four watch. I couldn’t sleep

10/21/25 Today I woke up to “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley blasting from the restaurant across the street from where One Ocean had docked just yesterday afternoon. Well shit, I thought— isn’t that the perfect theme song for today. It was the first morning in many where I slept soundly, without the

I woke this morning to calm waters—the quietest and flattest I have seen in a long while on this expedition. The early morning sun burned through a layer of fog, not thick, just enough to bead dew across the deck and leave a damp chill in the air. It was my early morning watch aboard One Ocean as we

S/V One Ocean Anatomy of a knockdown North Atlantic Passage Halifax/Lockport to Bermuda 0930 hrs, October 17, 2025 37d31m N/66d44m W Seas 15 - 30' Barometer 1002 falling Wind 25 - 35kts Main triple reef, mizzen down, jib 1/4 Apparent wind angle 160 - 180d Boat speed 5.5 - 8+ (all good, seas/swell

It was the night of our equator ceremony when I thought, for certain, we were being taken over by pirates. My heart leaped into my throat as I remembered Mark’s words… never ever let anyone board this vessel. When a boat rapidly approached One Ocean at night—men yelling and pointing a green laser

When we made the decision to turn right and transit the Panama Canal, we based it on three factors: finances, weather, and time. The weather was against us and we were storm-weary. We weren’t going to make Uruguay for Christmas, and our funds were nearly gone. So we turned toward the Canal to keep