OceanDoctor

A Message to Eastern Airlines, 35 Years Late

Remember Eastern Airlines? I do. And I'm forever grateful to the long-gone carrier for transporting me to a ...

Cuba Loses its Mother Ocean

Cuba has lost its Mother Ocean. Dr. María Elena Ibarra Martín, director of the University of Havana's Center for Marine Research (Centro ...

50 Years, 50 States, 50 Stitches

I don't feel my age, I certainly don't act my age, and I'm delighted when people tell me ...

50 States - Leg 4, Stop 2: St. Louis, Missouri - Snow Day with a Difference

I hadn't seen it snowing sideways with such intensity since I rode out the "Storm of the Century" in Cape May, New ...

50 States - Leg 4, Stop 1: Rapid City, South Dakota - Beach House in the Sky

Woven deeply into every speech I have ever given about exploring the oceans is a reverant tribute to Lewis and ...

50 States - Leg 3: Macksville, Kansas (The Middle of Somewhere)

I hadn't been to Kansas in 25 years, since my then-girlfriend's '72 Dodge Dart broke down at 2 AM square in the ...

50 States - Leg 2: Florida - Oceans vs. Rocky Horror

Leg 2 was going far too smoothly. My flight to Tampa was early. The rental car bus arrived ...

50 States - Leg 1: California - The Giant Squid Problem

I suppose it was an appropriate start for an expedition about the oceans: Wet. A cold January morning rain pounded the Washington, DC sidewalks as I dashed, carry-on in tow, to catch a ride to the airport. Fortunately, a taxi driver quickly took pity on the umbrella-less, rapidly saturating figure ...

Wishing You a Year of Unscripted Happiness and Discovery

Sometimes planning is overrated. Sometimes thinking is overrated. Sometimes the best things happen when you just act. That's what happened on my 50th birthday. Though it's a concept I had thought about before, what's become the "50 Years - 50 States - 50 Speeches Expedition" was an idea that literally ...

Free Speech(es): 50 Years, 50 States, 50 Speeches

Fresh from the Eisenhower Administration era, your friendly neighborhood Ocean Doctor turned 50 today. In doing so, I outlived my father, William L. Guggenheim, who tragically died at 49 when he was lost at sea. It was my days as a boy, fishing with my dad off of Cape May, ...