ON A WAVE LENGTH FAR FROM HOME.......
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SIMPLY PUT THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF THE MOST INTENSELY BRUTAL FILMS EVER. WELL ACTED AND TAUT DIRECTION . I CAN SAY THAT IF THIS ONE DOESNT MAKE YOU CRINGE YOUVE PROBABLY ALREADY HIDDEN A BODY IN THE BACKYARD. A MEXICAN DRUG GANG KILLS PEOPLE IN RITUALISTIC FASHION . THE REASON ? THEY BELIEVE THAT THESE BRUTAL AND SADISTIC ACTS MAKE THEM INVISIBLE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT . A MUST SEE FOR TORTURE PORN ENTHUSIASTS . RELENTLESS .........
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Takes way, way to long to get here......Like a month and a half..........talk about your "Slow Boat From China"  Well this is where that cam from.
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Oddly enough since I have always lived on the Northern plains and have only been to the ocean a few times, I loved this book. Finnegan does a marvelous job of explaining and describing the intricacies of both waves and surfing. Many times it felt as if the reader was riding along on the board behind him - seeing those huge waves barreling across the coast.
Occasionally I would have liked to have had a glossary of surfer terminology, but for the most part it was possible to glean meaning from the context. Finnegan is only a couple years younger than I am, so attitudes and jargon from the 60s and 70s were familiar.
Finnegan began his surfing life as a boy on the California coast, but his passion for finding the next good wave took him all over the world - Fiji; Australia; Hawaii; Long Island, NY; and Madeira, Protugal, to name a few. Thus, he introduces his reader to places and cultures wherever there are great waves.
His style is easy going and highly readable, likely due to his long... Read more
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The only thing smaller than the waves pictured in this book are the  pictures of these miniature waves.  The cover describes this as a guide to  "Monster waves", yet where are they?  In all the years this area  was alledgedly  surfed, surely there must be at least one picture of a  "monster" wave.  Nothing here appears larger than typical  afternoon wind-chop in the three foot range. I feel sorry for these  landlocked wannabees.
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These are really nice!  Use them around the house and when we are boating.  They transmit pretty far when we are on the water.  Cannot comment on how far they can transmit in town.  A solid purchase.
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Wendy Hinman's "Sea Trials" offers an unabashed look at what it takes to bring a young family on a multi-year around-the-world adventure on a shoestring budget.  The Wilcox family is not your typical yacht-cruising millionaire set.  They are an ordinary middle-class family who scrimped and saved years for the best boat they could afford and set off in fact without any prior sea-faring experience outside the calm of San Francisco bay.  The story starts off in the middle, a chaotic, life-threatening, nighttime shipwreck on a reef as a flashback and then proceeds linearly from there forwards.  The amazing story of how they rebuild and move on after that is just one of a dozen high-stakes adventures in this book.

Of course, no five-year travel book is going to be a page-turner from start to finish. Inevitably, the doldrums set in: a predictable rhythm of equipment failures, improvised repair, dealing with immigration, shopping, exploring the locale, and then back to sea, over and over and over.  There is in fact a litany of repetitive complaints mostly about the problems of trying to put children through correspondence school, the unreliability of international mail, money problems, dealing with crooked officials with their hand out, and so on.  Interspersed with this are a few snippets of local history for the various ports of call.  You get the impression that sailing is a lot like air traffic control, hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.  The last few chapters are truly hair-raising as one-by-one systems fail on the last 1500 miles: engine, rigging, and even food.

My main criticism of the book is that it doesn't maintain a point-of-view.  It is always bouncing between the four family members thoughts and feelings which I felt hampered continuity.  The overall effect is a narrative more like a reality TV show than a novel.  I would have preferred to have an entire chapter from one person's point-of-view so I could really get a feel for them as a person.  Garth, the teenage son and wife of this book's author would have been an ideal protagonist if the entire book had been portrayed from his POV.  That being said, it does help that we get to experience waves of panic, despair, and even depression that sweeps through the parents lives like swells in a rough sea.

Sea Trails is a unique story of a family who doubles-down on adventure, refusing to quit even in the face of insurmountable problems that will stretch them to the limit physically and psychically.. Reading this book will renew your belief in the spirit of America's pioneering families and a can-do attitude that makes us who we are.
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Not nearly as long as the picture would have you believe. They must be showing two strings in the picture.
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Think The Perfect Storm. Think The Poseidon Adventure. Are such behemoths merely myths? Are they the stuff of fantastic sea stories? Tall tales? Or do they exist? In Susan Casey's new book, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, the author compiles evidence that such monsters -- gigantic waves capable of crushing nine hundred foot vessels and sending them to the bottom in a matter of minutes -- do exist. Her evidence is overwhelming, and it comes with a sobering caveat -- with climate change comes rising oceans, warmer currents, larger and more persistent storms. All are a prescription for even bigger, more fearsome waves.

A secondary theme, but one that brings with it equally humbling concerns for our hubris-ridden culture is that these leviathans of the oceans are not really all that rogue or exceptional. While at sea, amassing their energy, ships may roll over these swells, but when they approach the continental shelf and/or smack into opposing currents and winds, they rise up to as much as three or four times the currently predictable heights as appear in our computer models. Modern shipping will bear the brunt of this mayhem so long as we continue to underestimate Mother Nature. And as ships go down at rates that may be comparable to the statistics of centuries past, we will all bear the consequences in the price of commodities. Not only that, imagine what a one hundred and fifty foot wall of water could do to any number of our coastal communities.

But as scientists shake their heads over the increasing dire data, there is one small community that is of obviously mixed emotions about the forthcoming environmental debacle -- surfers. Once daunted by twenty-foot crests, this gang of (mostly) male daredevils now think nothing of venturing into sixty plus giants. Some are ready to take off on waves of one hundred feet or more, and they long for the day they can be properly equipped to take on something in the one-fifty range. The old big wave spots like Waimea Bay, Sunset, the Pipeline, are child's play for this tiny brotherhood.

Are they crazy? Do they long for suicide-by-wave? Susan Casey parts the curtain somewhat revealing the personalities behind their mystique. Focusing primarily on Laird Hamilton, the premier big wave rider, a seemingly invincible competitor when it comes to riding monsters such as Jaws in Hawaii, Teahupoo in Tahiti and other similar breaks (some a hundred miles or more off the nearest shore) that exceed sixty feet, Hamilton becomes, in this book, the poster child for the big wave riding persona. Leaving aside his impressive physique and remarkable water skills, he possesses a canny instinct for the waves' personalities, a scientist's knowledge of their physics and a devil-may-care willingness to put his life on the line for the love of the rush that come when one plummets down the face of a giant wave that can blow the hatch covers off of freighters or break bulk carriers in half. Casey shows us the battled scarred; the walking wounded both physically and emotionally, but Hamilton, it seems, possesses a mystical amulet that pulls him through the tightest of spots.

If you are a surfer, sailor, water-sports person, then you will love reading this book, as will environmentalists and those seeking evidence supporting global warming. The book tends to make some points over and over again. Perhaps that is necessary for some readers, but I have a gut feeling that the audience for The Wave will more likely than not be the choir. On the other hand, it could give the cruising tourist industry fits and leave their clientele with sleepless nights. I doubt that many of the latter will be spending their afternoons deck side in a lounge chair, mixed drink in hand, engrossed in its pages. For those seeking vicarious adventure, it's a great addition to a library that probably includes books like Into Thin Air. Go for it dudes and dudettes!
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This is not an easy game to play.  But it is wonderful.  The sound of the waves is great.  Hidden shells and objects are not easy to see the further you get into the game.  But that is what makes it challenging.  You will love the fast pace.  Hard to stop playing, it hooks you into it.
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Is a child at your house learning to swim and finding it quite a challenge?  He is sure to be fascinated by the story of a lost turtle far from home.  Born on a Mexican beach she strays to Cape Cod.  With a lot of tender help---the sort of help we all need---she is rescued and relaunched.  Will she overcome every obstacle and swimming for years make it back to lay her eggs where she  herself was born?  Who is on the beach to greet her?
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The idea of weather wars intrigues me. Looking into the future while considering the hurricane sitting off the coast, it seems almost a real possibility.
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The sound is nice when it is within 20 feet.  once you venture out beyond that the static starts to build.
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A good idea for turning the rising tide climate change tune on its head.  I used to sail and live on a sailboat...always wished I could afford a boat like the kiss.  Some very cool tech ideas from Mawek too.  I hope its a movie...going to look for its kickstarter page.
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I live in Maryland where it's mostly flat, couldn't connect until we were 1/2 mile away, So much for a 30 mile range, apparently even the curvature of the earth is enough to block the signal at only a couple of miles. I'm not really sure where you'd ever get a direct 30 mile line of sight.
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I first mounted on our deck shooting it out our driveway and tested with myself and hubby in house.  Would not pick me up at about 50 feet away; however, I mounted on tree and a friend just drove in and it sounded off.  Im thinking I will place back on deck railing and check with vehicle later.  I carved out an area from a quart plastic bottle, drilled a hole in bottom to hopefully keep this unit dry. Hoping for an alert from the end of our driveway about 100 feet out.  Adding my temporary perch on tree, still playing with location.
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Joanne Guidoccio's book, Between Land and Sea is the story of a woman's journey. Not a typical journey as Isabella, aka Barbara Davies, was a mermaid. She is human now, on her own, her only lifeline a face on a tablet to connect to her past and give her guidance and assistance on how to cope on land in the small town of Carden, Canada. This once proud, eternally youthfully mermaid must now deal with a rather frumpy, middle age, overweight body. If she fails to find a mate within a year, when the electronic lifeline and free rent expires, she will be forced to fend for herself. This is a very interesting story of learning, adaptation, and growth as Barbara deals with her past mistakes and learns to live among humankind on her own.
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OK, radio waves cannot be transmitted efficiently in deep ocean waters. That is because salt water is very conductive. Radio wave is a spectrum of electromagnetic wave. Transmitting electromagnetic wave in a conductive media, induces electric eddy electric currents, hence converting the wave into electricity. Therefore the wave strength would be absorbed by the ocean saltwater. The higher the frequency the worse the absorption.

So submarines have to use ultra low freq (below 10 Hz) to communicate effectively. Well, 10 Hz doesn't allow very fast communication, does it? But in this movie, the surface control personnel were communicating with the deep sea robot pilots like almost instantaneously and with so many words too.

The effortlessness invested in this inaccuracy is mirrored by the cheap screen play. It is like they don't care about how the audience is immersed into the movie. The actors are kept talking talking talking without bothering to induce a sense of reality into the audience. And worse, Graham Greene made to shoot off from his hip, a hardly believable southern US accent.