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28 votes
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Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
45 votes -
Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
10 votes -
How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
9 votes -
Taking sea passage across the Atlantic—how?
I’m looking for realistic alternatives to flying across the Atlantic Ocean. I write this from an airport. I utterly despise flying. I hate it. I dislike literally every step of the process. I find...
I’m looking for realistic alternatives to flying across the Atlantic Ocean.
I write this from an airport. I utterly despise flying. I hate it. I dislike literally every step of the process. I find the security screenings degrading despite the supposed advantages of TSA Pre-Check and Global Entry. I find the inefficient, class-based boarding process to be a complete waste of time. I am offended by the ridiculous itemized charges for luggage. Flying wreaks havoc on my body—my legs do not fit in their tiny seats and my head does not rest comfortably against their poorly adjustable headrest. Breathing stale, recirculating air for eight hours next to a coughing madman is unpleasant. When landing, without fail, the change in air pressure annihilates my sinuses, causing me a non-trivial amount of pain. I do not like it.
These factors, primarily, as well as some preference for an environmentally friendly lifestyle, have led me to ask for ways to avoid using an airplane to cross the pond.
I would be willing to pay somewhat more and spend considerably more time in transit to avoid flying. If it’s to be a particularly slow voyage (more than a week, as I imagine is typical), I would need an internet connection to work my job; something that can sustain a connection to a virtual machine, or in an ideal world take video calls. I have no other particular needs.
I obviously cannot take a train. I am left with only two options as a non-working passenger (I think): a cruise, or a cargo ship. The former sounds expensive. I have heard of people doing the latter but at a glance all I see online is “service paused due to COVID-19.” Surely that cannot truly be the case in 2023, though?
Does anyone have experience doing this? Can you offer advice on where to get started, what the experience is like, and what pitfalls to avoid? I am honestly almost at a breaking point here. I am obligated to take several transatlantic flights in the next year and I really cannot bear to continue doing this. I am open to ideas even if not all my criteria can be met. I appreciate any comments.
19 votes -
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
9 votes -
Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the ocean
46 votes -
Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
23 votes -
The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate?
14 votes -
North Atlantic Oscillation contributes to 'cold blob' in Atlantic Ocean
10 votes -
Expert reaction to a paper warning of a collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
34 votes -
The secret life of deep sea vents
16 votes -
The Titan submersible was “an accident waiting to happen”
55 votes -
All five people on Titan sub dead after 'catastrophic implosion'
173 votes -
US Navy 'knew about Titanic sub implosion days ago'
64 votes -
US Coast Guard to have a press conference to discuss the apparent debris field of uncertain origin found near the Titanic at 3pm EST
42 votes -
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
19 votes -
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
12 votes -
First account of apparent alloparental care of a long-finned pilot whale calf by a female killer whale near Snæfellsnes, in west Iceland
8 votes -
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
3 votes -
Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in Iceland each year
10 votes -
Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
8 votes -
After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
6 votes -
Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
6 votes -
As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
6 votes -
Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
4 votes -
Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
5 votes -
Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
5 votes -
A 'blue blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean has been slowing down the melting of Iceland's glaciers, a new study suggests
6 votes -
Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
12 votes -
Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
5 votes -
Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history
9 votes -
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
14 votes -
Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures
10 votes -
Atlantic currents seem to have started fading last century
6 votes -
Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
7 votes -
Does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks? Inland farms offer an alternative to diminishing wild Atlantic salmon stocks, but the price tag is higher carbon emissions
4 votes -
The waters around Tristan da Cunha, a remote British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, will become the fourth-largest completely protected marine area in the world
11 votes -
Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
5 votes -
The Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record fast start and is likely to get worse
8 votes -
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
6 votes -
Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
6 votes -
More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
12 votes -
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
3 votes -
Saint-Louis, Senegal: How the 'Venice of Africa' is losing its battle against the rising ocean
4 votes -
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
6 votes -
Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch
4 votes -
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht
7 votes -
The North Atlantic ocean current, which warms northern Europe, may be slowing
6 votes -
Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths
5 votes