Growing up, I did not have a mind for science or marine biology and I did not live in a part of the country where people’s livelihoods and daily habits intersect with the mercurial and vast entity that is the ocean. Despite my figurative landlocked status, as a young child, I was obsessed by the tragedy of the RMS Titanic and the ensuing discovery of the wreck some seventy-three years after it sank in the North Atlantic on a cold April evening in 1912. Continue reading The Titanic: A 20th Century Ozymandias
The Composite 