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> Hello from Dutch Harbor, AK, Why we don't have new journal posts yet...
Sam an Patty
post May 6 2006, 12:05 AM
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Hello Everyone,
Sam and Patty here. We have arrived in Dutch Harbor, a little island in the Aleutian Island chain. Our hotel doesn't have the wireless connection that we thought it did, so we are having trouble accessing the Internet. In fact, we are at the public library for a few fleeting moments, emailing and posting like mad!

Our ship has been delayed for a day because it was called on a search and rescue mission. So, we will not board the Healy until Sunday (hopefully). We hope to post new journal entries on Sunday or Monday. We promise that we have been taking lots of pictures to upload to our photo gallery.

More soon,
Sam and Patty
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Bob Woolf, science teacher in Ga
post May 8 2006, 05:14 PM
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QUOTE(Sam an Patty @ May 6 2006, 12:05 AM) *

Hello Everyone,
Sam and Patty here. We have arrived in Dutch Harbor, a little island in the Aleutian Island chain. Our hotel doesn't have the wireless connection that we thought it did, so we are having trouble accessing the Internet. In fact, we are at the public library for a few fleeting moments, emailing and posting like mad!

Our ship has been delayed for a day because it was called on a search and rescue mission. So, we will not board the Healy until Sunday (hopefully). We hope to post new journal entries on Sunday or Monday. We promise that we have been taking lots of pictures to upload to our photo gallery.

More soon,
Sam and Patty


You likely already know that Dutch Harbor has one of the two most valuable fisheries landings in the U.S., the other port being Kodiak, if my old knowledge is still true today. The Alaska pollock fishery, this fish being one of four true cods in our waters, has been in some years the world's largest single species fishery, rivaling the Peruvian anchovies for that distinction. Some of this catch, which is about 10 times the catch of all other species, including shellfish, in Alaskan waters, is magically made into fake crab (surimi...spelling?) in Dutch processing facilities. Dutch is also known for its geothermal energy production potential, which until recently was being looked at seriously together with technical help from Iceland. Years ago, way back in 1991, together with former Dutch mayor Paul Fuhs, we looked into the possibility of using this resource (some say it is 100 megawatts) to make hydrogen as a transportable fuel for the fishing fleet. It is still a potential which is looking more and more attractive as the price of oil skyrockets. Most of our remote communities still rely on oil-based fuels for electrical generation and transportation of all sorts.

You might find some interesting things to visit in Dutch while there.
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