Photo: Malia Manuel © Morgan Maassen

Issue 16 features

Out There in the Pacific: 8,000 Miles in a Rowing Boat

Rowing the Pacific is like embracing the world, it’s becoming a wave to be able to cross the sea, or losing your way and finding the courage to find yourself.

The Sounds of the Sea

The ocean imparts a rhythm to the planet. There is a universe of sound to wander through all the way to the origins of life. They are the sounds and silences above and below the surface.

Amorgos

The Cyclades are a pathway from northwest to southeast in the Aegean Sea. Yet, Amorgos is an outsider of an island, that lies separate from the Piraeus-Paros-Santorini grand tour. It has a more archaic and deeper soul.

Boatpacking: Minimalist Voyagers on Minimal Boats

Being at one with the sea, renegotiating dependence on technology and comfort. To rediscover essential, Polynesian navigation.

Manta Rays

Hanifaru Bay, Baa Atoll, a Unesco Biosphere Reserve. It’s the Southwest monsoon season and 800 manta rays or more twirl, spin around and dance, performing  ancestral movements. We tell this tale combining the contemporary vision of photographer Filippo Maffei and the memories of freediving champion Umberto Pelizzari.

Edith Widder

Beyond 90 meters below the surface, there is a shimmering, somewhat psychedelic, world that the American oceanographer discovered by turning off all the lights on her bathyscaphe.

Zen and the Art of the Mat

Viewed from an air mat, the world is a much more imaginative place to live. A treehouse on Kauai for home, clothes only if strictly necessary and the ocean as the undisputed realm of creativity.

Gente di Mare Award

Seafarers wanted. Tell us your story.