An iPhone Compass is Not a Compass

Also while visiting Australia, I had a chance to hear some great war stories from my grandfather. He served heroically on a submarine with the Dutch Navy in WWII off the coast of France and in a covert mission against the Japanese in Western Australia. He then went on to be a commercial ship captain, later a tugboat captain and later a fisherman. He has spent the majority of his life out at sea. I decided to show him my handy-dandy compass on my new iPhone. Maybe its not a nautical compass but it should at least show me East! He told me an iPhone Compass is not a Compass.

Peter Describes Underwater Welding

Last December I had the rare opportunity to spend a month in Australia with my mother's side of the family. Most nights were spent out on the back porch story telling. On this particular night my uncle told some stories of his days as an underwater welder. He was a diver who spent a majority of his career welding on oil pipelines and rigs. I wonder now what he would say about the disaster in the gulf.


Here is a story of him welding off of a ship stuck in a tropical storm.