Hunter’s Choice
Cessna
http://www.dreamfleet2000.com/Previews/C310/VC.html
Cessna 310, wonderful web site for the aviation buff.
Fiborn Quarry
http://www.caves.org/conservancy/mkc/kiosk8.html
you can navigate forward or back for more info. Imagine Matt sneaking around the crusher and shop building.
Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain
http://www.nps.gov/chch/historyculture/index.htm
First National Military Park — 1890. Good tipping point for a war or Matt’s decisions.
Keys
http://www.upperkeysdivesites.com/
click on #5 — Alligator Reef, then check out pictures — great site, excellent pictures.
More info and pictures of the light.
http://www.keysweb.info/infopages/Dives/alligator.htm
This was the dive Matt and Mr. Vega made.
http://floridakeys.noaa.gov/coraleducation.html
Read this and you’ll never drop an anchor on coral.
Gulf Stream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream
A force worth knowing about.
http://wdstudio.net/gulfstreamturbine/index.htm
Interesting technology and wonderful idea — we can conquor our energy problems if we want to. Too few are making too much from too many.
Bahamas — including tide info.
http://www.tamug.edu/cavebiology/Bahamas/KarstBahama.html
Good Bahama web site — shows islands with options for more information.
The Moon and tides
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
good info re tides. Most boaters read this material after they go aground. Snorkelers get interested after they cut the hell out of themselves trying to swim in 2 feet of ebbing tide over horn coral.
The earth rotates — the moon is over an earth point once in 25 hours. Its draw causes high and low tides every 12 1/2 hours. Not the same as the 27 day orbit of the moon around the earth. The orbit change makes the high and lows vary by 50 minutes per day. The sun, seasons and topography also change tides. Use charts.
Dominican Republic
http://www.cofresidr.com/about.php
Webb’s villa, beautiful, you can rent it for $2300 to $3500/week, w/o gangsters attacking.
Hunter’s Secret
Granite Island
A wonderful WEB site showing the island and the efforts of his owner.
See: www.photosearch.com # 419751
For a great aerial picture of the rugged island.
Superior Wrecks
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/
a fine source of information and to meet people dedicated to appreciating and preserving our shipping heritage
http://www.baillod.com/shipwreck/projects/wrecklaw/
Perfectly not clear…
Law of Salvage and Law of Finds
http://www.rms-republic.com/reference/Volume67No1Article6.pdf
Too bad that all these law makers hadn’t gone down with the
ships.
Read about Mel Fisher and the Atocha– page 96.
David Swayze- expert on Great Lakes wrecks.
http://www.boatnerd.com/swayze/shipwreck/
A very friendly, dedicated, and knowledgeable man: not a nerd at all…
82 footer — Point Class
Beautiful ship- a shame to burn and sink it!
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Point_Class_WPB_Index.asp
Lots of time and effort to find this information and government site- (free)
http://www.hnsa.org/doc/plans/wpb82301.pdf
Lake Superior
The Ojibwe call the lake Gichigami, meaning “big water.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the name as “Gitche Gumee” in The Song of Hiawatha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior
Cold water diving
http://www.sportdiver.com/article.jsp?ID=37799&destinationID=
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition10/hottopics/colddiving.html
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/scuba/diving.html
Mix gas diving
http://www.nurc.uconn.edu/technologies/diving.htm
Books- read a lot or you’re in trouble.
p>http://www.bestpub.com/bookstore2.asp?Category=MixedGasDiving
Nuclear Waste Disposal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction
http://www.scientiapress.com/findings/sea-based.htm
Hunter’s Escape
Holiday Isle on Islamorada
http://www.hotelsavings.com/booking/1040005
Good pictures of the Tiki Bar and the Marina. One of only a few motels with a good walk-out beach area in the Keys. This was where the Reefer was moored.
Dry Tortugas National_Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Tortugas_National_Park
National Park, jumping off harbor for the Reefer’s run south to Mexico.
Times of June 6, 2010
http://article.wn.com/view/2010/06/07/Mexican_drug_gang_killers_cut_out_victims_hearts/
Info on Cancun and its state — Quintana Roo. Governor arrested for drug trafficking. You can’t functionalize a more lawless place… New news reports continue bloody tales of gang actions.
Official Mexican Customs and Immigration information
http://www.seaworthy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=285&Itemid=307
You should read some of the comments from yacht travelers… “Clearing in — not for the faint of heart.” Tequila is the only answer!
List of Mexico’s 37 most-wanted drug lords
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mexico’s_37_most-wanted_drug_lords
Pick up a few Million US Dollars, find one of these men! I made up Momo — carefully…
FN Five-seven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_Five-seven
Everything you need to know about the remarkable FN Five-seven semiautomatic.
Hunter’s Witness
The Meaning of Islam: http://wiliislam.net/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Islam. A very worthy article. The triconsonantal root, SLM, used in the words, Muslim and Islam, are key to many Arabic words. SLM means, “Submission.”
The Religion of Peace, http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm , this isn’t popular at the mosque!
Polonium 210 has rich coverage: Death by Polonium-210 by Doctors McFee and Leikin documents the death of Soviet spy Alexander Litvinenko. Al Jazeera has an article on Yasser Arafat’s poisoning. A good scientific summary on the deadly material is at:
http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/po.htm
The machine gun used in the novel is the FN P90. It is hard to describe, but very well documented at: