In August of 2006, the crew of Maiken were sailing to Fiji when they noticed what, from afar, looked like a sandbar. They had been sailing through water threaded with streaks of brown; what they thought might be remnants of an oil spill. So when they noticed the 'sandbar' in the distance, they felt they were obligated to check it out. It was only when they got closer that they realized that it wasn't a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, but a sea of floating pieces of pumice. They ... View the Post