ocean travel

The Coast Guard recommends that mariners crossing the open ocean travel with multiple forms of communication, including radios and satellite and an electronic position radio beacon so authorities can find those needing rescue.

Vescovo has since sold Limiting Factor to a scientific operation, but Outside magazine credits him with shifting the landscape of deep ocean travel, which has slowly but surely been catching up to outer space in terms of rich-person tourism.

The innovation of the steamship - like the 280-foot SS Central America - made ocean travel easier but could also lead to complacency when considering weather at sea, said Mr Evans.

Ocean travel had become far easier than it was following the opening of Japan, and designers, including Louis Cartier, began sending representatives to Asian countries.

These images link notions of modern transit with ocean travel, he said, when the ancestors navigated without a compass.