On May 4th, the German owned 994-passenger cruise ship, Mona Lisa, ran aground on a sandbar in the Irbe Strait of the Baltic Sea 11-miles off the coast of Latvia after the ship’s navigator plotted a maneuvering mistake and navigated the ship on the wrong side of the Lighthouse!
The cruise ship embarked on a [...]
In a true blue story, Paul Karason permanently tattooed himself using colloidal silver, a home remedy he used to treat a facial skin condition ten years ago. Paul turned Papa Smurf blue at the age of 47!
To Smurf your whole day long, watch Paul’s smurftastic video!
With a Papa Smurf colloidal silver facial mask, [...]
After years of neglecting Canadian Lighthouses, some of our Canadian cousins have acquired a profound sense of urgency to save the symbols of their maritime heritage.
After 24 years of automation, the Lighthouse was abandoned in 1983. According to the Canadian Coast Guard, Nottawasaga Island Lighthouse is structurally unstable when they deactivated the Lighthouse in [...]
Something stinks about the plans for the city treasure of Kingston, a historic Lighthouse at the junction of Rondout Creek and the Hudson River. According to a editorial written by the DailyFreeman.com, a city investment in the Lighthouse is long overdue and the Gateway to the city needs a expensive sewage line to attract [...]
Looking for Light-Keeper volunteer work on a rocky island off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts?
The Thacher Island Association is searching for two volunteer Lighthouse Keepers to help maintain the Twin Lights of Thacher Island, the iconic symbol of Rockport.
Paul St. Germain is offering a one-week apprenticeship program to train two assistant Lighthouse Keepers next [...]
News Flash: Bombs away on all Online Bidding!
The online auction has been temporarily suspended because the Lighthouse is a boundary marker for the Navy’s Aerial Firing Range and target area.
Furthermore, Naval authorities are not responsible for damage caused by projectiles, bombs, or missiles to any vessels, fishing structures, or fishing equipment located in the [...]
Beam me up, Scotty before this Beacon Battle begins!
Two Preservation Organizations have started to feud over the ownership of a Fourth-order Fresnel lens. Both the Light-keepers of the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society and the Ohio Lorain Lighthouse Foundation are NOT seeing the Light!
Since 1984, the Fresnel lens has been mounted in the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse [...]
Machias Seal Island, the nesting place of Atlantic puffins and a working Lighthouse, is in the Grey Zone of a maritime dispute between the American and Canadian governments.
Since the 1870s, both nations have claimed sovereignty of the island. The United States government refers to the 1783 peace treaty with Great Britain whereas the [...]
After 23 years of darkness, Tillamook Rock Lighthouse found new eternal life as a beacon for the Dust in the Wind. In 1980, Portland investors bought the Lighthouse for $50,000 and converted the sealed station into a Eternity at Sea Columbarium, the eternal resting place for the ashes of the deceased.
Thirty People paid [...]
On Oct 20, 2007, hundreds of dead fish washed ashore at Lighthouse Beach near Sanibel Island Lighthouse. Bowman’s and Blind Pass Beaches on the island have been closed for weeks due to a Water Quality issue. Sanibel Island Mayor Mike Denham suspected red tide was the cause yet, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute [...]