Bonnie Schubert

Underwater explorer passionate about historic shipwrecks.

[The Scuba News @TheScubaNews]

Before scuba tanks existed, divers in Finland used an 18th-century diving suit made from cowhide, sealed with tar and mutton fat.
Known as the “Old Gentleman of Raahe,” it’s believed to be the oldest surviving diving suit in the world, and a replica proved the design actually worked underwater.

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[CaribbeanNewsNetwork @caribbeannewsuk]

#BAHAMAS: The election pits Davis and his ruling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) against the opposition Free National Movement (FNM), led by Michael Pintard, as voters weigh concerns over affordability, housing, immigration and government accountability.

[Travel Tomorrow @TravelTomorrowX]

No alcohol for cruise passengers and holidaymakers in Bahamas during 12 May elections
#Bahamas #Elections #AlcoholBan #Cruise #passengers #RoyalCaribbean #travel
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[Native Stew 🇧🇸 @NativeStew]

The Bahamas goes to polls in three-way battle with immigration a key issue
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[Bonnie Schubert @captbonnie]

There’s beauty in work. above and below.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Christmas was never meant to be easy or safe. It began in the cold, not the comfort. A child born without shelter to a family with no power announced not to kings but to shepherds who smelled of animals and sleep. That detail matters more than we like to admit.

Somewhere tonight, lights glow in warm homes. Somewhere else, someone eats alone and pretends not to notice the silence. Somewhere a nurse works a double shift, a father sleeps in his car, a mother counts what she cannot give her children. Christmas happens there too. It always has.

We’ve turned Christmas into a season of excess and distraction, but its core is confrontation. It asks an uncomfortable question. What do you do when God, meaning, or truth enters the world quietly, without spectacle, and asks for room in your life? Not applause. Not posts. Room.

The original scandal of Christmas is humility. Not weakness, but restraint. Power choosing smallness. Glory wrapped in vulnerability. That idea unsettles us because it exposes how loudly we chase importance while missing what actually saves us.

If Christmas feels heavy this year, you’re closer to it than you think. If you feel grief, longing, or a sharp awareness of what’s broken, you are standing near the manger, not far from it.

This day was never for the polished. It was for the tired, the overlooked, and the searching.

So before the music fades and the lights come down, sit with the unease. Let Christmas wound you just enough to wake you up. Because a story that begins in a stable is not asking you to celebrate comfort. It’s asking you to choose love when it costs something.

Merry Christmas!

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[Bonnie Schubert @captbonnie]

Writing stiffens and gasps with inactivity, flows with the in shape regular exercise #writing #creativity

[Bonnie Schubert @captbonnie]

Rare gold from the S.B. Pulaski shipwreck. Die-variety HM-3. #treasure #shipwreck #goldcoin
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[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

Off the northern coast of Israel, archaeologists have discovered the remains of three shipwrecks and their cargoes that challenge historians’ understanding of Iron Age life and economies in the Mediterranean. https://t.co/B5Yrah6SQo

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The enormous flag from the French ship Le Généreux, captured by Admiral Nelson in 1800, is one of the oldest surviving examples of the Tricolour.

Humans for scale.

[The Scuba News @TheScubaNews]

"Whether you’re an elite athlete or someone who takes blood pressure meds, you might think you’re invincible in the water. But once you see a friend nearly drown without ever taking his regulator out of his mouth, you think differently about panic"

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#Scuba #Diving #ScubaDiving #TSN #TheScubaNews

[Bonnie Schubert @captbonnie]

Waking up first light
Rain squall
Feeling tied to the dock
Feeling the getting ready
Feeling the satisfaction of solid boat
Feeling the ocean waiting
#boat #maritime

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Gold pendant set with a shark’s tooth, Etruscan, 4th century BC; ornamented with filigree. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Teeth and other parts of powerful animals were widely worn in the ancient Mediterranean for protection.
Across the Greco‑Roman world and later Europe, fossil shark teeth—known as glossopetrae or “tongue stones”—circulated as apotropaic and medicinal objects. Museums document beliefs that such teeth guarded against poisons and snakebite; they were worn as pendants or dipped into suspect drinks.

[Bonnie Schubert @captbonnie]

Aztec Airways begins year-round daily service to North Eleuthera #Bahamas
https://t.co/hfWOXz532H via @GuardianNassau

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

Another mystery of the deep solved.

Royal Navy historians have confirmed that a North Sea wreck found by dive team ProjectXplore is #WW1 cruiser HMS Nottingham.

She was sunk by U-boat off Northumbria in 1916 while scouting for the Grand Fleet.

https://t.co/8vJZReETYE

[Bonnie Schubert @captbonnie]

There is more here than the profits/losses of companies. Access to data, to communication, to the world is vital. I remember when only the towns had landlines on Eleuthera, rabbit ears on TV could maybe pick up a fuzzy signal from Nassau, no cell phones. News was 810 AM radio. Now we have choices on how we connect. The islands are a tough environment with salt and storms constantly destroying land lines. That signal from the sky can reach even in de' bush. #bahamas #starlink #telecommunications #telecomtrends2025

[Tribune242 @Tribune242]

CABLE FEARS STARLINK MAY FORCE THEM OUT OF MARKET
Cable Bahamas is warning it may “be forced to exit the market and/or file for bankruptcy” if regulators fail to ensure it can compete on equal terms with Elon Musk’s Starlink and other satellite providers.
https://t.co/f2M6gdISJq

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs , The Bahamas 🇧🇸 @MOFABahamas]

Happy 52nd Independence Day to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. We pledge to excel in love and unity! 🇧🇸

[E/V Nautilus @EVNautilus]

We're currently in the middle of our Maritime Archaeology of Guadalcanal (NA173) expedition to conduct non-invasive archaeological surveys of historically significant shipwrecks in the #IronBottomSound. Learn more in our blog: https://t.co/W5t5jcQtyE

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

A pocket watch discovered in a deadly Lake Michigan shipwreck has returned home to the United Kingdom after 165 years. https://t.co/Gx2Z9Qh8gt