<p>I'm learning that these sea year deployments are turning into quite the geography lesson. In trying to figure out where the boy is, I've been using a couple of tools that are making it fairly easy to track the ship.</p>
<p>He's on a Matson ship, which is nice because at the Matson site there is a GPS locator for each ship. A couple of times a day I look at it and get the latitude / longitude and then go into Google Earth and enter the coordinates and label it with a "stick pin" along with the date/time. Google Earth has weather overlays, etc which make it easier to figure out where the "rough seas" are going to be.</p>
<p>The other nice feature is that I can take a "snapshot" of the map (along with the location pins) and email the map to his grandma...it's a .jpg attachment so she just has to double click it to open...no skill required :) (don't tell her I said that).</p>
<p>What did parents do before all this innernet stuff ?</p>