Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebrating the sea.

On 17 March 1959, the USS Skate became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole.Under the guidance of James Calvert this nuclear submarine had navigated through polar ice packs, braved atrociously cold conditions, and broken through layers of thick ice to arrive at their destination; the northernmost point of the world.This mission, however, was not just about completing a seemingly impossibly feat of Arctic exploration. It also had huge im...