Kevin Widdowson Presents Boats and Airplanes

Kevin is the Captain of the CABLE INNOVATOR, a deep-sea vessel designed to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. These cables are the undersea internet network cables providing our connections to distant places. It was built in 1995, is currently sailing under the flag of UK and is berthed in the Port Angeles Harbor. Its mission is cable repair on the west coast from Alaska to Mexico.

Kevin was chosen out of 350 applicants as a member of the 6-person crew on the Cable & Wireless Adventurer, the around-the-world voyage encompassing 10 countries and 15 ports in just 73 days. According to Kevin, it was a trip of a lifetime; however comfort was not part of the experience. Below are pictures of the unique boat.

The Cable & Wireless Adventurer was designed and built to circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 days, to break the world record held by the US. Equipped with mostly British-designed, state-of-the-art navigation and communications equipment, the unique 115-foot stabilized monohull , twin-diesel powered vessel, left Gibraltar on 19 April 1998 on its pioneering 26,000-mile world-wide journey.