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Restoring Gilbert Klingel’s Freya
Gilbert Klingel 1908 – 1983
Ever wonder what it would be like to lay on the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay for 100 hours and just observe the marine life and the way the tides and currents flow?
How about being shipwrecked on a sparsely populated remote island near the shores of Cuba after a violent storm at sea with little provisions and little knowledge of where you actually were?
What would it be like to teach yourself science and write three award winning books that are still in publication 80 years later?
Would you be able to build underwater submersibles for studying marine life and then turn that skill into building 30 – 75 foot boats with metal hulls, by hand practically by yourself?
Could you head up an expedition with the National Geographic Society in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay that would result in the first ever large scale recorded underwater color photography?
Gilbert Klingel did all of these things and also built a boat yard on Gwynn’s Island, Virginia, to fulfill his dreams as a self-taught naturalist and explorer.
