09/24/2025
At age 19 Matthew Fontaine Maury got in a stage coach accident and while confined to a hospital bed his daughter sought to comfort her father and read the Psalms to him. It was this verse Psalm 8:8 that caught Brother Maury’s attention; specifically the phrase “the paths of the sea.” This inspired him to explore the record keeping of captains of the sea. It was from these records he produced charts that showed the shipping lanes of the oceans and became known as the Father of Oceanography. Now you know the rest of the story.
