Tag: Amazon River

Americans are ‘People Who Care’, Amazon River Folk Say After Warners

Arizona native David Warner was used to traveling over great distances of water serving America as a petty officer aboard the aircraft supercarrier USS Independence (CV-62) in the 1970s. But his most demanding and daring mission was being captain of his own 50-foot boat, the Nova Esperanza,  traveling up the Amazon  “about a week” upriver from…


Volunteers Helping Volunteers in Some of the Poorest Countries of the World

Mercy Ships currently operates the largest non-governmental hospital ship in the world, staffed “mostly by volunteers,” said David Warner, 67, a two-decade, full-time volunteer with the organization that started in 1978. Warner, a U.S. Navy veteran, found a natural home in the maritime mission after his military service and 12-year stint as an Amazon river…