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Precipitation of ochre from a metalliferous mine water outflow at Wheal Augusta in Devon. (c) Braungardt 2018

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Gene Cernan

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Dancing drones

Imagine you have sailed through the night, watched a beautiful sunrise and finally the anchor has found a firm hold…you are enjoying the calm of the morning…when a buzzing sound alerts you to the presence of a drone overhead, rudely interrupting the privacy of having your breakfast on deck. That sums up my irritation with…

What lurks beneath the sea surface?

The ROV is deployed and we’re watching the seabed habitat in real time. Seaweed…a crab…a glimpse of a fish… What if we could find out what animals are actually living in the sea beneath the waves? We can and we did! We were on the sail training tall ship Pelican of London for the annual…

“I am Ocean”

The fact that terrestrial vertebrates, including me, descended from an early marine fish some 375 million years ago is too far fetched for me to say I am ocean. Nevertheless, for me this statement holds some scientific and some emotional truths. What I mean is marine identity and it comes from my deep emotional ocean…


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