Challenging Habitat

Embracing the Challenge

Let’s spell it out: cleaning communal toilets, sharing a dormitory with strangers, travel sickness, washing up for 46 people and standing in the wind and rain for hours on end are not common entries on people’s lists of… Read More

Coral community, Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Tipping Points

Two years ago, I read an article in Nature News called “Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’‘ [1], referring to the Global Tipping Points Report 2023, the article warned about Arctic and Antarctic ice, coral… Read More

sunset in scotland

World Ocean Week 2025

I’d like to mark World Ocean Week with a good story, but where to start? There are so many!

Pelican on anchor off Douglas

Barrow – Isle of Man – LLandudno – Liverpool

Pelican of London toured three beautiful(ly interesting) parts of the British Isles this week with a crew of seasoned seafarers on board, including Neil, John and Gaz of the Kimber’s Men!

Songs of the Sea

We’re on board Pelican of London with a bunch of musicians and seasoned (tall) ship sailors. It’s sunny, the sky is deep blue and we’re waiting in Barrow lock for the evening tide…

Coral Community at Bocas Del Toro, Panama. (c) C Braungardt 2024

Diversity in Maritime Pledge

Whether in nature or the workplace, communities or families: diversity enriches our experience.

Pelican of London of St Peter Port

Ocean Science Voyage to the Channel Islands

Plankton, fish, water, sand, sediment and bleach: 25 young people from Devon and Cornwall explore the marine system in a beautiful bay off Sark in the Channel Islands.

Evening at sea (c) C Braungardt 2022

Oceans”R”Us

“Never before could we see or understand that the most important thing we extract from the ocean is our existence.”

"Deep blue sea" by A.Cahlenstein Photography is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Deep Ocean Fascination

It is National Marine Week and the Wildlife Trusts invite everyone to a multitude of events and actions around the country and to Sea the Connection we have with the ocean. Personally, it is the mysterious deep that… Read More

Tube worm at Bocas del Toros, Panama. (c) C Braungardt 2024

UN Ocean Decade News

Whether it is a ‘landmark win for nature‘, ‘ocean floor mapping‘ or the ‘sex lives of corals‘, there is something for everyone in the Ocean Science Highlights.

101 Years of Recognised Havoc

In 1922, the British geologist R. L. Sherlock argued that humankind had a major impact on inanimate nature in his work “Man as a Geological Agent”. 101 years later, the Anthropocene Working Group proposed Crawford Lake in Canada… Read More

Diatoms and other plankton under the microscope

Science Outreach at Sea: Olivia’s Experience on Pelican

Last year, Olivia Yorke-Dunne was our youngest ever Scientist in Residence on the sail training tall ship Pelican of London. This year, she’s been back.