Randall Munroe of xkcd has answered another hypothetical question in his What If? series: How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth’s waters? The answer… Continue reading…

Times are busy at present, so you’ll excuse the brief post that is only tenuously related to the ocean. I’m sure you’ll agree, however, that the tenuous link is a rather special one. This is… Continue reading…

Yesterday we read an interview with George Burgess of the International Shark Attack File. The very name of the file – containing the word “attack” – says something about our view of sharks. When writing… Continue reading…

Outside Online features an interview with George Burgess, who wears many shark-related hats. One of them is that he is director of the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), a database of every interaction between a… Continue reading…

I really don’t like fishing. The Fish – Elizabeth Bishop I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth…. Continue reading…

Wired.com reports that scientists studied the reactions of baby bamboo sharks – creatures found in the western Pacific Ocean that seem to be very similar to our local shysharks – while they were still inside… Continue reading…

While on the subject of cruise ships, let’s turn to an article in Der Spiegel about the salvage operation that is to be undertaken on the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, currently aground… Continue reading…

Here are a few more pictures of the MSC Opera passing through the Northern Lock out of the North Sea Canal, at IJmuiden in the Netherlands.

Tony and I spent a few weeks in Europe last summer, visiting Malta for some dives, and family in Denmark. On our way between these destinations we spent a night in IJmuiden, a Dutch port… Continue reading…

Hawaii is one of the places on earth where an enlightened government is working for mutual safety of the local shark population, and the surfers, swimmers and other water users who occasionally happen upon sharks… Continue reading…