An article on Wired.com led me to this striking composite image created from measurements taken by NASA’s Aura satellite. The satellite measured the amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is a pollutant created by various… Continue reading…

The MV Katsu Maru is a 40 metre long Japanese trawler, now lying approximately 30 metres south west of the MV Aster in Hout Bay. On days with good visibility, which has been the case… Continue reading…

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…

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…

A New York Times article describes the cacophony that assails our oceans. Let’s be clear: before man’s intervention, the oceans were by no means silent. Clicking and snapping noises from shrimp and other crustaceans, the… Continue reading…

A Wired.com article recently spotlighted the CMA CGM Marco Polo, which was christened in November 2012 and which for a few months will be the largest container ship in existence. The vessel is 396 metres… Continue reading…

Thousand Mile Song – David Rothenburg David Rothenburg’s Thousand Mile Song is an eccentric but occasionally charming meditation on humanity’s connection to the rest of nature. The author’s quest is to interact musically with whales,… Continue reading…

My role on the interweb of late has been more as a consumer rather than a producer of content, given the activities of the last few months and my resulting energy levels and state of… Continue reading…