Ocean acoustics is the study of sound and its behavior in the sea. When underwater objects vibrate, they create sound-pressure waves that alternately compress and decompress the water molecules as the sound wave travels through the sea. Sound waves radiate…
Waves or sea waves are a critical aspect of sailing and passage planning. What are waves and how are they created? The sea or water acts as a medium to transfer energy of the wind across the surface of the water.…
The water cycle which creates are atmosphere is a constant recycling process. Water evaporates off the ocean surface and goes into the atmosphere as water vapour clouds form due to particulate in the atmosphere which creates nucleate initiation points, when…
We live on a planet that is covered with liquid water. With roughly 326 million cubic miles and it cover 72% of the earths surface the Oceans covers a water layer spanning 15,000 miles at average depth 2 miles. It…
We left Marina Di Olbia on Tuesday 16 at 9.30am. No wind calm seas headed out across the Tyrrhenian Sea to Italy and Isla Di Ponza. Sky was covered with a low grey cumulus cloud blotting out the sun and the…