Angry
Seas
16.11.06
GWA correspondent
‘Two
men died and another was seriously injured yesterday when an oil
tanker was hit by a huge wave in gale force winds near Orkney,’
reported the Mail on Sunday, November 12th. ‘The men are
believed to have been on the deck of the Singapore-registered
tanker, which had just picked up a load of crude oila the Scaapa
Flow terminal when it ran into the storm, with winds up to 63mph
and a 12-15 ft swell’ for GWA related article comment read
Life On the Ocean Wave
Trade
Winds Weakening
6th July 2006
By GWA Correspondent
In the harbour, in the island, in the Spanish Seas,
Are the tiny white houses and the orange trees,
And day-long, night-long, the cool and pleasant breeze
Of the steady Trade Winds blowing.
John
Masefield’s poem from his Sea Ballads was written over a
hundred years ago, but the steady reliable trade winds to which
he referred are weakening according to a recent study released
in the 4th May issue of Nature read
more
Life
On the Ocean Wave
31st May 2006
GWA Correspondent
So
goes the Royal Marines marching song and a catchy number it is
but for how much longer mankind will be able to use the seas for
his purposes of trade, military expression of power, or simply
for pure pleasure is a question that is anything but trivial Read
more
High
Seas Set To Become Higher
23rd May
GWA Correspondent
We’ve
all read about it, worried and wondered about rising sea levels
due to melting glaciers and polar ice caps. That’s part
of it, but thermal expansion as the surface layer of the sea heats
up is viewed by the IPCC * as likely to have the greater effect
on sea levels over the 21st century. The oceans around us are
a heat sink and after all cover 71% of the earth’s surface
read more
