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Test your marine geography knowledge with this URI/NOAA map of the World’s Largest Watersheds and Currents. To get you started here are the first three answers:

Bearing Bering Sea
Gulf Of Alaska
California Current

Click HERE for the large printable version of the Quiz and HERE for the answers.
For a full sized color version of this map download the […]

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When tornado’s strike over sea they are know as Waterspouts. The Florida Keys see the largest number of waterspouts per year with as many as 400 to 500 in a given season. In this video, captured last May, a rather large waterspout collides with a number of ships off the cost of Singapore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_Kqowj6rs

Are waterspouts […]

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The New York Times ran a great feature last week:
“What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish”

Steven Senne/Associated Press
Mating calls of the black drum can carry through sea walls and into homes. Click here to listen to the sounds of the black drum and other fish. Don’t miss the Interactive Feature

The […]

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Seven Seas Mariner in Skagway, Ak
…not really, the cadence actually sounds more alluring than the job. I’d like to see the old Love Boat series glamorize this position. Come to think of it, the love boat engineers were never seen or heard from.
The State of Alaska has legislated that large commercial passenger vessels […]

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The AP tells of an earthquake at 18:05GMT today located at 125 miles north of London England:
An earthquake struck Britain early Wednesday and was felt across large parts of the country. No injuries or damage were immediately reported.
The 4.7-magnitude quake struck at about 1 a.m. and was centered about 125 miles north of London, […]

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OPA 90, the legislation enacted after the Exxon Valdez incident mandated double hull technology, essentially wrapping a second hull around the first, on all newly built tankers. While this has been mostly effective and (had it been mandated for use on container ships) would have prevented last year’s San Francisco Oil Spill, it fails to […]

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The most technologically advanced drillship in the world is not on lovaton in the gulf of mexico or in a Korean shipyard. Actually it’s not even built yet. Meet the Aurora Borealis, a dynamically positioned, drillship/icebreaker, arctic research vessel designed for the European Union. The official website tells us;
The Research Icebreaker AURORA BOREALIS will be […]

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Photo by AMagill
We all know the basics of knots. They rely on friction to cinch against themselves or an object, they reduce the breaking strength of a line and a good one is easy to remove but what about randomly created knots? Doug Smith, a physics professor at the University of California set to find […]

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The Star Tribune points us to a new prehistoric discovery;
Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric “monster” reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded, researchers said Tuesday.
Initial excavation on the Svalbard islands, 300 miles north of Norway’s mainland, in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of […]

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Physics World points us to an article from the most respected journal in science; Nature. They tell us;
Every so often mariners report the sighting of a huge wave towering up to 30 m above the regular swells of the ocean surface. No-one is sure why these rogue waves form, but now physicists in the US […]

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