New Research Shows Where Deep Sea Trash Accumulates
We've all heard about the vast amounts of plastic accumulating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We've all seen trash washed up on our beaches. But what about
We've all heard about the vast amounts of plastic accumulating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We've all seen trash washed up on our beaches. But what about
Investing in our ocean’s health will help not only respond to future disasters, but also better withstand their
New plan aimed at protecting oceans, coastal and Great Lakes environments around the United States while safeguarding related
By Susan Olcott, This New Year comes with new opportunities – as well as the potential for conflicts – in the open ocean. In 2013, the US federal
20 miles off Santa Cruz, California, Mark Peters and some friends were fishing for albacore and playing around with a custom underwater “torpedo”
IMO marked the celebration, with Secretary-General Mr. Koji Sekimizu offering the following statement: This year’s World Oceans Day falls as the
It’s really quite difficult to take a photo of an ocean wave that really looks like anything more than a ripple in the water once you download it to
Following yesterdays amazing visualization showing us for the first time what wind over the United States actually looks like, now we take a look at what ocean
Illustration courtesy ABS The American Bureau of Shipping has just approved a new concept for renewable energy production for a commercial grid that converts
Photo By Rob Almeida, Copyright 2011 Remarks by NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco during Capitol Hill Oceans Week June 7, 2011 Good morning everyone! Let
An Astray Film. Amazing photography by Allan Wilson…
gCaptain searches the web each week to bring you the world’s most interesting and inspiring ships, but you don’t need to be a naval architect to
If you are a fan of dramatic nature films or just looking to get some Christmas shopping for the little ones out of the way you should think about
Over most of the world, the oceans appear to many of us as a huge blue expanse of territory, the domain of King Neptune and the denizens of the
From the gCaptain Archives: In honor of the EPA’s Pollution Week, let’s take a look at an archived post on Skysails. But first, here is a brief
By Nat Spencer Two summers ago, after the finish of the 2008 Newport-Bermuda Race, three of my buddies and I were delivering a 45-foot Swan back to Newport,
With all the recent talk of the Gulf Oil Spill and its effect on the marine environment it is good to take a moment and look at some of
The first-ever 7,300-mile Atlantic Ocean crossing by an unmanned underwater glider is opening up a new world of ocean technology. A ceremony on Dec. 9 in
It’s official, today is the first UN designated World Oceans Day. The concept for World Oceans Day was proposed at the 1992 Earth Summit and has been
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