How Rubber Ducks Are Helping Scientists Chart The Oceans
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2021
In early January 1992, the container ship Evergreen Ever Laurel departed Hong Kong for Washington. Among the millions of things that Ever L...
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Bathysphere: The World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2020
On the afternoon of September 22, 1932, listeners across America and the UK tuned their radio sets to an extraordinary live broadcast that w...
Sargasso Sea And Sargassum
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2019
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Caribbean, is unlike any other sea in this planet. The boundaries of the sea are defi...
Where Do The World’s Oceans Meet?
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2019
Two huge ocean waves clashing. Photo credit: David Bostoc/Shutterstock.com There are five oceans on earth, and all of them are connected w...
SS Warrimoo: The Ship That Missed New Year’s Eve But Gained Two Centuries
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2019
The story that follows supposedly happened more than a hundred years ago on the eve of New Year. It spanned two centuries, yet was over in a...
Brine Pools: The Underwater Lakes of Despair
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2018
Just like there are waterfalls underneath oceans , there can be lakes on seabed too. One is kept separate from the surrounding body of wate...
The World’s Largest Waterfalls Are Underwater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2018
Victoria Falls in southern Africa is often regarded as the world’s largest waterfalls. “Regarded”, because there is no standard method to me...
Null Island: The Fictional Place Created by Digital Mapping Error
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2018
A few hundred miles off the west coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea, a lonely weather buoy bobs up and down the ocean waves. Code named...
Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2017
Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies one of the geekiest junkyard in the world. It’s...
Cross Sea: When Two Waves Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2015
This strange pattern at sea is what happens when two wave systems cross each other at nearly perpendicular angles. This can occur when waves...
Cape Agulhas: The Place Where Two Oceans Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2014
When Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded the rocky headland of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula in 1488, he became the first European t...
Where the Namib Desert meets the Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2013
The Southern Namib desert is home to some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes of the world, ranging in color from pink to vivid orange...
The Atlantic Ocean and The Caribbean Sea at Eleuthera
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2013
Eleuthera is one of several islands that lies within the archipelago in The Bahamas, about 80 km east of the capital city Nassau. It is long...
