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In 1960 a cable ship was built around circular tanks holding thousands of miles of cable, coiled down flat by hand by men walking the coil as it…
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In 1960 there were ships whose entire purpose was to stay in one place - moored on a single enormous anchor over a sandbank or a shoal where…
There is a habit of describing sea organisms using land vocabulary, and it causes a persistent misunderstanding about seaweed.
The words used — root, stem, leaf — describe a land…
There is an idea about sailing that seems obviously true and is only half the story.
The idea is that a sail is a bag that catches the wind and…
There is a question that sounds simple and is not: what is the minimum an animal needs in order to be an animal?
Most of the answers people reach for…
There is a distinction that changes how a whole category of coastal feature should be thought about, and it comes down to whether something is a population or a structure.…