Larger than usual Pacific algal blooms are being blamed for the deaths of 26 out of 40 rescued sea lions at California’s Pacific Marine Mammal Center, in Laguna Beach. Demoic acid released by the blooms makes fish species like sardines toxic to predators like the sea lions. The toxin inhibits nerve transmission in the animal’s [...]
Horatio Nelson: The making of a seaman Dan Houston charts the career that began as a 12-year-old Midshipman in 1771 and ended at Trafalgar, 34 years later It seems almost brutal to us now that children aged 12 or sometimes even younger could be sent to sea in a first rate man of war. These [...]
Marcus and Freya Pomeroy-Rowden explain how they built their 18th century replica three masted lugger Grayhound and for the last two seasons have been trading under sail, taking goods across the Channel and beyond... The goods have the cachet of having a very low carbon footprint but the couple explain that some of the wine [...]
