“When I was underwater and when the current swept me under and I started hitting against the rocks. That’s when I thought I was gonna die,” Kate Loshkareva says. A model standing on a rock on the ...
RICHARD ALLARD, ERICK ROGERS, PAUL MARTIN, TOMMY JENSEN, PHILIP CHU, TIM CAMPBELL, JAMES DYKES, TRAVIS SMITH, JEIKOOK CHOI, URIAH GRAVOIS Oceanography, Vol. 27, No. 3 ...
The ability to model and predict the size of ocean waves is important for the fishing industry from both logistic and economic perspectives. Essentially, the bigger the waves, the more expensive the ...
Until the end of the 20th century, scientists thought stories of massive waves rising up out of nowhere was just a myth sailors passed around, like sea monsters or mermaids. That changed in 1995 when ...
Most of us know that the moon is to thank for the tides and the wind for shaping the waves, but the credit for these stunning ocean wave photos goes to the photographers who captured them at just the ...
Sea Wave Energy Limited (SWEL) is a research and development company based in Cyprus and the U.K. They designed and developed a wave energy converter (WEC) called the Wave Line Magnet, which converts ...
Humanity is in desperate need of new energy sources if our species wants to continue enjoying this planet we like to call home. Ocean wave energy has a great potential to fulfill that need in some ...
Surf’s up: map showing the change in extreme (90th percentile) wave height between 1985-2018. Red indicates increasing values, whereas blue indicates decreases. (Courtesy: University of Melbourne) ...
A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping -- diminishing -- deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground ...