Here’s a cool video that shows tidal movement at Black’s beach over time. http://cil-www.coas.oregonstate.edu/ncex/blacky.c1.small.mov 

Underwater gliders are helping oceanographers remotely collect real-time information about water currents, pollution and ocean organisms.  They’re currently patroling the waters off the coast of California.  Here’s a link to the project portal and a regularly updated video depicting the gliders movements. Link

Here are a couple of links to an interesting study of the deep canyons that make the waves at Black’s so special. http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=591 http://science.whoi.edu/users/elgar/NCEX/ncex.html    

Until now scientists had identified and named  about 5,000 different marine microbes, but a recent survey suggests that there could be over 100 times that amount living in our oceans.  Using a DNA probe marine biologists  found  20,000 microbes living in a single liter of seawater. "A swimmer taking just a swallow of seawater may [...]

Scientists in Australia are taking a novel approach to generating power from wave energy.  From the looks of it, this generator would not steal as much of the waves’ power, so surfers would not suffer from smaller waves.    I wonder if the English have looked into using this technology for their proposed wave energy [...]

Here’s a cool story cool story about how researchers are learning more about ocean currents by tracking where the toy ducks wash to shore.  Keep your eyes peeled for those ducks – they’re probably worth something.     Link

The LA Times reports that an environmental economist at UCLA, in partnership with Stanford University, recently published a study concluding that each year 1.5 million people get sick from visiting California beaches. The study goes so far as to estimate that all those illnesses cost the economy up to $414 million annually. “Researchers estimated that [...]

It’s no secret that Indonesia is a popular destination for surfers.  If you’re planning on traveling to Indo, you should read up on the latest news.  Until Indonesia implements a reliable tsunami warning system, the rest of the world is going to have to help them along.  Awareness always helps.   This site http://indonesiahelp.blogspot.com/ appears [...]

Anyone who’s seen or read The Perfect Storm has heard of rogue waves, aka "freak waves", giant waves that form and break far out at sea.  These freakishly large waves can obliterate small ships and do serious damage, even sink, large ocean going vessels like oil tankers.  Until recently scientists understood little about what causes [...]

Here’s a pretty sweet story from PBS about a group of Puerto Rican surfers fighting to protect their local break from being wrecked by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] Although the story is nearly a year old, those [...]