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|  Waves rise as mountains And rise to the heavens, And with horror drops glances Into instantly dug abysses A disturbing force like passion, Does not know of a centre point, Now to the sky, now into the precipice throws A boat without an oar or rudder. A.K. Tolstoy | | | | Man Fights the Ocean | | |  In the centuries-old chronicle of navigation, it is possible to find a great deal of evidence of the struggle of Man against the terrible chaos of the Ocean in literature, paintings and sculpture. These are the impassioned lines of telegraph messages and gripping descriptions of storms and hurricanes, epic paintings by artists and stone monuments to seamen who have perished in the Ocean. Humans have fought back against violent Ocean chaos by strengthening vessels, finding better and more reliable means of navigation and communication and increasing the power of engines.Text and images are from Man and the Ocean, a CD-ROM produced by the Russian Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography (HDNO). | | | | |
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| Ocean Supergyre Link to Climate Regulator
CSIRO Media Release 15 August 2007 |  |
| | Australian scientists have identified the missing deep ocean pathway, or supergyre, linking the three Southern Hemisphere ocean basins in research that will help them explain more accurately how the ocean governs global climate. More animations of ocean currents, in Windows Media Video. | |
Read more at http://www.csiro.au/news/OceanSupergyre.html.
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