Why are orcas ramming boats?

LONDON’S Hammersmith Hospital was the unlikely location that sparked Natalie Sanders’ passion for marine mammals. “I have a heart condition and spent a lot of time there as a child,” she says. “A tunn

Walruses live in the arctic and sub-Arctic. They are one of the largest pinnipeds (meaning fin-footed) and are related to seals and sealions. Their Latin name, Odobenus rosmarus, translates as ‘tooth-

Summer 1975 was a glorious time to be young on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. “We had the beaches to ourselves – nobody else wanted to go in the water, not even a lot of people who’d l

Long believed to be a symbol of good fortune, the albatross has its own annual world awareness day on 19th June. As legend would have it, the bird embodies the souls of sailors lost at sea, and to har

Crew training and a delivery trip provide an exhilarating start to the sailing season

Trevor Martin recalls a testing voyage that taught him almost all he needed to know for the next 20 years of sailing