I awoke to an unearthly din, like a rubber foot pump with hiccups. It was so loud that I could feel it resonating in my guts. In the glass of water by my bed, I swear I saw concentric ripples à la tha

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

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

WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

Far from the shore, out in the vast expanses of the open seas lives a group of unusual animals, collectively known as ‘neuston’. Their home is the giant, two-dimensional skin of the sea, which forms a

FIRE AND ICE A hike up the ...