Trim: Matthew Flinders's Ship Cat, Wreck Reef, and Vanishing on Mauritius
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Trim was born in 1799 aboard HMS Reliance on its voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay...
28 Sep 20min
Great Barrier Reef: Coral Spawning, Crown-of-Thorns, and Bleaching
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Great Barrier Reef stretches over 2,300 kilometers off northeast Australia and covers about ...
28 Sep 24min
Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki: A Balsa Raft Voyage Built on a Wrong Theory
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl believed Polynesia was settled not from Asia but by fair s...
28 Sep 23min
The Doldrums: How the ITCZ Stalls Sailors, Spawns Hurricanes, Shifts Rain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Coleridge's painted ship upon a painted ocean made the doldrums a byword for stagnation, but the...
28 Sep 24min
Orcas: Resident vs Transient Ecotypes, Grandmother Matriarchs, Moby Doll
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Basque sailors called them asesina ballenas, whale killers, and translation flipped the name to ...
28 Sep 22min
SS Californian: Captain Stanley Lord, Eight Rockets, and the Titanic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Built by Caledon in Dundee and completed in 1902, the Leyland Line cotton carrier SS Californian...
28 Sep 23min
RMS Carpathia: Rostron's Titanic Rescue Dash and a 1918 U-Boat Sinking
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!While rival lines chased the Blue Riband with overpowered liners, Cunard ordered the modest RMS ...
28 Sep 20min
Sea Otters: Densest Fur, Seawater Kidneys, and the Kelp Forest Keystone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The sea otter, Enhydra lutris, is the heaviest member of the weasel family and one of the smalle...
28 Sep 22min
