Essays on Sea

“What if all the seafood in the world would be discarded one day?” One could easily feel the intensity of calamity behind this statement if one goes through the research conducted by WWF which states that being the largest traded food commodity in the world,…

A delta is described as the protruding structure that forms when the fluvial system progressively deposits it sediment into the sea as it losses it energy (Bhattacharya & Gıosan, 2003) . (Galloy, 1975) classified deltas into three types based on the dominant system deposition and…

There are numerous techniques for characterizing and monitoring marine habitat; especially coral reefs. These techniques can be grouped into three main types: physical surveys, off-water remote sensing surveys and on-water remote sensing surveys (Sabol et al., 2002). First, the physical surveys or in situ sampling…

Speed has always been an important factor in maritime operations. In times where the shipping market is in a depression, many maritime operations operate in ‘slow-steaming’ mode in which they have lower speeds, a positive side-effect of this is that it also lowers polluting emissions….