Essays on Sea

Have you ever been to the beach and seen trash laying there? Most people who see trash on the beach pick it up and throw it away. But, there are some people who see it and think “It’s just a little bit of trash, I’m…

Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial novel set in Jamaica following the Emancipation Act of 1838, when slavery was outlawed in the British Empire. The story follows the life of an ex-slaveholder’s daughter, Antoinette. Many important themes are brought up in Wide Sargasso…

The Old Man and The Sea’s Theme of Isolation Lonely is defined as without companions; solitary. Isolation and loneliness go hand in hand, as loneliness can be caused by isolation and isolation can be caused by loneliness. Isolation’s causes, reactions, and importance are intertwined with…

Haroun and the Sea of Stories: An Allegory for all Readers Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories tells a fictional tale of a young protagonist named Haroun who travels to the Sea of Stories to help his father gain back his skill of…

As we are all aware of the fact that all the water from the melting glaciers are getting into the sea and are causing a rise to the global sea levels, they could actually cause a major threat to all the coastal cities and islands….

The video mosaic method offered an efficient approach for the spatial analysis of cold water coral carbonate mounds and quantifying coral abundance. Having a downward facing camera to analyse the Piddington mounds is essential when studying the carbonate mounds to get an accurate representation of…

“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,…

Introduction Opisthobranchia, a specialized group of phylum Mollusca, is the third largest group in Gastropoda. There are more than 3,000 known species of nudibranchs (Holland, 2008) with their habitats ranging from intertidal areas to seabeds a mile deep. Most of the species are exclusively benthic…

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….