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"A self-confessed 'wanderer', Orsenna's voyage of discovery takes him from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina to the legendary Maelström off Norway, seeking out the beginnings of this powerful ocean current and the effect that global warming will have on its flow. Speaking to scholars and scientists and delving into thousands of years of history, Orsenna's study is a love letter to the seascape that fascinates him. Portrait of the Gulf Stream is a unique...
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This program asks how the Gulf Stream is being affected by global warming. Is it becoming weaker, and if so, to what effect? Following the path of the stream, we travel from Cuba to the Florida Keys, and all the way up to Newfoundland tracing the path of the stream and following the stories of the humans and animals whose livelihood depends on the current.
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"Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including sargassum mats concealing strange creatures and exotic seabeans, whales and sea turtles, sunfish and flying fish, and shearwaters and Bermuda petrels. During his long...
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The tale of the yachts Almeisan and At Ease. Caught in a vast storm off the East Coast in spring 2005, the two experienced sailors aboard Almeisan were washed overboard. The captain died, but his first mate survived, thanks to a Filipino merchant ship, and the Almeisan's three working passengers fast-learned enough seamanship to last until the Coast Guard arrived. The crew of At Ease all survived, but their ordeal was only slightly less harrowing,...
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