Residents living on a crumbling cliff edge in a Yorkshire resort say snow has caused more landslides – it is thought up to four metres has fallen away in the last month. Three homes in Scarborough have already been demolished and now there are concerns more will follow, particularly with more snow forecast
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Consumer waste from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is turning a Hawaiian beach “into plastic”, Tropic of Cancer presenter Simon Reeve has found. Conservationist Sam Gon escorted him to the remote Kamilo Beach, where plastic bottles, bags, tyres, rusting petrol cans, and other waste from around the world washes up. They found more plastic particles than sand, as they dug a hole on what has been described as “the world’s dirtiest beach”.
A huge ocean wave has been filmed from beneath the surface, revealing features never before captured on camera. The remarkable video, which will be shown as part of the BBC Natural History Unit’s new series South Pacific, was filmed in super slow motion using a high-definition camera. It reveals the hidden power of a four-metre-tall monster barrel wave. It also shows the first images of underwater spiralling vortices created by the wave’s action. The wave was filmed off the coast of Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands, part of the Federated State of Micronesia. The location is well known in the international surf community. Some of the biggest waves in the world break on South Pacific islands. The storm swells that create these waves travel more than 5,000km to break on their shorelines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8035000/8035593.stm
The £20,000 clifftop bungalow with stunning sea views now valued at just £1
Published April 7, 2009 COASTS Leave a Comment
It is a pleasant three-bedroom bungalow in a secluded setting with spectacular views over the North Sea. In 1987, Jane Archer and her partner Chris Cutting paid £20,000 for the property. Today, it is worth rather less… £19,999 less, to be precise. The reason for the dramatic depreciation is simple. Twenty years ago the house was about 500 yards from the sea. Now it is only 65 yards from the 80ft high cliffs at Happisburgh, Norfolk.
Nineteenth Century artwork is a useful tool for studying coastal erosion, according to a retired coastal engineer.
Robin McInnes assessed the accuracy of geological and topological features in more than 400 paintings of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire coastline.
Dr McInnes said such old masters gave engineers the chance to see coastal features before they were changed by industrial development.
Police in Jamaica are investigating the suspected theft of hundreds of tons of sand from a beach on the island’s north coast. It was discovered in July that 500 truck-loads had been removed outside a planned resort at Coral Spring beach. Detectives say people in the tourism sector could be suspects, because a good beach is seen as a valuable asset to hotels on the Caribbean island.
Artificial reef: Surfers wait to catch Dorset’s £3m wave
Published August 28, 2008 COASTS Leave a Comment
You’ll change into your wetsuit in the world’s grooviest beach hut, designed by Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemingway, tuck your surfboard under your arm, trot down to the sea and paddle out like mad. Then, as long as the oceanographers did their calculations correctly, your board will be whizzed back to shore on steep waves tidied up and amplified by the first artificial surf reef to be built in Europe.
It would be pushing it to suggest that the atmosphere in the Dorset resort of Bournemouth was febrile but there was certainly some excitement yesterday as work on installing the reef began in earnest. In the coming months the reef, the size of a football pitch and made of dozens of huge specially-designed bags pumped full of sand, will take shape on the sandy seabed starting at 210 metres off the beach at Boscombe. Surfers are due to start catching the first artificially boosted waves by the end of October.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/17/conservation.wildlife
Is the tide starting to turn for our classic seaside resorts?
Published July 18, 2008 COASTS Leave a Comment
This summer, the traditional resorts of England’s north-west are swapping chips and bingo for whirlpool baths and wi-fi. But will it work?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/may/25/beach.familyholidays
Artificial reef: Surfers wait to catch Dorset’s £3m wave
Published July 18, 2008 COASTS Leave a Comment
Regeneration project sees work start on artificial reef 210m off Bournemouth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/17/conservation.wildlife
Players at England’s oldest golf course told to let it crumble into the sea
Published May 21, 2008 COASTS Leave a Comment
