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So it's that opportunity that NOC has to do something really important. That's why I'm on board.
Blue Machine (2023)
You ...need a skeleton to hang pieces of information on, and for most people ...you say the ocean, they've got literally nothing... It really is a void.
Blue Machine (2023)
I've looked at basic bubble physics, acoustics and optics... the dynamics of what bubbles do underneath waves, and particularly, sensing them in very difficult conditions like that big storm.
Blue Machine (2023)
And so this time NASA... the Artemis missions are... very much gearing up to go back to the moon.
Blue Machine (2023)
I learned to scuba dive at Scripps. I learned to sail in Rhode Island.
Blue Machine (2023)
It wasn't my first time at sea. It was my first time in waves that big.
Blue Machine (2023)
I think it's not an approach that many people have taken. I think oceanographers take those stories for granted. ...[W]e don't tell our own history...
Blue Machine (2023)
Alongside being a researcher for the past 10 or 12 years, I've also had the opportunity to make a lot of documentaries for the BBC. ...This is not my first book. I've written science columns for years, for Focus magazine and The Wall Street Journal...
Blue Machine (2023)
So... The Blue Machine is the story of the ocean told through its messengers, passengers and voyages... [I]t's a mixture of natural history... human culture and human history... It's... a physical oceanography textbook dressed up as a bunch of stories.
Blue Machine (2023)
The huge benefit... of being at NOC is that you've got all these people, it's such an interdisciplinary place. You've got all these people right next to each other that can learn from each other... I definitely miss that, not being in Southampton any more.
Blue Machine (2023)