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(LONDON) — Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple Michael and Larissa Hoult were on their yacht en route to Fiji ...
Sea creatures around Australia are getting a free ride on a massive raft of pumice rock the size of Manhattan. It’s more than just a freaky, mysterious island, though. NASA satellite imagery shows ...
A computer model could help track rafts of floating rock in the ocean, perhaps giving scientists a way to warn ship captains to stay away. The rock in question is pumice, which forms from rapidly ...
MELBOURNE, Australia — The first thing the sailors noticed was the smell of sulfur. Then, Larissa Brill and Michael Hoult, a couple sailing in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, saw it: a floating mass ...
A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...
“The rubble slick went as far as we could see in the moonlight." London -- Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple ...
A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...