MARINE MYSTERIES

The first ever photographs of a ‘milky sea’ shed new light on an old phenomenon, plus weird tides in the British Isles

DISOBEDIENT TIDES On 18 June, anyone looking at the sea in Solva Harbour, Pembrokeshire, in Wales at about 8.50am would have noticed something unusual. While it was still about an hour until high tide, local resident Charles Davies, whose house overlooks the harbour noticed that “the water appeared to be running out of the harbour rather than in”. Davies, 69, said: “There was a gentle northeasterly wind, the trees were hardly moving, it was a lovely sunny day. We expect surges during storm conditions but we’ve never seen one during benign conditions. We saw water coming in at seven knots, going back out again and causing boats to lean quite dramatically. It was causing an area of swirling water, a back eddy around the little headland.” Nowhere else in Wales,…

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