Climate change interacts with the sources and cycling of contaminants, such as radionuclides, in the environment. In this review, we discuss the implications of climate change impacts on existing and potential future sources of radionuclides associated with human activities to the marine environment. T...
We were inspired to go after it.'Four decades before, HMS Edinburgh had just escorted a convoy from Scotland to Murmansk and Captain Hugh Faulkner was impatient to get the light battle cruiser back to sea when Rear Admiral Stuart Bonham Carter arrived on board with secret orders.Faulkner was ...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the final part of my rendition of the great naval tragedy in three acts involving the German Battleship Bismarck. The first part was the sinking of the legendary and graceful pride of the Royal Navy, the Battle Cruiser Hood. The second part was the...
On the twelfth of November 197 5, articles in the Swedish press appeared saying that the wreck of a Soviet target ship was found abandoned in Swedish territorial waters off of Gotlund. The Soviets apologized shortly thereafter and re-trieved the hulk -saying it had been used for target pract...
After the war, the wreck of the HMS Edinburgh was classified as a war grave, making salvage operations for the gold which sunk with her difficult. However ever anxious the British government pressed to recover the gold. Ostensibly not just because of the value but also because of unscrupulous...