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Deploy the drones

We are now all familiar with how the ROV, the remotely operated vehicle as it is called, is deployed under water. Attached to the mother vessel by its power and communications umbilical, it can survey the sea bed and effect...

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The Ram on the Rock

Like a Nordic port of old, the Faroese capital of Torshavn smells evocatively of salt and tar. As we disembark the ferry, the harbour waters lap beneath the modest parliament building with its turf roof and oxblood...

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Der Mond

I’ve been getting text messages from the moon. A note pops up on my phone asking if the moon can...

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Rain

One of the exciting things about Orkney is that it is truly oceanic. We are seventy islands in the...

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Frost

A sudden dip in temperature reminds us that, here in Orkney, we are closer to the Arctic than we...