ocean

Travelogs 6/2011 takes us to English-speaking Belize in Central America.

The ocean near Santa Cruz, California, offers some fantastic surfing, especially for experienced surfers. These men are carrying longboards; with their extra length and a rounded nose, these are designed more to be stable and to float well than to be manoeuvrable.

Travelogs 5/2011 takes us to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Inez Sharp shares her photos of this colourful city in southern Florida, where Cuba and America meet. You can almost hear the waves on the beach and the salsa music playing in the background!

Each year, between 70 and 100 people around the world are attacked by sharks. But what sharks cannot see well, they are less likely to attack. Researchers in Australia say they have made a simple discovery that will help surfers and divers.

Porpoises swim in front of a boat near the Farallon Islands, not far from San Francisco. Although they are able to dive as deep as 200 metres, they generally hunt in shallow coastal waters.

On the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, researchers found a pocketknife, bottles made in New Jersey and part of a mirror from a woman's make-up kit. The group also found three small bones, which it says may have been Earhart's.

The Atlantic bluefin tuna is one of the largest, fastest, and most beautifully coloured of all the world's fishes. Their bodies are built for speed, and their huge appetite pushes their average size to a whopping 250 kilograms or more.

In the late 1400s, Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to sail round the southern tip of Africa. This is the legendary "Cape of Storms", which wrecked many ships en route to the east in search of gold, spices and other wonderful things.