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Ocean Alexander 32E Reviewed

• By Chris Caswell
• December 15, 2023

When I arrived at the marina, I asked the dock master where the Ocean Alexander 32E was moored. He grinned and said, “Oh, you’ll see it.”

He was right. The 32E didn’t so much float as tower head and shoulders over most other boats in the marina. Think Arnold Schwarzenegger at a debutante ball, or Kilimanjaro above the plains of the Serengeti. This is a yacht for grand adventures on the seven seas.

The 32E’s profile is forward-loaded, tapering aft from a tall plumb bow. It’s clear that the two decks aft, off the bridge and salon, are designed for alfresco living, with a beach club at the transom. The swim platform is full-on watersports, with a 2,500-pound crane to handle tenders from about 16 to 18 feet long, as well as personal watercraft. There’s also room here for toys and dive gear. Both hull sides butterfly out to expand the yacht’s beam from just under 22 feet to 27 feet. The air-conditioned beach club provides a lounge for guests to watch the action in comfort.

On the main deck, the salon has defined zones for entertaining, including leather U-shaped Poltrona Frau couches from Turin and a formal dining area for 10 guests, with electric sliding doors on each side for fresh air.

The enclosed galley is pure gourmet, arranged around an island that allows two chefs to prep, cook and plate without crowding. Equipment includes a 30-inch, five-burner Wolf cooktop and a Fisher Paykel fridge, and there are Berwyn quartz counters.

A companionway leads to the owner’s main-deck stateroom. It spans the yacht’s beam (no walkaround side decks) with a king berth and two walk-in closets. The head has a free-standing hot tub, a heated stone sole and twin vanities. The lower deck has four en suite staterooms for guests. The VIP is forward with a queen berth and a love seat. Two mirrored staterooms are abaft the foyer with queen berths, and there’s a guest stateroom to port with twins.

Ocean Alexander has a long-standing mantra that “happy crews make happy owners,” which is why the 32E has a crew space abaft the engine room. Access is safe in all weather scenarios with 24-inch-wide side decks. There is an en suite captain’s cabin and a high-low bunk stateroom with a head for crew. The mess has a kitchenette with a sink, a microwave and a fridge, and a washer and dryer are provided for the crew.

What Ocean Alexander calls the bridge deck, I see as a sky lounge with an outdoor component. It stretches full beam from the four-person hot tub (wrapped by a sun pad) aft to the forward helm. Along the way is a Poltrona Frau sofa facing a full bar to starboard with four swivel stools and sole-to-ceiling windows. A day head is convenient to the deck and the sky lounge.

The helm, as expected from a builder with a long history of producing oceangoing yachts, has a trio of 24-inch Garmin touchscreen multifunction displays for navionics as well as a closed-circuit camera feed from the engine room and on deck. A Garmin remote is built into the armrest of the skipper’s pedestal seat. Two husky pantograph doors lead to the single-level foredeck, with a forward-facing dinette/lounge and a convertible sun pad that faces fore or aft.

Standard power for the 32E is twin 2,000 hp MAN V-12 diesels, and they live in an impressive engine room. The engines are separated by a diamond-plate walkway with safety rails, and there is access to all sides. Outboard are a pair of 40 kW Kohler gensets with equally good access. The 32E sets a benchmark for color-coded, secured piping and electrical runs. Delta-T intake and exhaust fans have vents in the cabin sides, rather than the hull, because Ocean Alexander expects the 32E to shoulder through big seas. The engine beds are welded stainless steel surrounding large structural stringers. There’s a smart lube-oil-change system for the mains and the gensets, and a Gulf Coast fuel-polishing system should ensure clean food for the diesels in faraway ports.

This 32E is also outfitted with Side-Power Vector zero-speed stabilizers, a 53 hp bow thruster and a 42 hp stern thruster. The Dometic air conditioning is rated for extreme tropical climates, with heating designed down to 40-degree water temps. The 50 hz Atlas Marine Power Converter allows automatic marina connections anywhere in the world, and the aerospace-designed Octoplex provides sensors and controls for the ship’s systems and lighting.

Underway, the Ocean Alexander 32E is going to cause immediate cravings for anyone who has dreamed of anchoring off the volcanic peaks of Moorea or nudging a glacier to get thousand-year-old ice for a gin and tonic. This yacht exuded power and strength from the moment the bow touched the Gulf Stream, and I found myself glancing at the fuel gauge to consider how far the 3,600-gallon capacity might take us. On the pins, the 32E topped out at 21 knots, in case owners need to outrun a squall. That’s impressive speed for a yacht with a 274,233-pound displacement. Dropping back to 800 rpm and 7.1 knots (the MANs will last forever), the yacht has a 2,430-nautical-mile range. That’s about the distance from New York to Panama or Los Angeles to Honolulu.

The stabilizers held the yacht rock-steady in the lumpy Gulf Stream, and departing from and returning to the marina was fingertip easy with the thrusters. The 32E that I got aboard also had optional engine controls on each after corner for even easier docking.

Creating such a solid ride starts with the 32E being built tough. It has an infused-fiberglass hull and closed-cell structural foam with unidirectional carbon-fiber reinforcement on stress areas, such as stringers. There is a reinforced collision bulkhead forward, and watertight bulkheads are forward of and abaft the engine room.

Owners of this yacht could throw a dart at a world map to choose their next waypoint. The Ocean Alexander 32E is ready to go.

Meet the Designer

Yacht designer Evan K. Marshall says he grew up with a stack of Yachting magazines in his closet and doodled boats on his notebooks in school. Marshall introduced the split-level owner’s stateroom to yachts. From his office on the River Thames in England, he produces innovative designs for builders from Ocean Alexander to Hatteras Yachts and more.

Robust Reinforcement

Ocean Alexander reinforces the 32E’s hull and deck with straight aircraft-grade aluminum beams that are reportedly 10 times stiffer than wood or fiberglass, but that help keep the yacht’s overall weight low for safety and seaworthiness.

The 2,000 hp MAN diesels on the Ocean Alexander 32E are Tier 3 compliant for Environmental Protection Agency emissions standards, and they have a MAN gold-standard warranty for 60 months. A V-12 designed for luxury yachts, this four-stroke engine has strong torque to 2,100 rpm and displaces 24.2 liters (1,476 cubic inches).

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Obviously, this is a wide range of boat types and which will be your personal best choice depends on how you plan to use your boat. If you enjoy saltwater fishing and you dream about hunting down huge pelagic trophy fish, this list of choices shrinks to include center consoles, sportfishing yachts, and walkarounds. But if you just want to go on dolphin- or whale-watching cruises or head down the coast to a new destination, one of the other types of boats will probably be a better pick.

In all of these cases, however, one thing’s for sure: you want to feel safe and confident in your boat’s abilities. To that end, there are some specific attributes any vessel needs if you plan to use it for ocean boating.

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Must-Haves for Boating on the Ocean

First and foremost, any boat that goes through an inlet and into the ocean must be large enough and seaworthy enough to safely handle the conditions .

Just exactly what this means is a judgement call, because boating in the ocean can vary dramatically depending on the location and the weather. Wind speed, sea state, and the potential for storms (see Boat Handling: Riders on the Storm , to make sure you know what to do if you get caught in a sudden squall) all play a role in determining whether or not any boat can safely venture out into the ocean on any given day. That’s why checking the latest weather forecasts and paying close attention to changing conditions is absolutely critical. So, how can one say which are the best boats for ocean boating, in this regard? You simply can’t—the correct answers change from day to day and place to place.

Being properly equipped with safety, communications, and navigational gear is another necessity.

You can check out Boat Safety Checklist & Safety Equipment to see the must-haves as well as recommended safety gear, but in addition, most experienced captains would agree that a VHF radio should be on each and every boat entering the ocean. Naturally you also need to have a full understanding of how to use it; see How to Use a VHF Radio , to get the scoop. And remember that when you’re in the ocean, losing sight of land is almost always a possibility be it due to distance, haze, or fog. In any case you’ll need to be able to find your way back to that inlet, so GPS should also be considered a must-have. In fact, it’s critical for anyone captaining a boat in the ocean to have a firm grasp on how to navigate a boat with and without the assistance of electronics.

Another critical factor for boats used in the ocean is that they’re designed and built with corrosion-resistant hardware.

Most of the boat types we’ve listed above will have stainless-steel fittings and fasteners, but if you take a boat that was intended for freshwater use and put it in the ocean, you’ll likely have corrosion streaks and deteriorating hardware starting on day one. In just a season or two, serious damage can occur.

Fuel economy and fuel capacity also become important issues to consider when ocean boating.

Remember, the ocean is essentially limitless when you’re on a boat, and while a boat may be perfectly competent to take offshore, some will burn a lot more fuel than others doing so. There are many high-performance boats, for example, that are designed for offshore racing, can handle heavy seas, and are equipped to navigate beyond sight of land. But those big engines need to be fed lots of fuel, and this can mean range restrictions. If the captain miscalculates his or her range, running out of fuel is a much bigger problem than it would be ashore. On the flip side of the equation, some sailboats can travel for literally thousands of miles while requiring little to no fuel. When calculating range for your own boat, most experts advise accounting for a bare minimum of 10-percent of fuel capacity in reserve, and some suggest it’s safest to plan in as much as one-third in reserve.

What are the Best Boats for Ocean Boating?

As is usually the case when it comes to boating in general, the answer to the above question will be different from one person to the next. But we can say one thing for sure: if you have a boat that’s appropriately sized, designed, built, and equipped for ocean boating, you should consider giving it a try. Because the experience of fishing, cruising, or just observing nature outside of the inlet is an amazing adventure that many people in this world never get to enjoy—and that’s one more reason why the boating life is indeed a better life.

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Boat Test: 2023 Ocean Sport Roamer 30

• By Capt. John Page Williams
• March 17, 2023

Unfortunately, our sea trial of the Ocean Sport Roamer 30 on the Chesapeake did not challenge the Roamer 30. Soft landings in a couple of large boat wakes hinted at how smoothly its sharp bow and 20-degree transom deadrise would come down in gnarlier stuff. The boat did maneuver well as I simulated careful jigging maneuvers in current eddies around large bridge pilings and over oyster reefs.

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The Roamer 30’s large cockpit lends itself to all kinds of fishing. The transom holds a 30-gallon bait tank, with raw- and freshwater washdown bibs and a stout door to the broad transom platform and engine bracket. Padded bolsters line the pit at thigh height, with fiberglass toe rails below that also function as shelves for gear such as boat hooks. I admired the three-tray foldout tackle box and the eight-rod rocket launcher on the aft edge of the cabin top.

I noted cavernous storage lockers with drop-in bins, plus two 12-volt AGM cranking batteries and four 6-volt deep-cycle batteries. A step on each side of the cockpit leads to an 8-inch-wide side deck, with sturdy handrails for the climb and along the cabin top all the way to the foredeck. There’s plenty of space on top for brackets to secure kayaks and paddleboards. The foredeck holds an anchor bracket, windlass, and a locker for plenty of anchor rode.

As to cruising accommodations, the Roamer 30 provides a generous V-berth, with storage under the forward cabin, reading lights, a cedar-lined hanging locker to port, and an enclosed head with a shower to starboard. Cabinetwork is right up to the high Nordic Tug standard. Headroom taped at 6 feet, 2 inches in the cabin and 6 feet in the head. The pilothouse/salon is bright, with even more headroom and another sturdy handrail, this one running overhead the full length of the space. The helm to starboard includes a shock-absorbing chair made for long hours. It’s easy to see how the Ocean Sport Roamer 30 fits Pacific Northwest fishing and cruising missions, but also easy to see how well it would fit on any other cruising ground on the continent.

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• Drive/Props: Outboard/14 1 / 2 ” x 17″ Enertia 3-blade stainless steel
• Gear Ratio: 1.75:1 Fuel Load: 400 gal. Crew Weight: 660 lb.

High Points

• Sturdy grab rails in the right places on the deck and in the salon allow safe movement in sloppy conditions.
• Rugged construction and mechanic-designed systems ensure a long working life for the Roamer 30.
• Interior cabinetwork and amenities reflect experience with cruising boats. 
• Bottom of the steering wheel obstructs the skipper’s view of the critical bottom line on the sonar.
• No provision for lockable fishing-rod storage; stock boat offers only eight holders along the aft edge of the pilothouse.

Toughest Competitor

Sea Sport’s 30′ x 10′  Voyager 3000 ($400,000 base with twin Suzuki 300s) is another 12,500-pound pilothouse fisher-cruiser from the PNW. It shows comparable performance with twin Suzuki 300 outboards, offers a similar cruising accommodation plan, and provides a large cockpit for fishing.

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One of the newest boats to come onto the scene are Ocean Sport Boats from Burlington, Washington. The brainchild of Ron Ming of Islands Marine Center on Lopez Island, the line of fiberglass boats was a natural addition to a company focused on supporting the San Juan cruising community as well as the hundreds of fishermen who enjoy the majestic fishing grounds of the Pacific Northwest. Ocean Sport boats have come to represent a true crossover between serious fishing boats and those well suited for cruising.

Ocean Sport boats are built by the capable and talented crew at Nordic Tugs in Burlington. Using the refined construction and outfitting expertise honed from years of perfecting the immensely popular tug yachts, the company now adds its unique and particular flair to the Ocean Sport line.

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The Ocean Sport 30 Roamer may be the perfect boat, as it can be configured to perform many different roles, and propulsion options cover a range of performance requirements. The boat can be built with inboard Volvo diesel engines with stern drives, or outboard power offered with single or dual outboard engines. The performance of the boats can fit the boating needs of the slower, efficient cruiser or full-throttle fishermen seeking to run at speed out to and back from the fishing grounds.

The 30 Roamer has a displacement of 12,500lbs, has a 10’9” beam, and can be ordered with optional levels of finish from Nordic Tugs craftsmen, for a comfortable, stylish, and beautiful interior to fit any cruising plans. Corian counters, elegant engineered wood flooring and yacht quality hardwood cabinetry, are among the many the touches that set Nordic Tugs apart from the sea of white fiberglass.

The open and utilitarian cockpit is wide and roomy for all fishing, crabbing, and other activities, with plenty of space for pots and fishing gear. On outboard-powered boats, the cockpit sole transforms into four large opening hatches that provide enormous storage spaces.

(Below: YouTuber Alfred Montaner reviews the Ocean Sport at the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show.)

The best way to understand the Ocean Sport line is to think of the boats as the Pacific Northwest interpretation of the classic Maine lobster boats. For generations, lobster boats have been characterized by their ability to handle loads of lobster pots on deck, run at high speeds out to the fishing grounds, work the area at slow speed, and run full speed safely back to port in all conditions. They epitomize seaworthy, nautical, and no nonsense.

So do the Ocean Sport boats readily fit the needs of fishing and other watermen looking to work crab and lobster pots, fish local waters, or run out to the best grounds to catch the big ones. They are also ideal for settling back and enjoying the slower pace of comfortable cruising, low maintenance, easy living, with all-weather seaworthiness. With sleeping accommodations in three separate areas, the weekend or casual cruise ability of the Roamer is every bit as fitting as the many Downeast lookalikes of recent years. But the Ocean Sport is more modern in many ways and looks straight out of the rugged Pacific Northwest where boaters shares their world with bear, eagles, and orcas.

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Ocean Sport boats can be appreciated for their ease of use, low maintenance, enormous storage, and not a stitch of exterior brightwork. The raked windows of the forward pilothouse and the simple and clean lines of the Ocean Sport profile point to a robust and competent sea boat, equally at home at anchor with the family for the weekend. And the Ocean Sport runs well at 30+ knots or cruising along at 8 knots.

The boats can be built with every amenity, from Zipwake trim tabs, air conditioning, diesel heat, joystick controls, gyrostabilizer, yacht interiors, numerous propulsion systems, and all the controls and systems necessary to get away from the masses and explore in safety and style.

If the simplicity and elegance of the lobster boat heritage is appealing, but one that is also tempered from generations of Northwest boating, fishing, and cruising, check out the Ocean Sport at your nearest Seattle Yachts dealer .

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The findings, from the largely uncharted waters of Bounty Trough, show that “we’ve got a long way to go in terms of understanding where life is found in the ocean,” a researcher said.

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A team of 21 scientists set off on an expedition in the largely uncharted waters of Bounty Trough off the coast of the South Island of New Zealand in February hoping to find a trove of new species.

The expedition paid off, they said on Sunday, with the discovery of 100 new species, a number that was likely to grow, said Alex Rogers, a marine biologist who was a leader of the expedition.

“I expect that number to increase as we work through more and more of the samples,” Dr. Rogers said. “I think that number is going to be in the hundreds instead of just 100.”

Dozens of mollusks, three fish, a shrimp and a cephalopod that is a type of predatory mollusk were among the new species found in the expedition, which was led by Ocean Census, a nonprofit dedicated to the global discovery of ocean life, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

One creature that caused a “lot of head-scratching” is a star-shaped animal, about a centimeter across, but researchers have not managed to identify it, Dr. Rogers said. They believe it may possibly be a coral.

Two million-plus species are estimated to live in the oceans, but only 10 percent of ocean life is known. It is vital to learn more about the aquatic life because marine ecosystems carry out functions that support life on Earth, such as creating food for billions, storing carbon and regulating climate, Dr. Rogers said.

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Ocean Census was founded last year by the Nippon Foundation, a Japanese philanthropic organization, and the U.K.-based ocean exploration foundation Nekton. When it began its work, Ocean Census set a goal of finding at least 100,000 new marine species in a decade.

The group is focused on exploring some of the most under-sampled bodies of water.

In the February expedition, researchers first mapped the area with an imaging system and video cameras to check that it would be safe for their equipment and to ensure that there were no vulnerable animal communities that potentially could be harmed.

Then, they deployed what is known as the Brenke sled , a sampling device that has two nets, one close to the seabed, and the other a meter above it. As it drags along the floor, it churns up animals living close to the sea floor. To find larger animals, the researchers used other methods, such as baited nets.

Trawling the depths at 4,800 meters — or roughly the equivalent to Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps — researchers collected 1,791 samples.

Given its depth, Bounty Trough is not of great interest to fisheries and therefore is poorly sampled, Dr. Rogers said. Geologists have surveyed this area but biologists have not.

Worldwide, about 240,000 marine species have been discovered and named to date but only 2,200 species are discovered each year on average, according to Ocean Census.

In many bodies of water there is still a lot that scientists have to learn, Dr. Rogers said.

“It’s probably the equivalent of a space mission,” he said. “We’re still in early days, but the number of species that we found in the Bounty Trough really indicates to us that we’ve got a long way to go in terms of understanding where life is found in the ocean.”

Rebecca Carballo is a reporter based in New York. More about Rebecca Carballo

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A selection of quirky, intriguing and surprising discoveries about animal life..

Aside from chimps and humans,  researchers have found clear evidence of menopause in only five species — all of them whales. A new study looks at the possible causes for it .

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According to a common narrative that male mammals tend to be larger than female ones. A new study paints a more complex picture .

Daddy longlegs, the group of splendidly leggy arachnids also known as harvestmen, have been thought to have just two eyes. New research has uncovered four more vestigial ones .

The means by which some whales sing underwater has long been a mystery. A contraption that forced air through the larynxes of three carcasses puts forth an explanation .

Here’s how a male elephant seal, not usually possessed with a paternal instinct, prevented a younger animal from drowning in an unlikely act of altruism .

12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned

Every day for the last 12 months, the world’s sea surface temperatures have broken records.

Ocean scientists are growing increasingly concerned. 

“It’s not just an entire year of record-breaking ocean temperatures, but it’s the margin it’s breaking them by — it’s not even close to what the previous record was,” said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. “That’s what’s raising the eyebrows of a lot of people.”  

Average sea surface temperatures today are roughly 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they were from 1982-2011, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer . It’s a huge anomaly that could have significant effects on weather and ecosystems. 

Human-caused climate change is likely playing a role, researchers said, but is probably not the only factor. Climate models predict a steady rise in sea surface temperatures, but not this quickly, and ocean surface temperatures also fluctuate and can be affected by natural climate variability, including patterns such as El Niño and La Niña.  

So scientists don’t yet know precisely why sea surface temperatures have climbed so high. 

“I pray we’re having a once-in-a-lifetime year of hot sea surface temperatures, but I do fear there may be something else going on that is causing a long-term change in sea surface temperatures we hadn’t predicted,” said John Abraham, a professor at the University of St. Thomas who studies ocean temperatures. “All bets are off now, this is something that is so unusual, it’s challenging our past expectations.” 

If ocean temperatures continue to break records, that could bleach corals, generate more intense and fast-developing hurricanes, drive coastal temperatures up and make extreme precipitation more likely — events scientists already observed in 2023.

Temperatures first soared to record levels in mid-March last year, according to the Climate Reanalyzer, which tracks average measures of sea surface temperature data from across the globe. The data used to measure these trends dates back more than 40 years and comes from networks of monitoring buoys and robotic devices designed to help meteorologists make weather forecasts.

Abraham suspects the main cause of the trend is climate change, with some natural ocean processes that aren’t well understood playing a role, as well.

Average air temperatures are roughly 1.8 F higher today than they were from 1979-2000, but water has a greater capacity to absorb and store heat — the ocean has absorbed about 90% of the heat created by global warming. So, seas were not expected to warm this much already.

“It takes a lot of heat to raise water’s temperature,” Abraham said. 

He and McNoldy both acknowledged, however, that it’s possible that an ocean system has crossed a critical threshold because of global warming. 

Last year, some scientists also pointed to El Niño, a natural pattern that involves warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, as a factor driving average sea surface temperatures up.

But now El Niño is dissipating, so they suspect something else is at play. 

“What we see now driving high temperatures is something in addition to El Niño and can’t be explained by the arguments being given six months ago or 12 months ago,” Abraham said. “Sea surface temperatures are higher elsewhere and very far from El Niño locations.”

McNoldy listed other dynamics that may play a small role, including the weakening of trade winds in the North Atlantic, which has reduced the amount of dust blowing from Africa’s Sahara Desert  toward North America. Dust absorbs the sun’s energy over the Atlantic Ocean, so it’s possible that more radiation is being absorbed into the ocean. 

“That could be a factor, but I don’t have a good sense of being able to quantify it,” McNoldy said. 

Some researchers have also suggested that changes to maritime shipping regulations may have reduced sulfur pollution in ship exhaust, ultimately reducing cloud cover and allowing the oceans to absorb more energy. 

“All these little ingredients by themselves don’t explain what we’re seeing, but maybe in a combined sense, they do,” McNoldy said, though he added that he’s skeptical of the theory but can’t rule it out.

Whatever the reason, higher sea surface temperatures can pose dire threats. Warmer water provides more energy for storms to feed on, so “the ones that form often become stronger,” Abraham said.

Warmer waters also increase the risk of rapid intensification — when hurricane winds intensify suddenly as they near the shore. Last year, Hurricane Idalia went from a Category 1 to a Category 4 in 24 hours . 

Some of the largest sea surface temperature anomalies are in the Atlantic and off the west coast of Africa, where the hurricanes that rattle the East Coast of the United States often start. What’s more, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center says that there is a 62% chance of a La Niña —  which is associated with active and damaging hurricane seasons —  developing in late spring. 

”Not ideal for a calm hurricane season,” McNoldy said, noting that the extra ocean warmth could also lengthen the season. 

High sea surface temperatures can contribute to more intense coastal rainstorms, as well, Abraham said, by helping to build a more moist and hot atmosphere. 

McNoldy said he’s also concerned about corals, which took a beating last year. 

Warm waters caused some of the worst bleaching events ever observed in Florida and the Caribbean Sea , with stressed corals turning white and expelling the photosynthetic algae that lives in their tissue. 

“If the anomalies we’re seeing now are in place during the hot months, the oceans will be warmer than 2023 and we’ll see even worse coral bleaching events,” McNoldy said. 

Among ocean scientists, he added: “We’re kind of all just observing something strange happening. At some point, someone will come up with an answer, but I haven’t seen that answer yet.” 

Evan Bush is a science reporter for NBC News. He can be reached at [email protected].

Planned Outage for Some Cornell Lab Services

Several Cornell Lab of Ornithology services will be unavailable beginning March 19 through 6:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time on March 21 . This is a one-time disruption while we migrate more than 1.6 billion eBird observations and additional project data to new servers. After the move, our websites will have improved reliability, stability, and room to grow. Thank you for your understanding during this outage.

Don’t worry, your data (checklists, media, Bird Academy courses, Merlin life list, etc.) will be safe during the migration and will be unaffected when we come back online.

Unavailable: The following websites and services will be down during this period:

• eBird.org , including eBird portals, eBird Alerts, the eBird API, eBird Science, and data downloads
• Macaulay Library
• Birds of the World

Partially affected: Several Cornell Lab projects will remain up but services that require a login will be unavailable:

• Bird Academy login and store will be unavailable. Users will be able to access most course materials if they were logged in to the site before the outage. Snap ID quizzes will not function during the outage.
• NestWatch and Project FeederWatch login and data entry will be unavailable both on the website and the app. Please record your data on paper and enter it after the outage ends.
• eBird Mobile app : The Explore and My eBird functions will not work during the outage. You can use the app to create checklists and then submit them after the outage ends. Your eBird data will be safe.
• Merlin Bird ID app : Sound ID will continue to work, as well as Photo ID, Step-by-Step, and Explore, using your recent locations only. You will not be able to save sightings, refresh your life list, update your location, or log in to your account. These functions will return when the outage ends and your data will be safe.

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• Cornell Lab of Ornithology institutional website
• All About Birds
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The World Meteorological Organization's State of the Global Climate report confirms 2023 broke every single climate indicator

There's an ominous new significance to the phrase 'off the charts', according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with 2023 breaking every single climate indicator.

The UN agency's annual State of the Global Climate report confirmed it wasn't just the hottest year on record, ocean heat reached its highest level since records began, global mean sea level also reached a record high and Antarctic sea ice reached a record low.

The impacts of extreme weather and climate events up-ended life for millions of people across the world and inflicted billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the WMO. 

"Extreme climate conditions exacerbated humanitarian crises, with millions experiencing acute food insecurity and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes," WMO Secretary General Professor Celeste Saulo said. 

"Heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and intense tropical cyclones wreaked havoc on every continent and caused huge socio-economic losses." 

Ocean heat reached its highest level in the 65 years it's been recorded, with the WMO's analysis showing a strong increase in the past two decades.

The report found on an average day in 2023, nearly one third of the global ocean was gripped by a marine heatwave, harming vital ecosystems and food systems.

Towards the end of 2023, over 90 per cent of the ocean had experienced heatwave conditions at some point during the year.

That heating is expected to continue, with the report stating it could be 'irreversible on scales of hundreds to thousands of years'. 

Oceans rising

Increased temperatures are not just impacting the warmth of the ocean, there are other flow on effects, including sea level rise.

"The ocean, which covers around 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface, absorbs heat and CO2, which can act to slow the rate of warming in the atmosphere," the report explained. 

"However, the heat absorbed by the ocean leads to ocean warming which, together with the melting of ice on land, raises sea levels.

"The ocean also absorbs CO2 leading to ocean acidification."

The report found, global mean sea level reached a record high, with the rate of sea level rise in the past 10 years more than doubling since the first decade of the satellite record (1993–2002).

Ice retreats

Glaciers in North America and the European Alps suffered massive losses after experiencing an extreme melt season, according to the WMO.

In Switzerland, glaciers lost around 10 per cent of their remaining volume in the last two years. 

It also found the global set of reference glaciers for the hydrological year 2022-2023 experienced the largest loss of ice on record from 1950-2023.

Sea ice saw similar retreats, with Arctic sea ice extent well below normal and Antarctic sea ice at an absolute record low. 

"(Antarctic) Ice extent was at a record low for the time of year from June till early November, and the annual maximum in September was around 1 million km2 below the previous record low maximum," the report said.

Greenhouse gases

Concentrations of the three main greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached record high observed levels.

"The long-term increase in global temperature is due to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," the report stated. 

The shift from La Niña to El Niño explains some of the rise of temperatures in 2023, but other factors, which are still being investigated, may also have contributed to the exceptional warming. 

Glimmers of hope

Despite the dire state of the climate, the WMO said there was a glimmer of hope, with the rapid expansion of renewable energy generation leading efforts to decarbonise.

It found added renewable capacity increased by 50 per cent compared to 2022, the highest rate observed in the past two decades.

WMO Secretary General Professor Celeste Saulo said she hoped the report will help to scale up the urgency and ambition of climate action and called for more resources for climate data and monitoring.

"Climate action is currently being hampered by a lack of capacity to deliver and use climate services to inform national mitigation and adaptation plans, especially in developing countries," she said.

"We need to increase support for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to be able to provide information services to ensure the next generation of Nationally Determined Contributions are based on science."

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There are large accumulations of plastics in the ocean, even outside so-called garbage patch

"Plastics in the ocean are a serious problem. Every year, millions of tonnes of plastics end up in the ocean via rivers and wind as well as from shipping and fishing -- and it remains there. It is still difficult to assess the consequences for the ocean ecosystem," says UFZ environmental chemist Prof Annika Jahnke, coordinator of the MICRO-FATE project, which made the study possible. What is the distribution of plastics in the oceans? Which areas are particularly affected? Are there any plastic-free zones? And what properties do plastics have close to the source or far away in the open ocean?

Jahnke and her research team have investigated these questions. During a five-week expedition on the German research vessel "Sonne" in 2019, the researchers took samples of the surface water in the North Pacific Ocean between Vancouver (Canada) and Singapore. The team selected the sampling stations along the cruise track based on a prediction model from the University of Hawaii (Surface CUrrents from a Diagnostic model (SCUD)). This model calculates how much plastics are likely to be present in a particular marine area. "We selected stations with predicted high and low plastic loads for our investigations," says Jahnke. "Some stations were located in areas that had already been well researched such as the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We also wanted to investigate zones in the open ocean that had hardly been explored. For example, we took samples in a marine reserve northwest of Hawaii, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument "

The team used two different methods to determine the amount of plastics in the surface water. The first one was a litter survey in which teams of two scientists on the deck of the "Sonne" counted plastic items that were visible to the naked eye during ship transits and documented their shape and size. The second one involved neuston nets towed at the surface to take samples at nine stations. "The mesh size was 0.3 millimetres. This allowed us to collect not only larger items, but also small plastic particles to determine the amount of microplastics, which are less than five millimetres in diameter," says UFZ researcher Robby Rynek, lead author of the study. "The plastic particles from each sample were sorted by size and counted. We then used a special form of infrared spectroscopy to chemically analyse the particles and estimate their weathering state based on their appearance."

The longer plastics are exposed to sun, wind, waves, and sea water, the more they weather and disintegrate. Other studies have shown that larger non-degraded plastic items and particles occur primarily where plastic enters the sea. The further the particles are transported, the more weathered and smaller they should be. "This is exactly what we showed with our investigations. And as expected, we found the highest quantities of plastics in the samples we took in the area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," says Rynek. "However, the items do not in any way form a carpet of plastic that covers an entire surface in a dense manner. This is important when thinking about plastic removal technologies, which would have to cover vast areas in order to be able to collect significant amounts of plastic. Most plastics are small fragments that escape nets or which can only be collected with considerable animal 'by-catch'," says co-author Dr Melanie Bergmann from the AWI. It is therefore essential to reduce the emissions of plastics.

"The most surprising and at the same time most worrying result of our study is that we found equally large quantities of particularly small microplastics in the remote marine protected area north-west of Hawaii. We hadn't expected that. According to the calculations of the forecast model, there should be considerably less plastics in this area," says Rynek. "Microplastics are most likely distributed much further across the oceans than previously assumed. We actually found plastics at all of our sampling stations. There were no samples without plastics. So, we can't assume that plastics are causing problems mainly in the known accumulation areas -- the problem is much bigger and actually affects the entire ocean ecosystem," says Jahnke.

This year, UN member states intend to adopt a legally binding global Plastics Treaty in order to stop plastic pollution into the ocean. "As independent scientists, we stand as part of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty to advise the delegates of the UN member states," says Bergmann. In addition to far-reaching reductions in plastic production by avoiding unnecessary plastic products and promoting reuse systems, many researchers believe that the chemical composition of plastic products needs to be simplified and improved. This is the only way to ensure safe reuse and higher recycling rates.

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• Robby Rynek, Mine B. Tekman, Christoph Rummel, Melanie Bergmann, Stephan Wagner, Annika Jahnke, Thorsten Reemtsma. Hotspots of Floating Plastic Particles across the North Pacific Ocean . Environmental Science & Technology , 2024; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c05039

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