The buoyant life of Steve Barstow

Stephen Barstow: “We also once found a buoy in Portugal being used for Christmas lights in a scout hut”

“If you measure the waves washing up on a Cornish coast, you can ‘see back in time’ to the storm that created them, perhaps tens of thousands of kilometres away,” says Stephen Barstow, Fugro Oceanor’s chief ocean wave climatologist.

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