Occurring on only a few dozen rivers around the world, tidal bores are as rare as they are intriguing. Michael Berry outlines the science behind this natural phenomenon and describes his sighting in ...

Nobody say “tsunami.” As we got closer to 10:03 p.m., the predicted time of arrival of Sunday’s giant wave, we got more and more nervous. The three of us were stood on the southern tip of Lower ...

SINCE writing to you on February 12, I have had the opportunity of observing the bore of this morning, a tide which corresponds with that of February 12, 1899, which was remarkable. But to-day's “head ...

THE title of this book is perhaps slightly misleading. It is not a hydrographical treatise giving all the details of the propagation of the tide in the Severn, with ranges of tide, times of rising and ...