CURRENTS OF CHANGE
Online Gulf Stream Presentation
sponsored by the Marion & Newport Bermuda Races

March 9th, 2021 The Marion- and Newport-Bermuda Races are sponsoring a presentation on the Gulf Stream being given online on 9th March by the experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, one of the preeminent ocean research organizations in the world. It will be moderated by Frank Bohlen, who many of you will know from his many Marion/Newport Gulf Stream Safety at Sea presentations and weather predictions.

Crossing the Gulf Stream is not something that all of us get to do, but it is an amazing body of water. It was first charted by Benjamin Franklin in 1769 and has been pondered by navigators ever since. It is the reason we are sub-tropical, rather than living with the less-than-balmy average temperatures experienced by everyone else who lives at 32°N; it is the reason that Scotland isn’t as frozen as Scandinavia and why you can see palm trees in the Outer Hebrides. The Marion-Bermuda Race is offering to share with us this deep dive into the eccentricities of this ‘river within an ocean’. So whether you are planning to be racing to Bermuda, or heading south for warmer climes in the future, or maybe you are just a climate/weather geek, this is a not-to-be-missed event. Click on the link below to register. https://whoi.zoom.us/webinar/register/7916121999765/WN_ES3KzP46Q12TPtydWZhFRQ