WAVES AND BEACHES
Do you have a PhD in geophysical fluid dynamics? Adam Fincham does. He’s the type of guy who could breeze through round after round of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to take the bacon. But he doesn’t need to, because anyone with a PhD in something as complex and niche as geophysical fluid dynamics is clearly going places. We’ll discuss Adam’s contribution to the world of waves a little later. In the meantime, for the layperson who doesn’t have a rare and mind-boggling PhD but wouldn’t mind a crack at Eddy’s hot seat, there’s a much more accessible and enjoyable option to help level up ocean knowledge: read the third incarnation of the late legendary waterman Willard Bascom’s Waves and Beaches.1
We’ve dubbed this little number “The Ocean Encyclopaedia”, because our beloved aquatic environments cover such a vast range of topics and elements. They require dedicated chapters to explain each one in adequate detail. This is a book so stacked with facts that we can’t help but grow from
