What lies beneath
A HIDDEN world lies within shallow waters around the British coastline, but parts of it are being lost before many of us have realised its remarkable beauty and diversity.
Some 167 years ago, Charles Kingsley, the author of the underwater classic (1863), gave vent to his fascination with the mysteries of underwater plant and animal life in his (1855). He bewailed the riches of our coastal waters, which had ‘to be seen, alas! rather by the imagination than by the eye…. Often, standing on the shore at low tides, one has longed to walk on and under the waves… and see it all but
