So glad to be a part of the IFERS forum. After 35 years in marine engineering and also being a private pilot I need no convincing that the earth is a level plane encapsulated by some kind of a firmament.

The tides I know are nothing at all to do with the Moon and there are some things we’ll never fully understand until a fully independent exploration of the Northern Pole and beyond the Southern Ice Wall.

The main issue that I stick with is weather systems and how low pressure depressions rotate …