He argued that the sea gets it iron from dust swept into the sea from the land, and that wind currents weren't carrying iron to HNLC areas.

CNN: Topical waters

Ten storeys high, these wind-swept piles rise from the sea and abut steep, rocky cliffs.

BBC: Stepping back in time in Socotra

They had been jumping from the cliff into the sea, when a swell swept 11 of their party away.

BBC: Four in sea rescue

Rachel McCollum and Darren Cecil were on holiday from Kettering when their son, Dylan, was swept off the jetty at Burnham-on-Sea in August.

BBC: Dylan Cecil sea fall inquest: Parents absolved of blame

The biggest toll from the disaster is likely to come from those who drowned as the giant wave swept over cities and farmland and then withdrew back toward the sea, according to Pascal James Imperato, the Dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.

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