About
The publication. Third person about the water and never about the group. It names a stretch of water, the pressure on it, who holds the instruments and who pays; it never says that a problem is addressable by anyone in particular, and it never names a system, a program or a service. The reader is trusted to be intelligent, busy and capable of holding a number, and is never told how to feel about what they are shown.
One named body of water at a time, with a live and dated problem, read down through its physics, its chemistry, its century, its fleet, its law and its people. Monthly, twelve hundred to fifteen hundred words, one journey.
The pictures
Every issue opens with a satellite image of the water that issue is about, on or about the day it is about. They come from the European Union's Copernicus programme, they are rendered by the same build that sets the type, and the day, the instrument and the frame are recorded in the issue's own manifest so that anybody can go and pull the same scene.
A picture at the head of a piece is read as proof by readers who never reach a footnote, so each one is filed with a note saying what it does not show. A true-colour scene of a reef does not measure coral cover. A thermal frame is not an anomaly against any average, and the cold-looking parts of it are usually cloud. The pieces carry the numbers; the pictures carry the place and the date, and nothing else.