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Nature 434, 19-20 (3 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434019a; Published online 2 March 2005

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Watching over the world's oceans

Keith Alverson1

  1. Keith Alverson is at the Global Ocean Observing System of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, 1 Rue Miollis, 75732 Paris, CEDEX 15, France.

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A quick technological fix is not the best response to the December tsunami.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the HMS Beagle docked in Concepciòn, Chile, giving Charles Darwin the opportunity to see and describe the immediate aftermath of a tidal wave. His eyewitness account in the classic Voyage of the Beagle could easily be read as a report from Sri Lanka after the tsunami of 26 December 2004.

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