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Search tips:

• Check your spelling. We (still) use the English spelling, thus fertiliser instead of fertilizer; snorkelling instead of snorkeling; practice instead of practise and so on. If in doubt, use half the word, followed by a wild-card * as explained below. Two words may or may not have been joined like megatsunami instead of mega tsunami.
• Keep your query simple. Rather than entering what is the purpose of Seafriends?, just enter the word purpose or goal. Don't be disappointed when your search does not immediately return what you want. Try a synonym. The search index contains over 300,000 words and twice as many word endings from all sentences in all pages. Instead of Antennarius striatus, enter antennarius or antenna* .
• Multiple keywords (OR): Multiple keywords separated by spaces are treated as either/ or: storm wave lists pages where either storm or wave or both occur.
• Multiple keywords (AND): By entering more than one keyword separated by the plus sign, you can narrow your search: storm + classification. lists only those pages where both words occur.
• Phrases: by placing words within double quotes, the search engine will treat them as a phrase: "perfect storm" lists only those pages where the entire phrase occurs.
• Wild-card: Specify part of a keyword by placing a star in the missing bits: angle* will look for angle, angler, anglesite and so on. This is a very important and powerful search option, since it avoids mis-spelling, word endings and other spelling oddities.
• Jump into the page. Your results page comes up immediately after entering your keywords. Each paragraph contains the title of the document where a match was found, and with some luck, another link which brings you closer to that place inside the page. Click on the second link to jump into the page. Note that it may take some time before the page and its images have been loaded.
• Search the page: Most documents on this web site are rather large, and many search results do not take you precisely to where they occur within the relevant page, and once there, the matching words are not highlighted. Use the browser option Edit/Find in page to search within a page. This search facility does not work like a web search engine, since it matches your text with every word or part thereof in the page only, but it can save you much time.
• Searching for images: Each image has a small description (the ALT tag), which is also indexed by the search engine. We attempt to make the single sentence in this tag as meaningful as possible.
• Try our site map: if you are not quite sure what you are looking for, try our site map which gives an overview of the structure and content of the entire web site.
• Try our dictionaries: the dictionaries contain perhaps the notions and words you are looking for. In due time, they will be provided with links to relevant chapters: environment/ocean dictionary and the geology dictionary.

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