If you take practically anything that exists in nature, the chances are that there is also a special science to study it. Oceanography is the study of all the sciences connected with the ocean to help man understand how the ocean was formed and how changes take place in it.

As you might imagine, this takes quite a bit of studying! Let’s see what it includes. Well, we can begin with the shoreline itself. The seacoast, the borderline between land and sea, is always changing due to tides, storms, everyday action of the sea against the shore, and upward and downward movements of the land.