Sea foam on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Photo: vision63. Sometimes, the wind and the waves whip the ocean into a lather. And that word—lather—is a pretty accurate description of sea foam. Sea foam is ...

On February 17 at about 7 am, Jim Grant pulled up to a “big whitish blob” north of the Ocean Beach Pier. “The foam was coming up the stairs and had come over the 40” high sea wall for a length of 100 ...

What is that called again? It has various names: ocean foam, beach foam and, sometimes, spume if you want to be scientific. However, most people know it as sea foam. It is a natural phenomenon and ...

When it comes to sea health, white foam that disappears almost instantly is a clear sign of a healthy ecosystem. Conversely, dense foam that sticks around, a dark (typically brownish) colour, or an ...

Photographs of "sea form" circulated online date from August 2007, when the Australian shoreline at Yamba (north of Sydney) in New South Wales was swallowed up by a layer of foam, transforming the ...

A massive storm sent ocean foam surging through Victoria Bay near George in the Western Cape on 6 April 2026, covering homes ...

Visitors to Chennai’s Pattinampakkam beach have recently been witnessing white foam rolling in along with the waves. Ocean foam is a common phenomenon during the monsoon after heavy rain, when the ...

Capetonians woke up to a spectacular surge of ocean foam at the Sea Point Promenade as a result of strong winds and high seas on Monday. The SA Weather Service on Sunday warned of a looming strong ...