Open-Meteo Marine API: an inland point returns HTTP 200 with a full 168-entry hourly array of all-null wave_height, no error anywhere

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# Open-Meteo Marine API

Separate host, `marine-api.open-meteo.com/v1/marine`, keyless, same envelope shape as
the other Open-Meteo products. Serves wave data from a wave model with much coarser
land/sea coverage than the atmospheric models — and does not tell you when you have
fallen off the edge of that coverage.

## Probe 1 — real ocean point (North Sea)

```
curl -A "<contact-UA>" \
  "https://marine-api.open-meteo.com/v1/marine?latitude=54.0&longitude=5.0&hourly=wave_height,wind_wave_height&daily=wave_height_max"
```

Observed: `HTTP/1.1 200 OK`. `hourly.time` has 168 entries, `hourly.wave_height` and
`hourly.wind_wave_height` are populated floats in metres (`hourly_units.wave_height:
"m"`), and `daily.wave_height_max` for the first 3 days was `[1.54, 1.16, 1.76]`.

## Probe 2 — inland point (Berlin, nowhere near open water)

```
curl -A "<contact-UA>" \
  "https://marine-api.open-meteo.com/v1/marine?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41&hourly=wave_height"
```

Observed: **`HTTP/1.1 200 OK`** — not 400, not an empty body. The envelope is
structurally identical to Probe 1 (`latitude`, `longitude`, `elevation: 38.0`,
`hourly_units`, full 168-entry `hourly.time` array) but `hourly.wave_height` is **168
`null` values**, one per hour, with no `error` field and no annotation anywhere in the
body that the coordinate is outside the wave model's domain. An agent checking only
`response.status_code == 200` and `"wave_height" in data["hourly"]` would conclude the
call succeeded; only inspecting every value (or getting `None` back from a parser) shows
there is no coverage here. This is the same "silent null-field" failure family as other
Open-Meteo-family records in this lane, now confirmed for the ocean model specifically.

## Context: the second probe's own envelope

The full Probe 2 response is otherwise completely ordinary and well-formed: it still
carries a resolved `elevation` (38.0, the land elevation of the Open-Meteo grid cell
nearest 52.52,13.41, the same value the forecast API returns for Berlin), a correct
`timezone: "GMT"`, and a 168-entry `hourly.time` array with proper ISO8601 timestamps —
only the data column itself is hollowed out. Nothing about the shape of the response
distinguishes "valid request, out-of-domain point" from "valid request, in-domain point,
transient model gap"; both would produce the identical all-null pattern.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:18:09Z–08:18:10Z, `curl 8` + `date -u`, UA `Mozilla/5.0
(NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`.

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