More facts about the oceans are being discovered by scientists in mini-submarines each year.Deep-sea Coral reefsNew facts about deep-sea coral reefs are being discovered. Just a few years ago it was thought that stony corals could not live without sunlight. The algae that creates 90% of ...
The first manned expedition was in 1960 when Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard took the risk and became the first to conquer the Challenger Deep for about 30 minutes. Fifty-two years later, James Cameron seized the opportunity to dive solo into this chasm in a submarine he helped design. He sp...
China. As the largestmarginalsea of the western Pacific, it covers an area of about 1,423,000 square miles (3,685,000 square km) and has a mean depth of 3,478 feet (1,060 meters). The major topographic feature of the South China Sea is a deep, rhombus-shaped basin in the eastern...
The Deep Sea starts about below 200 metres/ 656 ft below sea level where the sunlight fades away. The twilight zone ends about 1,000 m/ 3280 ft below sea level. No light reaches deeper and it is dark there. To survive in the deep ocean, marine life has to adapt and there are some...
More interesting Facts about the Atlantic Ocean for Kids here.Extension: Lern more about the marginal seas or inland seas of the Atlantic Oceans: Black Sea (connected via the Mediterranean Sea) and Baltic Sea (connected via the North Sea)....
This website provides answers to the 15 most asked questions about deep seabed mining (see below). If you want further information, please visit Minerals in Depth or contact us using the green button above. This webpage is maintained by GSR, the deep sea exploratory division of DEME Group....
The lowest point on the Atlantic is the Puerto Rico Trench, which measures eight and a half thousand meters deep. It is located near the boundary of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Among the world’s oceans, the Atlantic is considered to be the youngest. It is estimated to have...
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul...then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. - Herman Melville In his dialogueTimaeus, Plato tells the story of a fantastically wealthy city called Atlantis, which...
Deep-sea vent, hydrothermal vent formed on the ocean floor when seawater circulates through hot volcanic rocks, often located where new oceanic crust is being formed. Vents also occur on submarine volcanoes. Learn more about deep-sea vents in this articl
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