Even with just a snorkel instead of a full diving apparatus, the clarity of the ocean and the range of life within it is staggering.
Securing the role of the ocean as a source of life, of food and of biodiversity, requires effective action at many levels.
The strength of that pressure may depend in part on the psychological impact of fresh discoveries about the diversity of ocean life.
We started in the Hall of Ocean Life, the one with the giant blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
By day he was guided by the rising and setting sun but also by the ocean herself, the mother of life.
Shark fin is a particularly sorry example of the wanton decimation of ocean life feeding more indulgent tastes (see also bluefin tuna) as well as for more basic diets.
No one had tried to determine what the full spectrum of life in the ocean looked like a hundred years or five hundred years in the past.
The impacts of ocean acidification on marine life, and ultimately the socio-economic effects, are potentially dramatic.
Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability sounds the alarm about the health of the ocean, and explains how it influences our everyday life by regulating the climate, providing highly-nutritious food and by sustaining livelihoods and economies.
These microscopic creatures are at the heart of the ocean food chain, and all sea life depends on them.
From a life-poor patch of ocean in the South Pacific to a life-rich lake in the East African Rift System, clear waters can be found in all different corners of the world.
Mr Varma's answer is brutal: the rich in India have always lived a life quite uncaring of the ocean of poverty around them.
The ocean is a complex web of marine life, with many species being driven to extinction year after year.
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Seaweb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it.
Often my mother would remind me that if a delicate seashell could survive the violent tumbles of the ocean, then I too could weather the turbulent times in life.
It took me a while (all of twelve hours) to realize what it was: for so much of my life, I have been physically oriented to think of the ocean as that thing to the East (the Atlantic) or the West (the Pacific) of me.
The men were picked up from a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 380 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico.
Statistically, tsunamis in the Mediterranean are more frequent than those in the Indian Ocean and have caused extensive damage and loss of life during centuries.
Only by pushing mankind to its limits, to the bottoms of the ocean and into space, will we make discoveries in science and technology that can be adapted to improve life on Earth.
The ocean is a single, contiguous body of water that is crucial to human life: an unauthorized experiment carried out in one place can have consequences hundreds of kilometres away.
Ocean monitoring improves the management of marine and coastal ecosystems and resources, and protects life and property on coasts and at sea.
Indeed, an ocean, a tide of lost ancestors, a bitter benediction of the waters dividing the old life and the new.
Navigating through the CD-Rom, a child can explore five different branches of Antarctic research: ocean life, glaciers, astronomy, albatrosses and a strange phenomenon called whistlers, which are faint echoes of Northern Hemisphere thunderstorms.
The bycatch, unwanted fish and other ocean life thrown back into the sea, can amount to as much as 90% of a trawl's total catch.
The problem is partly due to people collecting abandoned shells from beaches, although much of the marine life that makes those calcium carbonate shells is also increasingly threatened by ocean acidification.
Gem of the Ocean is the latest in Wilson's 10-part cycle about African-American life in the 20th century.
Estimated to be around the size of Texas, this contaminated area of ocean has by some estimates more plastic than food for marine life.
While fewer species live in the ocean than on land, marine life represents much older evolutionary lineages that are fundamental to our understanding of life on Earth, Appeltans says.
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In his boat, the straight line of ocean unbroken on any side, every minute was a day, one hour was longer than any life ever lived.
Rancher Carol Kimsey, who lives in a valley near the Pacific Ocean on the U.S.-side of the fence, says the border barrier has improved the quality of life in the area.
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