The Expo will present current knowledge and technology advancements concerning the ocean and coast to a broad audience and identify ways to resolve challenges facing the ocean.

UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

It includes a 20, 000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa with eight bedrooms and 14 bathrooms, two guesthouses, a standalone gym, tennis courts and a swimming pool facing out toward the ocean.

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Despite the enormous advance in knowledge about the many threats to the ocean, the greatest problem facing us now with respect to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is ignorance, and with it, complacency.

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The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.

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From big-city Montreal to the Atlantic-facing Nova Scotia capital of Halifax, the 1, 346km Ocean service is an almost 24-hour trip.

BBC: Majestic Canada, coast to coast

"I've never seen the beach as packed as it's been the last two weekends, " said Judy Kuhl, general manager of the Best Western Plus Agate Beach Inn, whose ocean-facing suites offer a clear view of the hulk.

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Rio de Janeiro is almost impossibly marvellous, with its curving white beaches and city neighbourhoods studded with green-shrouded mountains, all facing the blue depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

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In every ocean-facing room are large windows showcasing the view, which the couple enhanced by raising their lawn by 4 feet, so that the grass and the sea appear to touch in the distance and cars driving by disappear.

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