For every two gallons of water the plant takes in, its reverse osmosis process will make one gallon of fresh water and send back to the ocean one gallon with twice the salinity level.
Even in the best of times, the open ocean is one of the harshest, most unforgiving environments on earth.
The City on the Bay sits on a peninsula with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other.
Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of Earth's most violent processes: the destruction of massive underwater mountains.
The ocean overlaps one end of the plank and the other end is fixed to the ground (the interior of the tectonic plate).
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The 12-year-old Ocean Atlas is one of a very small number of U.S.-flagged heavy-lift vessels.
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This workshop will continue to develop one Ocean Forecasting System with an initial focus on the South East Asian Waters and adjacent areas.
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Joram Madnack is the general manager of the French-owned Indian Ocean Tuna, one of the world's largest tuna canneries and the biggest employer in the Seychelles.
But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.
This still leaves an ocean blip, and i think one needs to have some form of ocean blip to explain the land blip (via either some common forcing, or ocean forcing land, or vice versa, or all of these).
We started in the Hall of Ocean Life, the one with the giant blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
Brooks, who is studying international ocean policy, was one of 30 U.S. scientists monitoring Antarctica's unique eco-system, as part of a National Science Foundation research cruise.
By 1776, the Atlantic Ocean had become what one historian has called "an information highway" across which poured books, magazines, newspapers and copies of the debates in Parliament.
One does not even begin to plan an ocean crossing in a 40-foot boat unless one is an optimist.
Just keeping a station in one spot on the ocean is nearly impossible.
Just traveling from one point in the ocean to the next is a record because nothing like this has ever been done.
Yet the basic principle of the cables is shockingly simple: Light goes in on one shore of the ocean and comes out on the other.
With a historic Dutch-built fort as its backdrop and views of the ocean it is frequently described as one of the most beautiful grounds in the world.
While reefs are just a sliver of that space (two-tenths of one percent of the ocean area), they are home to a quarter of all marine species.
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The first one focused on helping ocean bound private boats remove barnacles from their hulls by sending a diver into the water below the boat with a high pressure hose.
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If you like to eat in the company of the glitterati and you've got the bank balance to back you up, take your meat-loving self to Prime One Twelve (112 Ocean Drive).
Since there have been no tsunamis of comparable size in the Indian Ocean in living memory, no one knows how badly fish stocks will be affected or how long they will take to recover.
By the time he reaches the other end and looks back, he feels more as if he were standing on a dock gazing up at the prow of a huge ocean-going vessel, perhaps one of Pessoa's dream ships.
His one-and-a-half revolutions of the stormy southern ocean, before at last dropping anchor in Tahiti, is one of the great feats of singlehanded sailing.
To this day, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific while separated by the largest ocean on earth, remain linked to one another through language, culture and history.
And because of that, Rio de Janeiro thinks that its newfound Petrobras oil wealth can one day make their Atlantic Ocean the North Sea of Norway.
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