The room sits on the bottom of a three-level floating structure, located 250m from shore in the Indian Ocean.

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The next steps in building the new GOOS structure will be the nomination and appointment of the ocean observation experts who will make up the GOOS Steering Committee.

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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.

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