They swam for 12 to 14 hours, talking as they pushed and shivered their way through the ocean.
It is possible that larger seeps at different times and locations might in fact be vigorous enough to break through the ocean surface.
Their sheer size as they cut through the ocean, the scream of planes taking off and coming into land, makes them an exciting, visceral experience, says Thompson.
Among the eclectic choices: a computer game that solves scientific problems, a nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon that leverages donor funds to provide microloans to clean water projects and a venture by Japanese technology giant Mitsubishi that makes ships move more efficiently through the ocean, cutting down on CO2 emissions.
For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.
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The Argos deployed off the Lady Amber constitute a major contribution to the Indian Ocean Observing System and will assist scientists better understand and be able to predict the Indian Ocean's dynamics, and thereby lead to societal benefit as that understanding and associated products transfer to Indian Ocean communities through the Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS) framework.
As he guided me through the virtual ocean, which currently has 60 species of fish, he was talking about the whole underwater world.
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Many foreign companies go through the Indian Ocean nation to invest in India, which doesn't have a treaty safeguarding investments with the U.S. and some other countries.
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We've demonstrated delivery of ocean data services through the most challenging ocean conditions.
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Actually, what's commonly known as the Gulf Stream is just part of a wider phenomenon know as Thermohaline, responsible for transporting heat to Europe through the Atlantic Ocean.
The thing is beautiful -- and yeah, we can confirm, as Kaz suggested, that you really do want to stick out your hand and touch the picture when you're standing in front of it, particularly, when the video cycles through images of the ocean, with water droplets hitting the screen.
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Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.
For a country formed when cooling volcanic rock rose through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the archipelago's story in this tournament is appropriate: once again, Cape Verde is a continental newcomer ready to leave its mark.
Youth are also invited to take action for the ocean through the UNESCO Youth Forum as part of the closing events of the Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea for the Living Ocean and Coasts.
Long before Britney Spears notoriously married her high school sweetheart at five in the morning, and long before George Clooney and Brad Pitt strutted through the Bellagio in Ocean's Eleven.
To achieve such a performance, the ships will rely not on their mighty jet engines, nor on being long and thin, but on a revolutionary design to slice through the waves and float above the ocean's drag.
The direct results of human activities on the ocean and through climate change are causing the blue part of this blue planet to warm, rise, and lose oxygen.
In this perspective, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) provided an overview on the key ocean issues that are being discussed through the Rio negotiation process and highlighted a number of desirable ocean targets that would mark a successful outcome at Rio.
More than four-fifths of crude oil bound for China crosses the Indian Ocean before passing through the narrow Malacca Strait.
This time, however, a total eclipse will be visible in a thin strip from Iran to the Pacific ocean, cutting through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Song, Richards and colleagues studied waves generated by small earthquakes in the southern Atlantic Ocean that passed through the core to a seismograph in Alaska where they were measured.
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Moments of silence were also held from Canada, down through the United States and even across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
The sun was going down as we left Malibu and headed north on 101, running smoothly through Oxnard and along the ocean to Santa Barbara.
The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, either through the enhancement of natural weathering processes or direct capture from ambient air are further examples, as well as the enhancement of oceanic CO2 uptake through ocean fertilisation with scarce nutrients or the enhancement of upwelling processes.
England has been intimately connected to this corner of India since 1826, when the British began planting tea estates all along the river valley of the mighty Brahmaputra, which courses out of the Himalayas and flows through Assam on its way to the Indian Ocean.
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In 1520, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific ocean.
Now, the whales migrate through a channel of ocean that's heavily trafficked by cargo and fishing ships, earning the species a new nickname: the urban whale.
The tracks run south from Cape Town through the rugged Cape Peninsula, with fantastic views of the ocean and small trackside villages.
From here, you can gaze down at the ocean shifting through a paint-chart's worth of blues as the ship draws closer to the islands.
She noted her organization's leading role in protecting ocean ecosystems through the establishment of marine heritage sites, which represent one-third of the world's marine protected areas.
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