The early Pacific Andes business model--seed others' fishing fleets and then use a complex network of sourcing and transshipping (acting as middleman between catch boats and markets)--left it seemingly in cahoots with what amounts to ocean poaching.
Called "cafe marron, " it lived on one island, Rodrigues, in the middle of the Indian Ocean in what is now part of Mauritius.
They aim to provide an interdisciplinary forum to assess what is known about ocean acidification and priorities for future research every 4 years.
So what better time for Ocean Power Technologies, a company that aims to capture hydropower as a source of clean, renewable energy, to makes its U.S. stock market debut?
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.
We're talking about frozen carbon dioxide, frozen other kinds of gases, but also water ice, and it's thought by most astronomers now that, originally, comets contributed a huge amount of water to Earth and a lot of what is now in our ocean.
Like the writer Sheila Heti and the filmmaker Lena Dunham, Ocean is deciding what it means to talk about friendship, drugs, love, and sex, and is setting the parameters for shame and regret in a world in which failure is simply a way of saying hello.
"I think Big Society Capital is a good thing, but it is a limited amount of money and it is a bit of a drop in the ocean, given what is happening to the sector, with the deficit-reduction programme really hitting the sector, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Aerial photographs from the descent show drainage channels apparently flowing off land into what seems to be a dark ocean, possibly composed of some tarry substance.
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"The SV3 is a tremendous step forward in terms of what we can accomplish in the ocean and gives customers a competitive advantage to capture data in the most challenging ocean conditions, " said Bill Vass, CEO, Liquid Robotics.
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What happens in the vast, deep ocean, out of sight and beyond the reach of sunlight and satellites?
What is going on in the deep ocean is so badly understood that estimates of biodiversity there range from 100, 000 species to 100m.
It marks what some people consider the northern border of the Great Basin and sits upon the farthest shore of what author Stephen Trimble calls the Sagebrush Ocean.
For the ocean to continue to do what's it's done for millions of years and serve the needs of a rapidly expanding human population, it needs to be healthy.
Global warming may make their northern wastes more habitable and allow them to exploit oil and gas located under what is now an ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
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.
This causes cracks to appear in the ocean seafloor -- this is what we think, " explains Buckland, adding "So you can measure what's happening to the landmass of Greenland by looking at the sea.
This Earth Day, keep in mind that each of us affects everyone else on Earth, because we all share the land, the ocean and especially the air on what is proving to be a pretty small planet.
"I started to think about what would it take to go deeper, what would it take to go to full ocean depth - that was kind of the holy grail from an engineering standpoint, " he told BBC News.
We swimmers know what it is to be chilled by the Arctic Ocean, and to be alive.
Big ocean skimming systems are much different than what you do in five or six feet in the back bay.
And what about the extreme weather experienced on the open ocean?
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The name Moby Grape comes from an absurdist punch line: What's big, purple and swims in the ocean?
For example, its governing body would be empowered to impose what amount to international taxes on resources extracted from the ocean floor and subsurface.
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Over the weekend however, AIS beacons showed dozens of ships steaming east, out of the way of what became the largest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
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He thinks that the Pacific Ocean could become for present-day Russia what the Baltic Sea was for the country in the age of Peter the Great: a source of wealth and a gate to modernity.
As the Plastiki sails through an ocean of trash we should all be ashamed of what we have done to this planet and what we have condemned our children to live with.
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