Seaweb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it.
We are delighted and honoured that Maud Fontenoy has accepted to serve as Spokeswoman for UNESCO IOC and the World Ocean Network to help us with this task.
The harrowing, around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race is about halfway done and one boat celebrating a new lead over the fleet is getting some bad news: this might be your last race.
He gave up a six-figure salary as a marketing consultant and dedicated his life to restoring the world's ocean reef ecosystems.
The researchers looked at variations in oxygen levels in the shells of tiny sea creatures found in samples taken from the world's ocean beds.
But in less than 20 years more than half of the world's ocean-going cargo vessels may be too large to pass through the canal's locks.
Irina Bokova (Director-General, UNESCO) lamented that only 1% of the world's ocean areas are protected, and urged enhancing environmental education so citizens do not take ocean sustainability for granted.
To showcase the threatened underwater heritage and raise public awareness, the first ever exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region on Underwater Cultural Heritage was recently opened at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok, Thailand.
But the main attraction at Clayoquot is the wilderness itself, and a slate of varied activities include horseback riding, river and ocean kayaking, whale watching, grizzly bear watching, hiking, mountain biking and world-class river, ocean, and lake fishing - some guests come primarily for the angling.
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But no matter where you are in Fiji, the world's largest ocean is nearby.
Since then they have been discovered at about 200 sites around the world including the Southern Ocean and the Atlantic.
On December 18th Maersk, the world's largest ocean carrier, announced it would leave Charleston by 2011, citing high costs and union intransigence.
It sounds great in theory: using human ingenuity to make fresh water for the most parched state from the world's biggest ocean.
In green energy news, this week Lockheed Martin announced plans to construct the world's largest ocean thermal energy conversion plant off the southern coast of China.
Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.
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The Ice Bear, as he is often called, also became the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean in the world.
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Turkmenistan's interest in Afghanistan is predominantly commercial: peace would allow it to pipe its oil southwards to the Indian Ocean and the world market.
The Mediterranean world sketched by Braudel and the world system across the Atlantic Ocean described by Wallerstein were nothing other than subsystems of the global system that encompassed Africa, the Mediterranean, the Islamic Middle East, India, China, and Southeast Asia.
She holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
Atlantic bluefin tuna -- the most high-priced ocean fish in the world -- have declined by about 90 percent since the 1960s due to overfishing.
The Base Force was oriented around the historic, U.S.-centric, two-ocean view of the world, consisting of an Atlantic Force, a Pacific Force, a Contingency Force, and a Strategic Force.
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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In addition to winning multiple swimming marathons, she was one of the first women to encircle the island of Manhattan, and she holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
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For millennia, the Atlantic Ocean had been a barrier cutting Europe off from the rest of the world, but Europe's new ships effectively shrank the ocean, turning it into a commercial highway.
After treatment, Dr. Kenney claimed that most animals were healthier at Sea World than they had been in the ocean.
The Ocean in a High CO2 World symposia are co-hosted by UNESCO-IOC, The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
He also holds the world-record depth for a solo ocean dive in a submersible, at 3, 000 feet--"People think it's interesting there, but you're just sitting, " he says.
The original Titanic was the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912.
Additionally, the RACE FOR WATER flagship vessel could launch Argo floats during its journey around the world as a contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
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