The system was designed to especially protect the nation's Atlantic Ocean coast and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch's effect on ocean environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In Helen's first experience with the ocean, she was caught by a wave and pulled under the water.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It warned that the world's ocean fish could be almost gone by the middle of the century.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

This is a safe and popular method of watching Kilauea's lava moving slowly toward the ocean.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

Scientists say small changes in the sun's brightness can produce effects on Earth similar to two weather events in warm waters of the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

He says they also can show part of the ocean's ancient history.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

He can no more judge the wishes of the great mass of our people by the words of these middlemen than he can measure the ocean's silent depths by the foam upon its waves."

VOA: special.2010.06.24

This year's hunt in the Southern Ocean has been punctuated by violent clashes between the Japanese fleet and radical conservationists.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

Many motor home owners have driven to all 50 U.S.states - except,of course,Hawaii, way out in the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Sibylle Schellman, a native of Germany, runs a small restaurant overlooking the ocean in the coastal town of Calheta on Santiago's northeast coast.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

On Jan.23,1960, the two men took the Trieste to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, a ravine called Challenger Deep.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

In recent years environmentalists have attempted to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in the icy Southern Ocean.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Scientists say it's getting wider every year and the area could eventually become a new ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan's claims that whales have to be killed to properly study them.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

Japan's whaling fleet is currently on its annual hunt in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, where it aims to catch about 1,000 whales.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

But he warns that some of Somalia's pirates are shifting their attentions from the Gulf of Aden and instead sailing further out in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Britain-based piracy expert Peter Lehr says Somalia's pirates are shifting their attentions from the Gulf of Aden and increasingly sailing farther out in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Heller's surfing adventure took him to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, where he became more aware of some serious environmental issues threatening the world's oceans.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"He was telling us, not only our family, but more and more the public, 'Don't use the ocean as a garbage can, as a universal sewer because it's a life support system.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18