assets needed to maintain stability. Future climate changes will affect the organization, training, equipping, and planning of U.S. national security forces. For example, military installations like “Diego Garcia, an atoll in the southern Indian Ocean that serves as a major logistics hub for U.S. and British forces in the Middle East, is only a few feet above sea level.” Making it extremely vulnerable to any sea rise. If important U.S. military bases needed to provide
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breaths fighting for every last bit of air My arms and legs kick out desperately as I try to stay on the surface But the more I try to fight the horrific current the more my muscles become sore from fatigue As I begin to slowly sink deeper into the ocean the back of my head pounds, threatening to explode at any moment Suddenly, my entire body is throbbing as if it had been struck by one thousand needles I feel disoriented with the onset of asphyxia. Oxygen I think to myself I need oxygen I try
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of the seagulls and puffins in the distance. Kids laughing, dogs barking, and the faint roar of the Pacific. As the tide lowers, you get up slowly. Taking in a deep breath of ocean air. Walking out to the famous Haystack Rock. You peer out seeing the brave people who have walked out what seems like miles out into the ocean with the water at there knees. You peer at the rock which is covered with colourful starfish and barnacle. The warm water at your ankles, the very wet sand massaging your feet
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on the bounty of the ocean for everything from subsistence lifestyles to the maintenance of multi-million dollar fishing enterprises. In North America, for many of us fish arrives on our plate by way of a long commodity chain ending at the local grocery store, and is a product we expect to see available daily as much as we might expect to see bread, milk, and eggs. Internationally, fish have different meanings; important culturally and economically, in some places what the ocean provides is the only
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Sight! I called out as the white of the Secchi disk, an instrument used to measure turbidity, peeked through the green depths. After marking where the rope just broke the surface of the blue-green, we slowly pulled the disc out of the frigid Atlantic water. It was the fourth day of a marine biology program at the Shoals Marine Laboratory off the coast of Maine. There, along with twelve other high school students, we learned about a plethora of topics, ranging from the mechanics of oceanic tides to
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In the short story Driftglass, Samuel Delany portrays the life of Cal Svenson, a former depth gauger with the International Aquatic Corp. the story unfolds in the ocean with the characters attempting to highlight the transition that occurs throughout life. The person gets through to old age gaining experience and teaches it to the young interns. Characters such as Ariel, Tork, and Cal work in spaces under the water which the author describes as,” complex for fall all to comprehend while the military
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The warming of the oceans is detrimental for coral reefs because they are very particular about what water temperature they live in. Also the warming of the oceans causes glacier to melt, thus causing rising seas. " The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found that sea level is rising at a rate of .12 inches per year—60 percent faster than the .08 inches per year it predicted in 2007" (Global Reef Threats). Rising seas causes coral reefs to be deeper in the ocean. As something gets further
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the plane. We entered the water like getting shot by a gun, was how hard the impact was. I am holding onto gabby for life, dragging her up to the surface. I could feel the explosion of the impact of the plane when the impact of the plane touched the ocean, the plane blew up and all you can see was fire and little bits of pieces of the plane. Off the corner of my eye I could see an island. I knew that the only way
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“Into the Dark Water” by Lauren Tarshis is an article about Jack Thayer. A 17 year old victim of the Titanic sinking into the dark ocean. Lauren used quotes that Jack said to keep the reader gripped into the article and. One of the quotes Jack stated in the article is “as though she had been gently pushed.” Jack said this to show that something hit the Titanic without a doubt. The quote is also showing that the object was big enough to push the Titanic. Jack also said when the engine stopped it
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TITLE Sea Ranch Lodge, California: Off Sonoma County's Beaten Path LEAD PARAGRAPH The North Sonoma Coast is a rugged land shaped by wind and water. In the winter big storms out at sea send their messenger waves crashing on the shoreline. Summer brings hummingbirds and other migratory winged travelers to feast on the bounty nature provides. Human city dwellers come also and Sea Ranch-aka The Sea Ranch, is a favorite destination to get away from the hustle and bustle of urban landscapes. PARAGRAPHS
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