A heavy gust of wind heaved us against the ocean, our vessel struggling to stay erect as the wild sea began storming and roaring with intense brutality. I lay sprawled out on the deck of the ship. Odysseus stood near the edge of the ship spouting orders to the crew, while the salty liquid fought its way into my mouth. The insidious beast disguised as the majestic ocean, crashed against our ship, sending another wave of chilly water onto plank. The acidic waves looked like teeth waiting to consume
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shore with colorful umbrellas. Even at this distance, we could hear indistinct chattering between people. Every one of us except the parents rushed to the ocean where the coldness of the water left me shivering. The foamy water that were the remnants of the crashing waves came up at regular intervals. The others continued to play in the icy ocean while I looked for the bucket that we brought with us to build a sand castle. I dumped buckets of wet sand onto the dry portion of the beach and called it
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Wahoo Cray’s family is broke.His father, Mickey, is an animal wrangler. Mickey was hit on the head by a frozen iguana. One day, Mickey receives a job renting out and handling animals for a TV show called Expedition Survival! Expedition Survival is a reality TV show that stars a young man named Derek Badger. Despite his father’s wishes, Wahoo accepts the job. While Derek is at the Cray’s house, he is bitten by a snapping turtle. He tries to get the Cray’s python, Beulah, to wrestle him, but is tackled
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Within the deep ocean water there is a giant squid. This squid is the Architeuthis dux. Architeuthis dux has normal qualities but what makes it different and able to live in the environment it lives in? The squid has two huge eyes, a funnel and a beak. The squid lives 500 to 1000 m below the surface of the ocean. The squid has two eyes, each eye is about about 30 cm in diameter, and known to be the biggest eyes of any animal on earth! The eyes, help them by absorbing light which enables them to
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Hammock’ in Palm Coast Natural beauty likely is a major reason you’re considering a new Florida home. That’s why a historical area known as “the Hammock” in Palm Coast is a treat. It buttresses the hidden-jewel city of Palm Coast from the Atlantic Ocean and offers modern beauty — lovely homes along the Intracoastal Waterway and myriad Palm Coast canals. There’s also timeless beauty — sandy streets that tunnel through the Hammock’s thick canopy, past tucked-away homes, to the beach. You have both
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MARPOL is divided into different sections – called Annexes – that each deal with a specific category of ship emissions. In 1988 MARPOL Annex V brought about regulations for garbage dumping by ships and completely banned the dumping of plastics into the oceans. Under MARPOL Annex V ports were equipped with garbage reception facilities to be regulated by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and on top of that Annex V implemented regulations and restrictions on the garbage disposal
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(Balaenoptera musculus), is the largest animal on our planet. It weighs as much as 33 elephants, is the length of three school buses, has a heart the size of a volkswagen Beetle, and eats around 4 tons of krill a day. They have been spotted in every ocean. They are the loudest animals, as their calls are louder than a jet engine, they can reach 188 decibels,
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This case, R. v. Dudley and Stephens, surrounds the unfortunate events that surrounded the sinking of ship in 1884 far off the coast of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. There are many facts that surround this case. The boat left with exactly four men (Tom Dudley, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks, and Richard Parker). They were heading from Southampton, England to Sydney, Australia. They left on May 19, 1884. The boat sank on July 5, 1884, about 1600 miles off of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The
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Every year about eight million tons of plastic is dumped into our surrounding oceans, making that about 22,000 tons in one single day. Who decided that it is socially acceptable to dump waste into our delicate oceans; that do nothing but keep our Earth alive? Sustainable coastlines are a major role that play into preventing ocean pollution of plastics and other waste. The goal of sustainable coastlines are to inspire local communities to come together as a whole and help towards hands-on beach cleanups
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The oceans house great mysteries that are yet to be revealed. Healthy oceans are crucial to maintaining marine relationships and food webs and sustaining the livelihood and economies of coastal communities. Unfortunately, the oceans are facing dangerous losses in biodiversity due to overfishing. Overfishing, as described by National Geographic in an article titled “Pristine Seas Overfishing” (National Geographic Society), is the “taking of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for fished species
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