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The swirling sea
by
Fiona
The swirling sea
The floating foam
Rage in the storm,
The sailing boats
The squaking gulls
The light-house horn.
The screaming wind
The pounding rain
The waves that cut and bite.
The dark night
The poor lost boats
Trying to find the light. |
Paranormal
encounter Ancient Myths-Atlantis
Strange science
-Sea Monsters
The unnatural
museum
Sea Monsters |
"Ah! What pleasant
visions haunt me
As I gaze upon the sea!
All the old romantic
legends
All my dreams, come
back to me."
From The Galley
of Count Arnaldos
by Longfellow |
Seahorse tales
photography
Seahorse
Park-Multimedia Gallery
Seahorse
Links on
the net |
Sea monster of
Norwegian folklore is
the Kraken. Said to
be a mile and a half
in girth, it had a circular
flat shape and many
arms. In 1752 a
Norwegian Bishop
wrote that it
darkened the water
around it with an
inky secretion, indicating
that sailors who
reported it had seen
a giant squid.
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Ferdinand Magellan left
Spain in 1519 to try
to find the Spice
Islands by sailing in
a westerly direction.
He took
5 ships and
260 men.
Sadly Magellan
himself was killed
on the voyage
and only one
ship and 18 men
survived.
It was the first
around the
world voyage. |
The slowest moving fish are the seahorses. The dwarf
seahorse (25mm/1 inch) probably never exceed 0.01 mph/0.016 km/h. |
Animated Knots by
Grog
Real Knots: Knotting, bends,
hitches and knotcraft.
Knots
Gallery |
AquaWeb Fish Resources, for freshwater
and marine aquariums! |
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To escape from an
attacker a sea
cucumber shoots
out strings of sticky,
threads. The attacker
then is occupied
disentangling himself
rather than bothering
with the sea cucumber.
In the Far East some
species of sea
cucumber are caught
for food. The body
of the animal is
dried and used to
make soup. |
The fastest marine
mammals
are the dolphins
and rorquals.
The fastest fish are
the marlins
They have been
measured swimming
at 40-50 mph/64-80 km/h |
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Florida
Aquarium |
Oregon Live --
NW Endangered Fish |
Titanic the
Movie
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FamilyFun:
Sink the Titanic - and More Family Fun
How did the
Titanic sink?
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The most
poisonous fish in
the world is the
death puffer.
Its poison is 200,000
times more
potent than
curare, the plant
poison used by South American natives
to tip their arrows. |
SEAHORSE
PARK |
Fisheye view Cam
Home Page
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"With green sea-flowers
overgrow
like a rock of oceans
own,
Topples o'er the abandon'd
sea
As the tides change
sullenly,
The fisher on his
watery way
Wandering at
close of day,
Will spread his sail
and sieze his oar
Till he pass the
gloomy shore."
From Written in the
Suganean Hills N.Italy
By Shelley |
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Sharks are the most feared fish in the sea, but
they are not all dangerous, nor are they all large. |
Passages of
the Deep - Live Shark Cams... |
shark
clip art including hammerhead sharks and shark icons |
"Dark, deep and cold the
current flows
Unto the sea where
no wind blows,
Seeking the land which
no one knows."
From Plaint
by Ebenezer Elliott |
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Fiona's shark
mania
(not me!!!) |
See them Live on Shark
Cams....
Passages of
the Deep - Live Shark Cams...
SeaWorld Florida
Monterey
Bay Aquarium: Outer Bay Exhibit - Outer Bay Cam
Monterey Bay Aquarium:
White Shark 2006
Channel4000.com
- Shark Cam |
Sharks
and Ocean Animal Pictures and Desktop Wallpaper
Images |
"Bobby Shafto's gone to sea,
Silver buckles on his knee;
He'll come back to marry me,
Bonny Bobby Shafto!
Bobby Shafto's fat and fair,
Combing down his yellow hair;
He's my love for ever more,
Bonny Bobby Shafto!" |
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An octopus'
garden
Media clip to play
or download
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A wav file to play or download |
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Atlantic giant squid
This squid has the
largest eyes of any known animal. The largest
squid ever
discovered had
tentacles of 11
metres long,
and was found
washed ashore in
Newfoundland in 1878. |
A stonefish is perfectly camouflaged. It looks
just like a stone on the seabed, however it is covered in deadly poisonous
spines, which can kill if they are stood on. |
The largest crustacean is the Japanese Spider
Crab. |
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Seaweeds are
underwater plants.
they are usually
brown,red or
green and grip
to the rock by
means of a special foot,
which is like a root, and
is called a holdfast.
Some seaweeds
have air bladders to
help them float in the water-bladderwrack is a seaweed like
this.
Lots of animals live
off them as food.
Seaweeds are used
by humans too, in
fertilizers for farmers,
to make chemicals
used in ice creams
and jellies, and
some are eaten like carrageen in Ireland. |
Deep waters - below 100 m (330 ft). No light filters
down. It is very cold and very dark. Humans cannot survive the pressure here,
unless they are in a submarine.
Predators here have huge mouths and curved teeth to try and stop anything
escaping, as prey may be scarce at this depth. Some even have self - produced
lights to act as lures. |
Pacific Kelp
A single strand of
this seaweed can measure over 60 metres in
length. It grows
very fast as well, and is the biggest sea plant.
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Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society
They do a lot for marine conservation.
Watermark
Enya song
Media clip to play or download |
Orinoco
Flow
A media file to play or download |
The deepest sea exploration ever was made by
the bathyscaphe Trieste in 1960. It dived to almost 11 kilometers, which
is nearly the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
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"I must go down to the sea again
for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
All I ask is a windy day
with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the seagulls
crying."
From Sea Fever
By John Masefield |
Coral Reef
Fishes
Aquatica Waterworlds Virtual Aquarium
Fish Tank Screen Saver
 
Below 400 m (13,000 ft) in the ocean is called the
abyss. Here the sea creatures wait for food and dead animals to drift down
from above. |
Flatfish are shaped just like normal fish when they
first hatch. It is only as they develop that one of their eyes gradually
moves round to the upper side of the body. It then swims using the fins round
the edge of its body.
Deep Sea
World
Tour the deep!!! |
The largest known natural pearl is the "Pearl
of Laotze" weighing 6.37 kg/ 14 lb 1 oz in 1934. It looks like
a human brain, and it has been suggested that a piece of brain coral
got stuck in the clam, who unable to get it out, covered it in
mother-of-pearl to make it less uncomfortable.
The greatest number of pearls found in one shell
is 1716 in 1958 off China.
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A Pearl is formed when a speck
of sand gets inside
the shell of a
clam or oyster.
The oyster or
clam covers it
with layers of a chemical called calcium carbonate
in an effort to
make itself more comfortable. This forms a pearl.
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