The boundaries of this ocean were proposed to the International Hydrographic Organization in However, not all countries agree on the proposed boundaries, so this has yet to be ratified by members of the IHO. The U. While not directly responsible for determining them, the IHO works with the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names to standardize names on an international scale. The IHO recognized the Southern Ocean in its guidelines but repealed that designation in , citing controversy.
It has deliberated on the matter since, but has yet to receive full agreement from its members to reinstate the Southern Ocean. The U. Board on Geographic Names, however, has used the name since A version of this story appears in the October issue of National Geographic magazine.
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Plastic pollution makes its way to the ocean in many directions by getting into street drains, rivers, blowing in the wind, or from fishing boats. Pacific Ocean Is our oldest of all oceans and the deepest of all the bodies of water. Mariana Trench is located in the western pacific ocean. Just miles east of the Mariana Trench is our deepest natural point in the World called the Mariana Islands. The deepest depth is know to be 36, feet and in 10, metres. Hopefully, we will be able to protect the ocean from the effects of humans feet print.
Together with education we can clean up the messes we have caused from plastic pollution and oil spills. So much ocean left to discover below our oceans I can only dream we as humans think of our animals safety as well as humans as we do eat fish of our sea. Clean water is blue because water absorbs and reflects the blue sky as light bounces red light, red orange yellow, light spectrum of reflections of light as a significant to lowering sediments as for taking care of our wild rivers protective sediments runoff destroying our ocean.
Ocean Blue feels beach cleanups conjointly facilitate the long wavelength of the blue color by lowering floating ocean plastics have to be compelled to facilitate keep our ocean blue by protecting clean water. The blue color Lower floating sediments that may lower the short wavelengths of lightweight of sunshine spectrum that permits our ocean blue wavelengths reflections of sunshine to be the blue light color.
Therefore removing plastic floating in our ocean helps permit blue ocean water and our water molecules of safe of blue water. Join be a part of Ocean Blue Project beach cleanups during a native volunteer beach cleanup to assist defend clean water and save our ocean.
Take a look at Ocean currents maps, press the blue button below! Several rare and threatened species of marine life like sea turtles, whales, dolphins, manatees, seals, sea lions abound in the Atlantic. Frequent oil spills, municipal sewage pollution, industrial pollution, bycatch during irresponsible and outdated fishing activities all threaten the marine life in the Atlantic Ocean. The Eurasian landmass lies to the north of the Indian Ocean, Australia to the east, Africa to the west and the Southern Ocean and Antarctica to the south.
The depth in this region is 8, m. The Indian Ocean region experiences a monsoon type of climate. Cyclones are common during the summer season. This ocean is also the warmest ocean in the world. The warm tropical waters of the ocean support a great diversity of life. The abundance of phytoplankton and aquatic flora supports a complex food chain. Thus, the Indian Ocean offers lucrative fishing grounds and fish, especially tuna and shrimp caught here, are sold to markets across the world.
However, despite this great biodiversity, climate change is taking its toll on the Indian Ocean ecosystem. Overfishing in the waters is also disturbing the marine life in this part of the ocean. Spanning an area of ,, square km, the Pacific Ocean accounts for one-third of the total surface area of the planet. Large parts of the Pacific remain unexplored due to its great depths. However, in the relatively shallow waters off the coast of Australia and New Zealand, petroleum and natural gas deposits have been discovered.
Pearl extraction is also common in the Pacific's waters. A large variety of fish like tuna, salmon, swordfish, herring, snapper, etc.
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