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  2. World's largest coral found 'hiding in plain sight' near ...

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    The world's largest coral has been discovered by a National Geographic expedition to the Solomon Islands.

  3. Bon voyage to the SS United States - AOL

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    But the massive ocean liner, which is bigger than the Titanic, had a massive problem. The SS United States travels down New York's Hudson River as it begins its first voyage to Europe in July 1952 ...

  4. Spiny creature with fins like a bird wing found swimming off ...

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    The bird wing scorpionfish sticks to much deeper waters, according to the study, and surrounds just a few islands in the Pacific Ocean. Fiji and the Wallis and Futuna Islands are off the east ...

  5. Charles J. Moore - Wikipedia

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    Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education [4] in Long Beach, California.. In 2008 the Foundation co-sponsored the JUNK Raft project, to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean", and specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot-long (9.1 m ...

  6. Friendly Floatees spill - Wikipedia

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    Seattle oceanographers Curtis Ebbesmeyer and James Ingraham, who were working on an ocean surface current model, began to track their progress. The mass release of 28,800 objects into the ocean at one time offered significant advantages over the standard method of releasing 500–1000 drift bottles. The recovery rate of objects from the Pacific ...

  7. Biological oceanography - Wikipedia

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    Biological oceanography is the study of how organisms affect and are affected by the physics, chemistry, and geology of the oceanographic system.Biological oceanography may also be referred to as ocean ecology, in which the root word of ecology is Oikos (oικoσ), meaning ‘house’ or ‘habitat’ in Greek.

  8. Record ocean temps likely cause of Minnesota's weird ... - AOL

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    To understand the record-breaking warmth this winter in Minnesota, scientists look to the oceans. For the sixth straight year, surface temperatures of the world's oceans set a new heat record in ...

  9. Cargo-ship owner to pay US $102 million over Baltimore ... - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The owner and operator of the cargo ship that struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, killing six people, have agreed to pay $102 million to the federal ...