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Location, comments Unknown man August 1640 Unknown, possibly Bull shark: According to Jesuit priest Father Copley, a unknown English-born laborer went into the St. Mary's River, Maryland to cool off after a hot day, a reported "huge fish" came and killed him shortly after. [1] [2] [3] Alexander Sampson: c. 1730: Unconfirmed, presumed great ...
Sonar mapping of the Challenger Deep by the DSSV Pressure Drop employing a Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multibeam echosounder system (26 April–4 May 2019). Challenger Deep (CD) is the deepest known point in the Earth's seabed hydrosphere, a slot-shaped valley in the floor of Mariana Trench, with depths exceeding 10,900 meters. [1]
Location Date 1. 72,000 2003 European heatwave: Europe: 2003 2. 56,000 2010 Russian heat wave: Russia: 2010 3. 41,072 [15] 1911 France heat wave France: 1911 4. 24,501 2022 European heatwaves: Europe 2022 5. 9,500 1901 eastern United States heat wave: United States 1901 6. 5,000–10,000 1988–1990 North American drought: United States 1988 7 ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data cited by Live Science records that gators killed 10 people in the southeastern US between 1999 and 2019, a period in which five times as many ...
During summer, the western Indian Ocean is home to one of the largest concentrations of marine phytoplankton blooms in the world. Increased warming in the Indian Ocean enhances ocean stratification, which prevents nutrient mixing in the euphotic zone where ample light is available for photosynthesis. Thus, primary production is constrained and ...
In what is considered the largest documented wildlife mortality event in the modern era, a heating ocean wiped out half of Alaska’s common murre seabird population, a new study found.
The largest male white shark ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH was spotted in Florida waters. The shark, named Contender, was first tagged and released by OCEARCH on Jan. 17.
Tampomas II – On 27 January the ocean liner, carrying more people than its capacity limit of 1,137, sank in the Java Sea after a fire and explosion. At least 580 people were killed and 515 rescued. [19] 580 [citation needed] 1920 France: SS Afrique – The passenger ship sank on 9 January in the Bay of Biscay in bad weather. It was carrying ...