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On January 19, 2021, NOAA issued the Final Instruction for expansion of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. This action protects 14 additional reefs and banks, slightly adjusts the boundaries of the sanctuary's original three banks and expands the sanctuary from 56 square miles (145 km 2) to a total of 160 square miles (415 km 2).
It has a width of 9 m (30 ft), a draft of 1.5 m (4.9 ft), and displaces 78.5 tons. The ship is designed to have the space and equipment for up to twenty divers, including a recompression chamber and three dive showers. On board is a single Polaris RHIB and two lifeboats. The ship has a crew of 14 and can accommodate up to 25 passengers.
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The heart of the sanctuary is Stellwagen Bank, an underwater plateau stretching 19 miles (17 nmi; 31 km) north to south, and 6 miles (5.2 nmi; 9.7 km) across at its widest near its southern end. The bank is, on average, 100 to 120 feet (30 to 37 m) below the surface, while surrounding waters to the west are over 300 feet (91 m) deep and to the ...
Diver working on Nemo's Garden. Scuba diving is an adventurous sport and before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, it was practiced in Italy by more than 100.000 people per year. After the pandemic only 20% of diving centres have registered no loss in profit, 60% has estimated a loss between 25 and 50% and the rest have had a loss of 50% or more.
Cortes Bank is a shallow seamount (a barely submerged island) in the North Pacific Ocean off California. It is 96 miles (83 nmi; 154 km) southwest of San Pedro in Los Angeles , 111 miles (96 nmi; 179 km) west of Point Loma in San Diego , and 47 miles (41 nmi; 76 km) southwest of San Clemente Island in Los Angeles County .
Thomas Joseph Lonergan (born 28 December 1964) [1] and Eileen Cassidy Lonergan (née Hains; born 3 March 1969) [2] were a married American couple who were unintentionally abandoned in the Coral Sea off Australia's northeast coast on 25 January 1998 during a group scuba-diving trip aboard MV Outer Edge. The boat crew did not note their absences ...
1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. [1] is a floral and foods gift retailer and distribution company in the United States. The company's focus, except for Mother's Day and Valentine's Day , is on gift baskets. They also use the name 1-800-Baskets.com . [ 1 ]