Plankton Issue

A red tide is a phenomenon brought on by algae blooms. These algae are phytoplankton that are single celled and live in clumps close to the surface. The red comes from photosynthetic acessory pigments used to help the photosynthetic process when the algae live in low light. These are harmful for the marine animals that live in the oceans because the algae steal the steal the oxygen out of the water due to the low life span and high rate of decompostition. The also block sunlight from reaching plants and algae blooms are also a sign of polluted water meaning something chemical is also going on.

Submarines, Secrets, and Spies

The Thresher in 1963 was a nucelar war sub created by the US for defense agains the soviets during the cold war. On April 9th of 1963 the Thresher sank in Corsair Canyon of the coast of Boston killing the crew of 129. The official reports suggest that the thresher due to inadequate maiteneance had a leak occur onboard the ship and as the cabin filled with water the sub sank until it passed the crush level and imploded from the force of the water on the ship. The remains of the Thresher were found by a bottom searching sub call Trieste.

The Scorpion in 1968

Leaving the Medditeranean sea in 1968 the scorpion is said to have accidentaly by a mechanical error shot a torpedo out of its ammunition holding cells. With the torpedo having no other locked target it locked itself of the Scorpion and the sub, by word of navy, was hit with its own torpedo.


With the Glomer exploration a russian sub carrying nuclear missles vanished on a path to the united states. Using the radio wires the US had installed the lake allowed them to triangulate where the sub had sank. The navy called upon the expertise of Howard Hughes to build an exploration ship that would have the ability to lift the russian sub out of the ocean. So that other countries didnt find out about the knowledge that the US possessed the nevy told the public they were going on a mission to collect minerals off of the ocean floor for financial gain. Once other countries found out about this information they started building their own ships to collect ground minerals providing the optimum cover. As the Glomer explorer went out to sea to collect the russian sub and they dropped the claw to pick it up it took 2 days for the football sized claw to reach the sub where it started the lift back to the hollow hiding hull of the boat. On the passage up the claw slipped off of the sub and caused a nuclear war head to sink slowly to the bottom. Their was no nuclear explosion.

As the warhead sank if i was on the Glomer i would have been so petrified waiting to see if the ship would be taken by a nuclear explosion.

Free Dayy!!!!!!!

The Clown Fish


There are 28 species of clown fish. They are orange, yellow, maroon and many other colors. The most common clown fish - and the one that looks most like Nemo - is the percula clown fish which is bright orange with white stripes. Clown fish are between two and five inches long.

Clown fish live on the ocean floor. They are found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Clown fish and anemones hang out all the time and help each other out. Anemones are fish-eating animals that look like underwater flowers and have hundreds of poisonous tentacles. Clown fish find most of their food by mooching off the anemone. Clown fish wait until the anemone paralyzes and eats a fish, then helps itself to the bits which the anemone doesn't eat. Clown fish avoid being harmed by the anemones by swimming a funky dance around the anemone's poisonous tentacles. Clowns allow the tentacles to graze their bodies until they build up an immunity to the poison. In exchange for getting food from the anemones, the clown fish clean the anemones by eating dead tentacles. Clowns also protect anemones from predators.

Hammerhead Shark

Hammerhead sharks are sharks named for their lateerally shaped head of the nine speciecs known they can  range in size from 3ft - 20ft and 6.6lb - 1300lb. The shape of their head and the positioning of the eyes allows 360 degree vision on the verticla plane allowing them to see above and below themselves at all times. Hammer heads have small mouths and do alot of bottom feeding. During the day these sharks form schools sometimes in upwards of 100 and at night beocme solitary hunters.Reproduction only occurs once a year for hammerhead sharks and usually occurs with the male shark biting the female shark violently until she agrees to mate with him.The hammerhead sharks exhibit a viviparous mode of reproduction with females giving birth to live young. Like other sharks, fertilization is internal with the male transferring sperm to the female through one of two intromittent organs called claspers. The developing embryos are at first sustained by a yolk sac. When the supply of yolk is exhausted, the depleted yolk sac transforms into a structure analogous to a mammalian placenta (called a "yolk sac placenta" or "pseudoplacenta"), through which the mother delivers sustenance until birth. Once the baby sharks are born, they are not taken care of by the parents in any way. There is usually a litter of 12 to 15 pups; except for the Great Hammerhead which births litters of 20 to 40 pups. These baby sharks huddle together and swim toward warmer water and stay together until they are older and big enough to be on their own.Hammerhead sharks are known to eat a large range of items including fish, squid, octopus, crustaceans, and other hammerhead sharks. Stingrays are a particular favorite. These sharks are found many times swimming along the bottom of the ocean, stalking their prey. Their unique head is used as a weapon when hunting down prey. The hammerhead shark uses its head to pin down stingrays and eats the ray when the ray is weak and in shock.

As of 2009 there have been 34 attacks reported with 17 being unprovoked and 1 being fatal. To help prevent shark attack use the following steps

avoiding the water at dawn, dusk, or night, when sharks tend to feed;

avoiding areas where sharks generally locate themselves, such as murky waters, sandbars, and steep drop-offs

avoiding swimming alone, always being near a group of people, and if possible, avoiding being at the edge of the group;

refraining from excess splashing or movement;

preventing pets from entering the water;

avoiding shiny jewelry, tan lines and bright clothing, all of which can attract sharks;

avoiding entering water if bleeding from an open wound or if menstruating;

avoiding areas where prey animals of sharks live, for instance seals;

avoiding areas where the remains of fish have been discarded into the water, such as near fishermen cleaning their catch.

avoiding waters contaminated with sewage or runoff and areas frequented by sport or commercial fisherman

Chemosynthesis

Most life on Earth is dependent upon photosynthesis, the process by which plants make energy from sunlight. However, at hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean a unique ecosystem has evolved in the absense of sunlight, and its source of energy is completely different: chemosynthesis. Chemosynthesis is the process by which certain microbes create energy by mediating chemical reactions. So the animals that live around hydrothermal vents make their living from the chemicals coming out of the seafloor in the vent fluids! Because they are a local food source, hydrothermal vents typically have high biomass, in stark contrast to the very sparse distribution of animals outside of vent areas where animals are dependent on food dropping down from above. Chemosynthetic microbes provide the foundation for biological colonization of vents. Chemosynthetic microbes live on or below the seafloor, and even within the bodies of other vent animals as symbionts. Where microbial mat covers the seafloor around vents, grazers such as snails, limpets, and scaleworms eat the mat, and predators come to eat the grazers. Tubeworms flourish in small clumps, waving in the warm fluids. A typical picture of an active hydrothermal vent is therefore one with shimmering warm hydrothermal fluids, tubeworms and many other vent species, all densely clustered around the vent, with white microbial mat material covering the surrounding area.

Oceanography

oceanography is the study of the ocean physicly, chemically, biologically. ocea
nography is important because it allows the opportunity to study the depths of our planet thatcannot be reached by the human alone like the mariana trench. studying the ocean through the tools of oceanography can also bring to fruition substances that can be used for such thing as medicine alternative energy and alternative food sources for when the natural subsatnces of our terrestrial world become evermore quickly extinct. this study opens all new opportunities to expand the livability of our planet for not only the human race but other animals as well.