Ocean acidification

“The Gift of the Sea” is an oil painting made by Aoki Shigeru in 1904. The painting depicts a scene of nude fishermen walking along a shoreline with their captured haul saddled onto their shoulders. The composition of the work pushes the viewer’s vision to the left side as all figures face and walk towards that direction. This push to the left is also emphasized through the spears of the fishermen, which look like arrows directly informing the viewer to follow its trajectory. Aoki Shigeru…

ships for research use. The warship HMS Challenger was modified to a research ship by having ammunition and 15 guns removed and replaced with laboratories. It was the first expedition of its kind, organized and funded specifically to chart and record ocean features as well as to examine the deep-sea floor more closely than ever before. The expedition was led by Captain George Nares and the scientific work was led by Wyville Thomson and assisted by Sir John Murray. Captain Frank Tourle Thomson…

the amount of garbage that is in the ocean. Out of all the trash found in the ocean the majority of it is pieces of plastic. Mary Crowley is an environmental activist and the captain of the ship Kaisei, which means ocean planet. Crowley is also one of the founders of Project Kaisei. This foundation working to find out how much trash is actually in the ocean, how that is effecting the marine life, and how to reduce the amount of trash going into the ocean. What Crowley finds is shocking, but…

Taking a deep breath of the salty breeze made me realize how sleepy, I am, and how this beach has a strange aroma that reminds me of a powerful sleeping drug. The sounds of crashing waves are slowly diminishing, and I feel exhausted to the bones. As the light starts fading my eyes feel heavy and ponderous. When I awaken my eyes wander to the moon, which took dominance of the sky, and night has befallen. I check my phone and gasp in shock. My fingers dance swiftly on the keyboard of my phone as…

“Oh no!” Grace gasped in horror, realizing what had happened upon seeing the familiar shape and size of the wooden crate. “I saw those floating away from our boat earlier in the storm. The wind must have broken the compartment and knocked the crates out when we were being jerked back and forth earlier.” “Well, we’ll just have to work with what we’ve got,” Chris said in his usual abnormally positive tone. “Plus, we can’t be that far away from land. We were set to arrive in San Francisco today.…

“Please, make it stop,” I pleaded, but the cloaked figure did nothing more than toss his head back and cackle in response. With my hands still covering my ears, I said, “I beg their forgiveness, I –” Before I had the chance to continue, a disembodied hand reached down from above and dragged me up, away from the mist and up through the treetops. It pulled me through a body of water, and I was choking. My heart raced and my lungs burned with the effort of holding my breath. Would this ever end?…

The purpose of this article highlights the uses of natural substances and organism to restore marine tropical coral reef system. Pertaining to the article, the coral reef system is complex and hard to reconstruct without altering the physical conditions and species that rely on it. As this study states, many of the causes for the loss of the coral reefs may be due to natural environmental factors such as the temperature changes but other causes are human influenced, such as tourisms near coral…

BSD vests, regulators, bulky air tanks and all- onto the boat. I turn my eyes to the blue abyss ahead of me, but it is not the soft light blue-green that we find at the shallow end but the deeper, more somber blue that represents the enigma of the ocean and the journey that lies ahead of me. Then the boat stops moving and it's time to get ready for our first dive. We have to go through such a simple routine of setting up and checking our and our partners gear, but one small mistake and you or…

Why Ocean Exploration is Important We live in a day of age where there are so many speculations about space, if there are others out there and the threat that could occur if aliens were to invade our world. There are so many unknowns in the universe that it does need to be studied; however it does not need to be the only focus. Where else can this funding be implemented? Right here on Earth focusing on studying our oceans. Even though the ocean covers the majority of Earth there is very little…

Why are the oceans in trouble? They can no longer absorb the damage inflicted by the 7 billion people on Earth. Over many decades, the human race has overfished key species to near extinction, and polluted them with carbon dioxide emissions, toxic chemicals, garbage, and discarded plastics. A groundbreaking new study, recently published in Science, warned that our oceans are being irreparably damaged by human activity and could be on "the precipice of a major extinction event." Coral reefs,…