Pacific Ocean

The plot of the movie starts by Pi making a meal for himself and the narrator in his kitchen of his house talking about the story.he explains to the narrator how he got his name and why he changed it to Pi. Pi explains how he met Christ in the mountains when he was bored. Pi gets caught trying to feed Richard Parker as a young boy. Pi sees anavi during her dance class and falls in love. Pi's father sells the zoo and takes him and his family on a freighter heading to Canada. The freighter ran…

to predict change in the weather, coasts, and oceans. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also works to protect and manage marine and coastal ecosystems (“About our Agency”, 2018). Earle is one of the first people to make use of modern SCUBA gear, identified new species of marine life, and found new underwater landscapes such as underwater dunes (“Sylvia A. Earle,” 2017) (Yeh, 2018). Earle gave a TED Talk in 2009 about how the ocean and the animals within it are slowly…

The Blacktip Reef Shark is native to the tropical coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Blacktip is listed under kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class Chondrichthyes, order Carcharhiniformes, family Carcharhinidae, and genus Carcharhinus. This shark was given its name based off of the blacktip at the end of its dorsal fin. This fin appears very vivid in the shark’s youth, but fades with age. The Blacktip Reef Shark will most likely grow to be 4.9 feet and weigh roughly 40 pounds,…

The Dam Problem with the Decline of Pacific Northwest Salmon For generations upon generations, native Salmon have played a crucial part in the culture of the Pacific Northwest. Native American culture has been influenced and built around salmon. Today, salmon populations are at an all-time low and populations are still plummeting. Many subspecies have gone extinct. Throughout the next several pages, I am going to explore what salmon are, how they have been used, what led to their decline, what…

Ocean pollution is one of the worlds worst types of pollution. What can we do to stop it? Imagine drifting through the sea, looking down and seeing the vast ocean full of trash and dead fish all the way to the horizon. The smell of death fills the air as a large wave, full of garbage, comes crashing down towards you and your boat. Sadly this is not the future, nor an imaginary place, it is the world we live in today. This place I describe is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is…

have done studies in labs but never has a study like this taken place. Millions of gallons of radioactive water was dumped into the ocean by a nuclear plant in japan. Now scientist have a mass area of ocean filled with radiation. Now they have to find out how will this affect life in the ocean, and how to save it. Since Fukushima dumped the radiation in the ocean scientists have done many comprehensive studies on the marine life. Through these studies they found that many of the seals and…

collective, or the human race. Does that simple rule of cleaning up messes still hold true? Oceans take up a large portion of the earth’s surface, and were once seen as an all-encompassing, limitless reservoirs, quite able to bear the brunt of the human race. This, however, is not true as is becoming increasingly apparent. Over a few decades, humans have managed to dump tons upon tons of garbage into the ocean. Around 80 percent of marine litter originates on land, and most of that is plastic.…

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 ocean makes up 71% of the earth's surface, it being the home to over a billion of marine life. Ocean life is currently at a serious risk due to being exposed to oil spills, plastic pollution, and acidification. Every year hundreds of millions gallons of oil are spilled into the ocean. These oil spills not only cost millions of dollars to clean up but also affect all ocean life. These ocean oil spills can cause severe damage to the animals living there. The fish can end up with liver damage,…

Hypothesis and Objection Because it may take a couple of years for the trash to collect in areas, and due to the constant water moving, I believe we need to observe this over two years. Not much is documented in regards to water samples in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. My hypothesis after checking water samples, oxygen level and phytoplankton levels, is: a decrease in oxygen, which creates dead zones and decreases in phytoplankton and nutrients, with an increase in bacteria and other toxins. …