World Ocean

Charles Clover addresses the serious issue of overfishing and the impacting is having around various oceans around the world. Clover argues that the current fishing practices and illegal fishing along with the use of high tech equipments, are reducing fish stocks significantly, for larger quantities of fish are being taken out of the ocean at a rate that is impossible for fish stocks to recover in number and survive. He analyzes the situation showing how the fish crisis is affecting today and…

Shocking The Ocean. Over two thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; less than a third is taken up by land. However, the surface of the ocean is polluted. The book Oceans a Visual Guide defined pollution as “The introduction of substance, material or unwanted heat energy from human activities that adversely affect an ecosystem” (Hutchinson and Hawkins 210). Sylvia Earle, an American marine biologist, explore, and author has a Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy, mentioned…

Fierce Fish The ocean is like a crowded city full of people. Everyone is walking around going to their destinations. An ecosystem is all living things (plants and animals) and nonliving things that live in a specific area. The man-of-war jellyfish lives in the busiest area of all, the neritic zone. The neritic zone is packed of ocean animals because it gets the perfect portion of sunlight, it’s a good temperature, and not lots of pressure. The neritic zone is located on the continental shelf.…

Composer’s Statement The ocean is one of the most important thing we have on earth. We use it to fish, travel across, swim in, etc. The entire ecosystems around the world relies on the ocean in order to keep going for the longest of times. Unfortunately, us humans are taking advantage of the ocean too far for all of our needs. We’re over-fishing many areas in the world what predators feed on, and they’re declining fast. We’re dumping too much trash into the ocean, where animals and plants…

The view of the ocean since the middle of the 20th century had been one of hope and prosperity for feeding the growing human population. Many believed it to be an inexhaustible pool of food and resources, and so efforts to create newer, more efficient methods of obtaining these resources had sprung into action. Somewhere along that time and now that image changed to a giant trashcan for people to dispose of their sewage, chemicals, and garbage. Two consequences of this transition, mercury…

preservation of our oceans around the world. Pugh’s purpose of this article is to describe and persuade readers about larger issue at hand while informing readers to the health concerns of the oceans around the world. What he finds later is that he seriously underestimated the true severity of this issue all around the world. Pugh’s supports his ideas by giving specific examples of what he experienced firsthand while doing these swims all around the world from the different oceans he swam…

planet is covered by water more than a mile deep. The deep sea is the largest habitat on earth and is largely unexplored. More people have traveled into space than have traveled to the deep ocean realm....” -The Blue Planet Seas of Life. It is hard to believe that most of our planet is made up of vast oceans, practically right under our nose, yet so much is still unknown about it. To think that we have come across so much information, and made so many advances in regards to space, rather than…

The world has 7 oceans and they are all being neglected in some way or another, some people try to save them but there's only so much they can do. The oceans have suffered at the hands of mankind for millions of years. The chemical change in the water is causing hundreds of animals to wash up on the shores died. On a microscopic level the ocean have been dying for a long time but most people never noticed until something on a large scale died. The oceans may be damaged beyond repair, but…

its not just the ocean water that is turning acidic. Our coral reefs are dying, and soon some of the sea creatures will come down with the rest of the Ocean. As industrialization release Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere, the ocean is taking in one fourth of the CO2 in a natural process. As the CO2 is in the Ocean water (H2O) it begins to dissolve, but it creates Carbonic acid (H2CO3) as a result. And in the future the water will start to turn dull from the Carbonic acid. “Ocean acidification…

After watching Rob Stewarts film Sharkwater I have gained a keen insight into the cruelty and lucrative trade that surrounds our precious oceans. Threats arrive to the ecology of the world when humans use poor fishing methods like bottom trawling and intentionally hunting down very specific animals in astounding numbers (Kempster). This is because methods like “finning” sharks take an unnatural amount of sharks out of the natural food cycle that has been so delicately crafted over millions of…