SOME OCEAN INFORMATION
The oceans cover nearly 71% of the earth's surface. Below the sea surface are mountains as rugged and imposing as any on land, extensive featureless plains, and trenches deeper than the world's highest mountains. Much of this sea floor is completely unexplored and holds mysteries to delight even the most jaundiced observer. The oceans contain a tremendous diversity of organisms adapted to a great range of temperature, salinity, and pressure. In places, the sea teems with life, while other regions are "deserts". All of these factors combine to create a force so great in its illusory mystique, divine malignancy, and rapturous seclusion that no comparison is worthy of the the task. Among other things, the earth's wave patterns and shoreline features all are intimately connected to the ocean. For further information on this relation, click here.
Perhaps the joyful ramifications of such an awe-inspiring expanse is best captured in the words of Thoreau. "All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all of its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from seaweed to a sailors' yarns or a fish story. In this element the animal and vegetable kingdoms meet and are strangely mingled."
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