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Why Some Seas Have No Tides At All
Stand on a beach in Split, Croatia, at sunrise, then come back at sunset. The water will look almost exactly the same. Now do the same thing on the coast…
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Eugenie Clark: The Shark Lady Who Changed Marine Biology
Most people who fear sharks have never met one. Eugenie Clark met thousands of them. As a result, she came away convinced they were among the most misunderstood animals on…
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James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger Dive Explained
On March 26, 2012, a filmmaker climbed into a steel sphere. It was barely wider than a bathtub. He rode it down to the bottom of the ocean, alone. That…
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Robert Ballard Discoveries: The Man Who Found the Titanic
For seventy three years, the Titanic sat somewhere on the floor of the North Atlantic, and nobody knew exactly where. Then, in the early hours of September 1, 1985, a…
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Sylvia Earle: The Marine Biologist Who Redefined Deep Diving
A three-year-old girl gets knocked flat by a wave on the New Jersey shore in 1938, and instead of running from the ocean, she decides she wants to know it…
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Famous Ocean Explorers Everyone Should Know
The ocean covers more than seventy percent of our planet, yet we have mapped less of its floor than we have mapped the surface of Mars. That gap between curiosity…
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How Light Behaves Underwater: The Science of Ocean Color Zones
Dive just ten feet below the surface and hold up a red cut on your hand. It will not look red anymore. It will look almost grey or black, as…
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Why the Ocean Has Waves: The Real Science Explained
Stand on any beach at sunrise and you will notice something strange. The water never stops moving. Even on a still, windless morning, small ripples keep arriving on the sand…
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Underwater Sound Travel: How Sound Moves Through the Ocean Compared to Air
Picture a diver tapping a metal tank a mile away. On land, you would barely catch a faint echo. Underwater, though, that same tap can reach another diver clearly, and…
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Ocean Freezing Point Explained: Why the Sea Freezes Differently Than Fresh Water
Stand at the edge of a frozen lake in January and you will see a smooth sheet of solid ice. Stand at the edge of the Arctic Ocean on that…