Greg's Submarine Cable Map is an attempt to consolidate all the available information about the undersea communications infrastructure. The initial data was harvested from Wikipedia, and further information was gathere by simply googling and transcribing as much data as possible into a useful format, namely a rich geocoded format.
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The first map of sea-ice thickness from ESA’s CryoSat mission was revealed today at the Paris Air and Space Show. This new information is set to change our understanding of the complex relationship between ice and climate.
From an altitude of just over 700 km and reaching unprecedented latitudes of 88º, CryoSat has spent the last seven months delivering precise measurements to study changes in the thickness of Earth’s ice.
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In 1960 a bathyscaphe took two men to the deepest point on Earth. In 2010 that manned descent to the Mariana Trench—still unmatched—won co-pilot Don Walsh the Hubbard Medal, National Geographic’s top honor for research and discovery. Yet it remains just a single, vital drop in an age of ocean exploration.
The secrets of the deep have emerged from research done far below the waves—and from far above them. Oceanographer Walter Munk deems the satellite TOPEX/Poseidon’s 13-year mapping of the sea surface, showing how currents affect climate, “the most successful ocean experiment of all times.”
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This infographic designed by Gavin Potenza for The Atlantic. Mapping out how endangered North American right whales encounter heavy shipping traffic. The map displays the whale's migration routes, right whale sightings, real-time ship locations, and several other factors.
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There's motion in the ocean, but where does it coming from? Waves are a beloved part of nature, but few know how they're actually formed. Some are big some are small, some are short, some are tall. So, if you've been wondering how the waves at your local beach are formed, look no further.
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The largest cruise ship in the world, Oasis of the Seas, arrived in December 2009 and along with her sister ship, Allure of the Seas (due this year), iglucruise.com decided to trawl through their databanks to find out just how enormous cruise ships are these days and the kind of consumption on board.
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Piracy has existed for as long as the oceans have been used in commerce. It remains a big threat today. According to the International Maritime Bureau, the international sea piracy situation grows far worse each year. The Bureau reported a 20% increase in pirate attacks in 2003 alone. Learn more about the threat of piracy.
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The Russian Navy comprises the Northern Fleet, the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Russian Baltic Fleet and the Russian Caspian Flotilla
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"Aquatic Dead Zones" or "dead sea areas" is the following map (based on data from the MODIS sensor aboard the Aqua satellite), released today by NASA Earth Observatory , shows an overview of "dead sea areas." Following the reasoning used in drawing the map, is taken as the dead area occupied by waters in which the ability to hold dissolved oxygen is so low that hardly a marine organism survive in them.
The size and number of marine dead zones—areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can’t survive—have grown explosively in the past half-century. Red circles on this map show the location and size of many of our planet’s dead zones. Black dots show where dead zones have been observed, but their size is unknown.via earthobservatory.nasa.gov