Similarly, in coastal regions where rivers dilute the sea, salinity is somewhat lower than in other oceanic areas.
Two divers off the coast of France peer into Denise, a small, two-man diving saucer that is part of Jacques Cousteau's oceanic ship Calypso.
Danger of "runaway warming", perhaps spurred by release of oceanic methane hydrates.
Human activity has caused profound changes to the climate, biodiversity, oceanic acidity and greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere.
The direct economic loss resulted in by oceanic disasters in the whole year is about 10 billion yuan, with 401 people dead and missing. The affected population hit 14 million ones.
Jellies are a desirable seafood alternative because they haven't been overfished like so many other oceanic sources of protein.
By 2011 scientists aboard a Japanese deep-sea drilling ship called Chikyu hope to start drilling through a thin piece of oceanic crust to reach Earth's mantle.
Another oceanic resident, the quahog clam (Arctica islandica), is thought to be one of the longest lived metazoans of all.
An oceanic whitetip shark and diver swim in the Bahamas.
Cooling in Europe is unlikely due to global warming, but oceanic changes alter weather patterns and lead to higher than average sea level rise in the eastern US and UK.
Some experts believe that Marine dysoxia may be responsible for major oceanic extinctions.
He hopes to drill cores that date back thousands of years at the Chukchi Sea margin, providing a detailed history of interaction between oceanic currents and ice.
North Atlantic populations of the oceanic white tip have declined by 70 percent, and hammerheads by more than 99 percent.
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