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From Jetpacking to Skurfing: 9 Unusual Ways to Enjoy the Ocean
Why snorkel when you can strap on a jetpack, hop on an electric surfboard or “fly” underwater?
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WATCH: Drone Captures Rare Footage of Flying Mobula Rays
Sitting in a boat amid breaching mobula rays has been likened to sitting in a pot of popcorn as the kernels explode into the air.
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How Can We Clean Up the Oceans?
Plastic is a huge problem in the oceans, but engineers and research groups are working on how to deal with it. Hank describes some of the leading proposed solutions.
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Squid, Octopus, and Cuttlefish more Abundant: Good News in the ocean?
Cephalopods have become more and more abundant over the past 60 years, scientists say. But what does that mean for the rest of the ocean?
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Watch Buoys Dance With the Flow in This Ocean Current Visualization
The mesmerizing white dots illustrate the movement of more than 17,000 research buoys.
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Toxic 'red tide' in Chile prompts investigation of salmon farming
Algal bloom ‘of biblical proportions’ has led to protests and health emergency as concerns raised over dumping of rotting salmon in ocean
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Global Warming Is Starving West Coast Waters of Oxygen
Just west of Los Angeles, decimated populations of spiny rockfish rummage for prey among bush-like corals. Cold currents from deep valleys wash nutrients between the Channel Islands, fertilizing plants that are eaten by fish. The fish are eaten by dolphins and pelicans and served with fries to diners watching ocean sunsets from Venice Beach.
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Spectacular new jellyfish shows just how little we know about Earth's oceans
Explorers identified a small jellyfish called hydromedusa, likely part of the genus Crossota.
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Stunning Jellyfish Captured by NOAA's Okeanos Explorer
Video of a beautiful jellyfish captured at a depth of 2.3 miles (3,700 meters) during Dive 4 of the Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition by NOAA's Okeanos Explorer.
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New Ocean Cleanup Array Set To Deploy This Year — Potential To Save Our Oceans From Microscopic Plastic
21 year old Boyan Slat is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup and inventor of the Ocean Cleanup Array; one of the worlds best (if not only) solutions to combat the enormous amount of plastic in the ocean. Currently the Pacific Ocean is home to a mass of plastic pollution the size of Texas, and we add about 8 million tons to the ocean every year. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it and other garbage patches like it are not actually visible by Satellite or even boat.
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Spectacular footage shows dolphins fleeing orca ambush
A whale watcher caught on camera the incredible moment a pod of about 1,000 dolphins fled an attack by orcas.
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Burning fossil fuels is responsible for most sea-level rise since 1970
Global average sea level has risen by about 17 cm between 1900 and 2005, but we didn't know how much of that was due to us, until now.
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Scientists discover an ocean 400 miles beneath our feet that could fill our oceans three times over
After decades of theorizing and searching, scientists are reporting that they've finally found a massive reservoir of water in the Earth's mantle -- a reservoir so vast that could fill the Earth's oceans three times over.
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The North Atlantic Blob: A Marine Cold Wave
What the N Atlantic "cold blob" says about 21st-century climate--and this year's hurricanes
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Australia Is Letting the Great Barrier Reef Die Over a Lot of Coal
The Great Barrier Reef is dying, and only politicians can save it. By Sarah Emerson.
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The Future of Technology Is Hiding on the Ocean Floor
In March 1968, a Soviet Golf II submarine carrying nuclear ballistic missiles exploded and sank 1,500 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii.
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7 Things We Don't Know About the Ocean
The ocean covers 70% of the planet, but humans still don’t know very much about it. In this episode, Hank discusses seven mysterious ocean topics.
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Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly
The computer program, which accurately modeled past sea levels for the first time, predicts up to three feet of sea level rise from Antarctica by 2100. By Justin Gillis.
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Loggerhead, Right Whale Breeding Grounds Are Entirely Covered By Atlantic Blasting Area
Significant portions of the habitats for loggerhead turtles, right whales, and many other species would be impacted if the Obama administration approves permits for seismic testing. By Samantha Page.
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Never-before-seen life spotted by Hawaiian deep-sea expedition
Rare dives down to depths of 4000 metres have yielded evidence of new lifeforms and unusual landforms and rocks that will help the study of ocean volcanoes. By Chelsea Whyte.
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