Sentences with phrase «by sea cucumbers»
According to MIT's Technology review, a new material inspired by sea cucumbers «switches rapidly between rigid and flexible states.»
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Make the sauce by whisking 1/4 cup olive oil, minced cucumber, dill, green onion, and 1/2 tsp of sea salt together in a bowl.
By NIGEL SITWELL Unless you are an Asian gourmet it may be difficult to get excited about sea cucumbers.
Two years ago, in a kind of crater off the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 10,000 feet down, a team led by Myriam Sibuet of the French Research Institute for Ocean Exploitation, discovered a spectacular cold seep with a vast field of clams and mussels, blue shrimp, purple sea cucumbers, and six - foot - long tube worms growing in bushes next to mounds of gas hydrate.
When threatened, the sea cucumber stiffens its skin by flooding the network with proteins that bind the fibers together, forming a solid structure.
But very often while teaching PADI Open Water courses or diving with first time divers we get the full finger point and a shrug of the shoulders when passing by these strange sea cucumbers.
Location: about 600 meters opposite to the southern end of Bulabog Beach Access: either by boat or from the shore Experience: all divers Depth: 5 - 20 meters Visibility: up to 20 meters Current: low - moderate Characteristics: reef drift dive with sea snakes, sea cucumbers, sea stars, moray eels, nudibranchs, anemones, soft corals, hard corals
Access: about 15 minutes by boat Experience: beginner, training dives, advanced diver Depth: 5 - 15 meters Visibility: 10 - 30 meters Current: low - moderate Best months: November - May Characteristics: reef with see grass, soft corals, hard corals, stony corals, leather corals, sea cucumbers, anemones good for night dives and snorkeling
Location: in the northwest of Boracay Island Access: about 15 minutes by boat from White Beach Experience: all divers Depth: 7 - 24 meters Visibility: up to 20 meters Current: low Characteristics: series of walls which are connected to Yapak with sea cucumbers, sea stars, soft corals, stone corals, moray eels, stingrays
Location: southeast of Boracay, in the Tabon Strait Access: about 25 minutes by boat from White Beach Experience: advanced divers Depth: 5 - 20 meters Visibility: up to 30 meters Current: strong Characteristics: 2 dive sites (small Laurel and big Laurel) with walls, tunnel, reef, many fish species, sponges, sea cucumbers, sea stars, sea snakes, nudibranchs, soft corals, hard corals, black corals, leathery corals good for photography
But across much of Asia, the creatures are a staple in stir - fry, soups and stews and are so sought after that they are in imminent danger of being over-harvested, according to a report on the sea cucumber trade released Wednesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The recent transformation of this ecosystem from one dominated by a diverse assemblage of rockfish, crabs, sea stars, anemones, sea cucumbers, flatfish, lingcod and more to one devoid of life except microbes has been stunning, wholly unexpected and downright scary.
Lab results by the Carnegie group indicate that sea cucumbers around Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be responsible [because they are so abundant — about one sea cucumber per square meter] for about half of the nighttime CaCO3 breakdown, simply by grazing the coral sands of reef systems.
Scientists at Newcastle University, in North East England, working with colleagues in Africa, say the sea cucumber is important because it is responsible for cleaning up the sea bed by consuming and mixing marine sediments.