Sentences with phrase «deep open ocean waters»

When that edge moves off the continental shelf into deep open ocean waters, the productivity drops off and the marine organisms that feed larger wildlife are out of reach, scientists say.

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«These devices can be in open ocean and deep water, maybe 50 to 100 miles off the coast,» Coe said.

The federal government is about to open up to wind energy development vast swaths of deep ocean waters, and states and wind park developers are vying to be the first to seize the new frontier.

Instead of the familiar deep blue of the open ocean, the waters surrounding the Maiken were lagoon green.

Bright greens of plant - life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water.

hydrothermal vent Openings at the bottom of the ocean or a lake where hot water emerges from deep inside the earth.

Amongst these seas only the East / Japan Sea has no outflow of intermediate and deep water (containing anthropogenic CO2) to an adjacent major basin; the others are known to be significant sources of intermediate and deep water to the open ocean.

The recurring signature image of «The Master» — which is also the opening shot — is the aforementioned view of the ocean seen from a high deck on the rear of a ship, the waters roiled by the propellers deep below the surface.

The chilling of the South Ocean deep water began in earnest once the Tasmanian Gateway and the Drake Passage opened fully.

For this reason, it is best that you are comfortable swimming in deep, open ocean water for this particular tour.

The land in turn creates warmer rivers which then enter the ocean and follow the bottom out to deep water so for diving buoys that don't come near shore the heat is not observed passing through the open ocean surface.

The deep meaning in Global Temperature for me is the wondrous observation that, in order for life to evolve on planet earth, over four billion years, it seems as if we have never been either completely ice - free or without some open water across the oceans.

And out in the Atlantic Ocean, mobile dead zones now swirl providing a roving surface hazard to both the deep open waters and to the coastal regions that now sit in the firing line.

«Blue light is most prevalent in the open oceans, as it penetrates into deep waters — whereas in warm equatorial and coastal waters there is more green light, and in estuaries the light is often red,» explains David Scanlan, professor in marine microbiology in the University of Warwick's School of Life Sciences.

Wind power production in the deep waters of the open ocean is in its infancy of commercialization.

Research programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) encompass the entire ocean, from the surface waters to the deep seafloor, and from the coastal zone to the open sea.

Within the polynya, large heat loss to the air causes surface water to become cold and sink to the bottom via open - ocean deep convection.