Sentences with phrase «seamount area»

According to Conservation International, Costa Rican Marine Program Coordinator for Conservation International, Marco Quesada said, «Creating a protected seamount area sets an important precedent.

Describing the decree as a day of national pride, Costa Rican Marine Program Coordinator for Conservation International, Marco Quesada said, «Creating a protected seamount area sets an important precedent.

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An area of deep - sea near the seamount was also found to be full of soft corals.

However, I found them especially useful for prioritising areas worth protecting by pinpointing unique animal communities on the seamount.

The 12,725 - square - kilometer area is called the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.

Around many seamounts in the Indian Ocean, which are often productive fishing areas, the team found accumulations of discarded fishing gear.

And because many seamounts are located in remote surroundings — underwater islands, essentially — virtually every study finds species that were previously unknown and are endemic, meaning that they are unique to that area.

Approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) offshore of San Jose del Cabo, the top of this seamount encompasses two football fields in area, creating a giant platform for viewing marine life.

The archipelago is enormous and there are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, other areas with astounding hard coral formations, sea grass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand, vertical walls, seamount's, ship wrecks, planes, shallow water lagoons, and massive pinnacles.

In the Dampier Strait area there is a huge variety of dives including fast paced and fish filled seamounts, village jetties, beautiful coral reefs, as well as several unique areas to interact with manta rays.

Underwater volcanoes, called seamounts, host a wide variety of corals in the Gulf of Alaska, and submarine Bering Sea canyons deeper and longer than the Grand Canyon are home to the second-most dense and diverse areas of Alaska coral areas known.

To put it in context, the new Seamounts Marine Management Area is larger than Yellowstone National Park in the United States, and second only to Galapagos National Park in terms of marine protected areas in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

Signed by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in an Executive Decree on Thursday March 3, the declaration formalizes the creation of the new marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos Island.

The Costa Rican government has declared the area Seamounts Marine Management Area, and it covers nearly a million hectares, or 3,861 square miarea Seamounts Marine Management Area, and it covers nearly a million hectares, or 3,861 square miArea, and it covers nearly a million hectares, or 3,861 square miles.