Named The Passage, this dive site is a current highway
with plankton rich water which means mantas can be seen feeding here along with mobula rays as well as tuna and jacks.
Not exact matches
In his letter on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Graham Cox suggests it could be used to fertilise surface
waters with nutrient -
rich deep
water to promote
plankton growth for carbon capture (1 December, p 31).
The cool nutrient -
rich waters of the north Pacific are able to provide kelp forests
with millions of
plankton - the base of the aquatic food chain — due to an upwelling of
water from the deep sea in the stormy, winter months.
The mingling of cool, nutrient -
rich waters from the north
with warm currents from the south form a dynamic transition zone that is home to a myriad of sea life from microscopic
plankton to blue whales.
Maamigili's
plankton rich waters at the southern tip of the atoll allow scuba divers and snorkellers the opportunity to get up close
with a whale shark, or you can snorkel
with them too at Gangehi Maavaru in the north west.