Oceans

The oceans need to be protected because it is where life began and if not taken care of, life as we know it will end. When dangerous substances go into the ocean, ecosystems are suffer and become endangered along with lives of people and of marine life. Surfrider Foundation recognizes the importance of protecting and preserving the quality and biodiversity of the world's coasts because they are truly irreplaceable. There is also historical evidence of ocean pollution being present in the past, but

I stand at the edge where two worlds collide. The oceans exude power and confindence yet its are the connector to everyone. Here at the ocean, your peace can be found in the middle of this chaotic world. This is where people can lose themselves in the beauty, tranquility and the uncontrollable power of the ocean. I stand on the edge looking forward the ocean seems endless. Some people believe at the horizon there is nothing just a place where the moon, star and the sun hide until they shall return

Oceans are such so vast that people underestimate the impact their actions —seeming so insignificant— have on them. Humans have by and large taken the oceans for granted; not considering how important a healthy ocean is to our survival. A popular mind-set is that the oceans are a bottomless supply of fish, natural resources, and an infinite waste dump. There are myriad reasons why the oceans should be saved and the most obvious one is marine life. With 71% of the Earth being covered by water, it

every year, struggling against their worst enemy, the enemy that threatens not only the lives of these species, but also the entire ecology, the enemy called Ocean pollution. Ocean pollution, as the name suggests, is the ocean being in a polluted state, a state that does not give, but rather takes lives. This is indeed ironic, because the oceans are known for their ability to engender and procrete organisms of all forms, from the tiniest micro-organism to the world’s largest aquatic animals. Their realm

between the ‘most powerful emotions--despair, grief and pleasure’--and the electrical discharges from the ocean” (Hawkins). The ocean’s electrical discharges are similar to the electrical charges from our brains that occur when we feel emotions. The ocean could sense those feelings, specifically, the strongly repressed ones. When an emotion is not released and is contained, it becomes repressed. The ocean made physical recreations of these emotions because it thought that was how it could communicate with

ends up in our oceans but how does it get there in the first place? Well 80% of the plastics in the ocean come from land-based activities. Such as, plastic litter when we are not responsible on how we dispose our plastic including plastic water bottles and plastic packaging. These things seem convenient to most of us but in the end they do more harm than good. The remainder 20% comes from plastics released at sea, such as lost and discarded fishing gear. Once plastic gets into the ocean there is no

Our oceans have been pristine for millions of years. Only recently have our oceans been affected by human’s presence on earth. Beach’s that had once been filled with life are now covered in garbage from many different countries. The garbage patch in the northern pacific ocean is a great example to put the extent of this problem in perspective. This garbage patch, formed by circular wind patterns called gyres, has been described by many as a floating island of trash. Some of the main sources of ocean

Right now there is way too much pollution in the oceans. Fish population is going down, coral reefs are dying and the oceans are becoming unswimmable. Too much trash is being dumped into the oceans. 8 million pounds of trash is dumped into the ocean each year. Pollution in the oceans also affects the fish population. Since the 1960’s the fish population has decreased by 75% because of pollution.Sea creatures are mistaking the trash for food and eating plastic There are many sea creatures

The Ocean Ranger The Ocean Ranger was an offshore exploration oil drilling platform that sank in Canadian waters 315 kilometres southeast from St. John's Newfoundland, on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on February 15, 1982, with 84 crewmembers onboard. The Ocean Ranger was the largest semi-submersible, offshore exploration, oil drilling platform of the day. Built in 1976 by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, it operated off the coasts of Alaska, New Jersey, Ireland, and in November 1980 moved

The issue on ocean acidification is popularizing but what exactly is ocean acidification? It occurs when carbon dioxide is absorbed in the ocean’s waters from then on a series of chemical reactions take place which lowers the ocean’s water pH, carbonate ion concentration, as well as the saturation states of the calcium carbonate minerals ( “What is Ocean Acidification?”). Since we are addressing the issue on ocean acidification we will touch on the marine creatures that are harmed and will possibly