#oceanography

[rocy5]

[layaart]

ocean books 🌊📘🐟

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[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Marianas Trench ~

[jadeseadragon]

"This is a Blue Button or Porpita porpita.

Although it is superficially similar to a jellyfish, each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan polyps  They each performing specialised roles – stinging and preying, defending the colony from predators, and producing more of their kind. Porpita porpita are also hermaphrodites, that is, they have both male and female reproductive apparatus.Do you think it is beautiful?"

Beautiful find by @snorkeldownunder

Information from Wildlife Conservation Trust

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[katerinaaqu]

People: Oh it was sooooo easy for people to sail about the Mediterranean sea! Odysseus was just a cheating bitch who stayed in places because he loved it! Meanwhile the currents of the Mediterranean sea:

(image obtained by the NASA SVS, UNESCO conference in Paris in 2011)

[princeofthegrasslands]

May i present to you

Diatoms

And an intruder there in the corner

[nemfrog]

"Algæ, or sea-weeds, furnish abundant ornamental material, and should not be neglected, for an investigation of their varieties will well repay the trouble of search and research."

Theory and practice of design. 1894.

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