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• The first organized exploration of the oceans occurred in 1872 when the British ship HMS Challenger spent three and a half years sailing the world dredging the ocean sediments, netting fish, and sampling sea water. The ship left with 240 scientists and crew members, yet 25% of them abandoned the project due to the mind-numbing drudgery of the task. Still, the ship traveled almost 70,000 miles, and managed to collect more than 7,400 new species.

• A dredging device employed during explorations in 1960 captured over 25,000 creatures during a single hour-long trawl at a depth of one mile, representing 365 individual species of animals. The same expedition captured 3,700 individuals representing 200 species of animals when they trawled at three miles deep. They found that a single dead whale on the ocean floor attracted 390 species of animal that fed off the carcass.

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1. What is the average depth of the oceans?

2. Which ocean is saltier: The Atlantic or the Pacific?

3. Coral reefs compose just 1% of the ocean’s space but harbor what percent of the ocean’s fish?

4. Approximately what percent of their body weight do sea otters consume each day?

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• Pteropods are sea snails, and there are many varieties. One type feeds by trailing long filaments of sticky mucus, which traps floating debris, while also keeping the creature buoyant. The snail reels in the strands of mucus and has a meal. Another type floats at the surface, allowing a blob of mucus to bob around where it is exposed to the air.

When a fly lands on the mucus expecting a meal, it gets stuck and is then eaten by the snail.

• One type of pteropod exudes a chemical defense when threatened. This species is sometimes kidnapped by a type of crustacean that carries it around in its pincers, acting as a biological weapon against predation.

• The cone snail is one of the ocean’s most deadly creatures, with venom that can paralyze and kill a human within minutes. Researchers studying the toxin found that it can relieve pain when delivered in greatly reduced doses. In 2004 the FDA approved the drug Ziconotide, a painkiller derived from cone snail toxin, with a potency 1,000 times that of morphine.

• Coral exudes mucus for several reasons. First, it acts as protection from sediment falling from above that otherwise might suffocate the coral.

The debris-laden mucus can be sloughed off at any time. Second, it traps zooplankton that the coral feeds upon. Third, it keeps the coral moist at low tides when the coral may be exposed.

Fourth, it contains antimicrobial colonies that help prevent disease.

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• There are over 100 species of lobsters, most of which are nocturnal. Lobsters can re-grow most of their appendages. They can aim a jet of urine at intruders, reaching up to 5 feet away. The urine carries chemical messages that warn rivals away while attracting mates. Female lobsters must molt prior to mating; the male often then eats the discarded carapace. Females can store sperm up to three years and will carry thousands of fertilized eggs around glued to the abdomen for ten months until they hatch. When you eat lobster “tail” you’re actually eating its abdomen.

• Some whales and seals can descend to depths of 6,560 feet and stay submerged for two hours on a single lung full of air.

• The Pacific grey whale holds the record for longest migration, hanging out in the Arctic and Bering Seas all summer, and swimming 12,000 miles to the Pacific shores off the coast of Mexico and California, where they give birth to their young in the winter. They will not feed during the winter, surviving off their blubber. The newborn whales consume up to 50 gallons of whale milk each day, which is about 40% fat.

• One type of tubeworm lives at thermal vents in the ocean floor where it tolerates temperatures up to 176 degrees F due to bacteria that cover its body and produce a protective heat-resistant enzyme.

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• Sperm whales eat squid, and squids have sharp beaks which the whale is unable to digest. The beaks stay in the intestines of the whales where they eventually melt into a soft greasy substance, which is then pooped out by the whale. This ball of stinky grease floats until it lands on a shoreline, where it is collected and used in perfumes.

It’s called ambergris which is French for “grey amber.”

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SEA CREATURES (continued):

• Shells of crustaceans such as krill, shrimp, and crabs are made from chitin. Chitin is valuable in many industries for use in cosmetics, shampoos, plant food, water filtration, and antifungal agents.

It’s also used to promote speedy blood clotting.

• There is a small worm that lives in the ocean off the coast of the Western U.S. Barely half an inch long, it is sometimes called by highly descriptive name of “the bone-eating zombie snot worm.”

This creature tunnels into the bones of dead whales where it sets down bacteria-laden “roots.”

The bacteria break down the fats and oils of the deceased whale, making the nutrition available for the female worms to digest. Meanwhile the miniscule males of the species live inside the female’s body, with perhaps several hundred males living inside each one of the females. Sperm is released at regular intervals; eggs are fertilized; and when eggs are released, the ones that land on whale bones grow into females, while those that land on other females turn into males, which then join the harem inside that worm. When disturbed, the worm retreats inside its gelatinous tube, releasing gobs of mucus as protection.

• Parrotfish live in communities composed of a group of females and a single male. If the group loses their male, one of the larger, older females can turn into a male and will take over the group, becoming more aggressive and more colorful. Although females can turn into males, males cannot turn into females. Once a female becomes a male, the change is permanent. When parrotfish sleep, they hide in a small crevice and cover themselves with mucus, which is thought to mask their scent from predators.

• It’s estimated that about 43 million people make their living from commercial fishing or from aquaculture worldwide.

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• On Oct. 2, 1780, British Major John Andre is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in New York. Andre, an accomplice of Benedict Arnold, was captured with incriminating papers in his boot. The papers revealed Arnold's offer to surrender West Point to the British for a bribe of 20,000 pounds.

• On Oct. 3, 1863, expressing gratitude for a Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 26, and on the fourth Thursday of every November thereafter.

• On Oct. 1, 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, paving the way for generations of nature lovers. Yosemite's natural beauty is immortalized in the stark black-and-white landscape photographs of Ansel Adams (1902-1984).

• On Oct. 4, 1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden sends a telegraph message to President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice between Germany and the Allied powers in World War I. After a difficult month of negotiations, World War I came to an end on Nov. 11, 1918.

• On Sept. 30, 1954, the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. In August 1958, the Nautilus accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole.

• On Oct. 6, 1961, President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect themselves from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. One year later, the world hovered on the brink of nuclear war after the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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• Jules Piccard was a Swiss chemist born in 1840. He made contributions to food chemistry. Jules Piccard was the father of twin sons Auguste and Jean Piccard.

• Donald Piccard was the son of Jean and Jeanette Piccard, born in 1926. As a child, he ascended with his parents to the edge of the stratosphere. He pioneered the use of Mylar and plastic in hot air balloons, and was the first to cross the English Channel in a balloon.

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• Auguste Piccard was born in 1884. In 1930, he and Paul Kipfer ascended to a height of 9.8 miles in a balloon Auguste designed which had an airtight aluminum gondola so they would not pass out from lack of oxygen. They became the first humans to enter the stratosphere, and were the first to see the curvature of • Auguste Piccard’s son was Jacque Piccard, born in the Earth with their own eyes.

1922. Jacque and Auguste worked together to build several deep-sea bathyscaphes. With the help of fund• Auguste made 27 high altitude flights. He then reing from the U.S. Navy, they built the craft named alized he could apply the same technology towards “Trieste.” In 1960 Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh creating a vessel that could descend into the ocean’s descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench at a depths. He began building a bathyscaphe in 1937 spot called the Challenger Deep in the Trieste. It took but was interrupted by World War II. The work conthem four hours to descend to the depth 35,814 ft, tinued in 1945. After making a series of successful or almost 7 miles below the surface of the sea. They unmanned trips to great depths, he gave the craft to spent 20 minutes at the bottom before returning to the the French navy in 1950, where it was redesigned to surface. Jacques later spent four weeks in a five-man carry a human. In 1954, it took a man safely down submersible he designed, which travelled from Florida 13,701 ft. Auguste and his son Jacques built a secto Canada following the Gulf Stream. ond bathyscaphe and together they dove to a recordbreaking depth of 10,335 ft. in 1953.

• Jacque’s son Bernard Piccard was born in 1958. He became a pilot, obtaining licenses to fly not only hot • Jean Piccard worked to advance balloon technolair balloons but also airplanes, gliders, and motorized ogy along with his twin brother Auguste. Jean and gliders. He was one of the pioneers of hang gliding in his wife Jeanette made the first stratospheric flight through clouds in 1934, ascending to a height of 11 the 1970s, and became the European hang-glider aeromiles in a pressurized gondola. He subsequently inbatics champion in 1985. Along with co-pilot Brian vented a window that that would not frost over durJones, Bernard was the first to complete a non-stop ing flights. Later he created an electronic system for balloon flight around the globe, a trip that took 20 emptying ballast bags. days. He was the initiator, chairman, and co-pilot of the first successful round-the-world flight in a solar• Jean Piccard’s wife Jeannette was the first licensed powered fixed-wing aircraft in 2016. female balloon pilot in the U.S., and the first woman to fly to the stratosphere when she accompanied her • Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in husband in 1934. She piloted the balloon, travelling “Star Trek” after the remarkable Piccard family.

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• Turn off notifications during homework time. This means you, too, Mom and Dad. Whistles, buzzes and bells distract more than just the person whose phone is sounding the alert.

• Did you know that when iron and copper in metal kitchen knives come in contact with certain fruits and vegetables, it causes them to brown more quickly? It’s better to use a glass, plastic or ceramic-coated knife to cut produce items, especially lettuce, apples and avocados, which are prone to browning.

• To remove the scent of garlic from your hands, sprinkle salt on a cut lemon and rub it on your hands. Then, wash as normal with soap and water.

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• It's well-known that Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize, but most people are misinformed about what he won it for. He didn't receive the award for his theory of relativity, but for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

• The name of one of the most popular early video games, Pac-Man, comes from the Japanese words for "to eat." "Isuzu" means "50 bells" in Japanese, and "Atari" means "prepare to be attacked."

• The lyrics to that favorite Irish ballad "O Danny Boy" were actually written by an Englishman.

• Hong Kong is not a city -- it's an island. The name of the city commonly known as Hong Kong is actually Victoria.

• A study conducted by the Environmental Conservancy shows that Viagra is having a beneficial effect on the environment, especially in Asian countries. It seems that even though the drug costs $10 a pill, it's still cheaper than bear's gall bladder and other supposed remedies.

• In ancient Rome, slaves with red hair commanded a higher price from buyers.

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About 60% of Earth’s surface is composed of ocean that is more than one mile deep.

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• The hagfish is an eel-like creature that grows up to several feet long and lives in the ocean. By most accounts, it is considered to be the world’s most disgusting animal.

• There are over 70 species of hagfish which live mostly in cold-water areas, ranging from the shallows to depths of 5,500 feet. They all share one common trait of spewing huge amounts of slime when threatened or startled.

• Though they are often called “slime eels” or “snot eels” they are not true eels. They belong to the family Agnatha denoting a classification of fish that have no jaws and no fins.

• Hagfish are scavengers, typically boring a hole into whatever carcass they find. They have lost their fish scales which might snag on things, sporting a smooth skin instead.

• After delving into a body, they spread mucus around. This serves not only to repel other creatures who might also want to feast, but also kills bacteria in the area.

• Hagfish have no jaws, but instead use a sucker-like mouth with two rows of teeth to bite off chunks of their meals. They wrap themselves in knots which provide leverage when tearing through tough skin.

Their skull is made of cartilage but they have no bones and no vertebrae, making knot-tying easy.

They also tie themselves in knots which they pull themselves through in order to scrape excess mucus off their bodies. Additionally, they can tie themselves into a knot if they find themselves in the mouth of a larger creature.

• The hagfish is also capable of “sneezing” in order to clear its nostrils of slime.

• Because the hagfish has no bones, and its skin is only very loosely attached to its body, it can squeeze through very small holes that are only half as wide as its body. ...continued

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• Hagfish can go months without food, but when they do find food, they can absorb nutrients directly through their skin.

• The only known fossil of a hagfish dates back 300 million years and shows that the creature has changed little since then.

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• When threatened or harassed, the hagfish excretes long strands of slime through a set of glands lining its body. A typical foot-long hagfish can fill a 5-gallon bucket with slime within mere seconds. So prodigious and so immediate is the production of slime that bigger fish hoping to make a meal of the hagfish get a mouthful of slime instead, and immediately back off while the hagfish slips away. The slime can also kill an intruder if it clogs their gills.

• The slime they spew consists of two components: thread-like proteins, and mucin, which is a gelatinous lubricant. The threads are extremely thin (1/100th the width of a human hair) but are each 6 inches long. The threads are coiled tightly inside the hagfish, but when released, they unspool like a spring. Then the mucin quickly absorbs seawater, expanding to 10,000 times its original volume almost instantly.

• A hagfish will typically release less than a teaspoon of gunk from the 100 or so slime glands that line its flanks, but within half a second, it will expand to fill an entire bucket.

• Bioengineers are working to develop synthetic hagfish slime, which may prove useful for firefighting, shark repellent, diver protection, or ballistic defense, among other things.

• Although it may seem disgusting, the hagfish is very efficient at clearing away dead animals from the sea floor. Today hagfish in the wild are threatened by intentional fishing and by unintentional bycatch.

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