Random Sea Facts

    18 facts tagged with Sea Facts

    NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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    There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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    The Mysterious 200 ft Circular Baltic Sea Anomaly
    In 2011, a 200 ft circular anomaly in the Baltic Sea that has unusual characteristics and almost perfectly etched curvatures was discovered. To this day, its origin remains unknown.
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    More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest known spot in the ocean.
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    If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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    The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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    Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.
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    The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg that sank the Titanic to impact was a little over 30 seconds.
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