Ocean Currents and Climate

Ocean Zones

About a quarter of the ocean's surface is a desert. Hundreds of miles of open water with almost no food in it. So when a big ship crosses one of these empty stretches, it becomes the only interesting thing for miles, and fish start trailing along behind it.Biologists have studied this for decades. Any floating object out there, a log, a clump of seaweed, a drifting coconut, a stray piece of trash, a whole ship, ends up working like a magnet for fish. To something living in all that emptiness, an

One of the biggest mysteries is how Orcas, the ocean’s most efficient predators, have never attacked humans in the wild… almost like they know something we don’t.

RT @NatureUnedited: Footage from the Mariana Trench. 10,792 meters (36,000 feet) below the ocean surface