💙 I Love The Ocean 💙
I mostly love how different it is and the different species!
The ocean is so vast and we know so little about the ocean but it is such a beautiful world down there. I believe it is such an undiscovered world and it's magical!
It’s thought that between 70 and 80 per cent of the oxygen we breathe is
produced by marine plants, nearly all of which are marine algae.
We still only
know a fraction of the marine species
in our oceans. According to the World Register of Marine Species there
are now 240,470 accepted species, but this is believed to be just a
small proportion of the species that exist, with new marine life being
discovered everyday.
There are more historic artefacts under the sea than in all of the
world’s museums. Around 1,000 shipwrecks lie off the Florida Keys alone,
some of which are within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Other underwater museums have been created in recent years, including
the Mediterranean’s submerged bronze statue, Christ of the Abyss.
The world’s longest mountain chain is underwater. Earth’s longest chain
of mountains, the Mid-Ocean Ridge, is almost entirely beneath the ocean,
stretching across a distance of 65,000 kilometres. It’s said that this
mountain chain is less explored than the surface of Venus or Mars.
Less than five per cent of the planet’s oceans have been explored.
According to the Ocean Service, man has explored less than five per cent
of Earth’s oceans. As researchers strive to discover more, we’re
continually getting to know our oceans better.