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| | The Topic will present a series of maps and charts currently available representing the distribution of the major oceanic resources. They are the results of several years of research and exploration programmes, carried out by several nations and compiled by numerous institutions and scientists. Many technologies has been used, since the beginning of the research, from the first voyagers using simple instruments to measure and to navigate the seas to the highly sophisticated satellites used in present investigations. |  | | | | Map from the Man and the Ocean, a CD-ROM produced by the Russian Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography. | | | | Users can access available maps and related websites by accessing the multimedia and websites listed in the knowledge objects section below. | | | | |
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| Why storms are good news for fishermen
by Pearson, Aria, New Scientist 06 January 2009 | |
| | ON THE surface of the sea conditions can be atrocious, with freezing gales and enormous swells. Slip beneath the waves and descend into the blue, however, and you enter another world, a more tranquil place where the violence of the waves above turns into an ever-gentler to-and-fro, and the temperature never falls much below freezing. | |
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