An iceberg once floated as far south as the latitude of northern Florida.

Small, flat icebergs have been fitted

with sails and piloted from the Antarctic to Peru and Chile.

Some icebergs are as tall as a 25-story building.

Nine-tenths of an iceberg is under water. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, for

whom Tasmania is named, was the first westerner to circumnavigate Australia and demonstrate that it was an island continent, in the mid-1600s.The world’s first underwater oil pipeline was laid beneath the English Channel in 1944.

The Panama Canal took 10 years to

build and cost nearly $400 million.The orca is the only whale that preys on other warm-blooded animals.

earth - the blue whale - ironically

eats some of the smallest sea life, tiny plankton.

Elephant seals sleep so soundly on

breeding beaches that a person can sit on one without waking it.

The orca has never been known to

attack a human being. The male orca’s dorsal fin can be as

tall as seven feet. The orca lives in close-knit pods of

five to 30 members. Each female orca stays in the same

pod for life, but males regularly move between pods.

When an orca breaches, its splash can

he heard several miles distant. Orcas can toss 600-pound prey into

the air. The orca is the fastest member of

the dolphin family, reaching speeds of 30 mph.

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Orcas have 40 to 50 conical teeth

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that point backward. Orcas can swallow seals whole. Some orcas can live up to 100

years. The largest animal ever to have

lived on A pescetarian is a person who supplements a vegetarian diet with fish.

Lowtide

A pescevino is a wine that goes with fish. A pescephobe is a person who dislikes

or is afraid to eating fish. A barnacle found on the west coast

of the United States, Balanus nubilus, reaches a weight of three pounds and is said to taste like lobster and crab.

The four-winged flying fish can stay airborne for more than 3,000 feet.

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