Prince Philip served in the Royal Navy and captained a ship.


Johnny Carson (comedian) served with the U.S. Naval Reserve. Dr. Benjamin Spock won a gold medal


in rowing at the 1924 Olympics. Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter,


Mariel Hemingway, was named after Mariel Bay in Cuba.


The island group of the Bahamas


includes more than 700 islands; only about 40 are inhabited.


An Ichthyomaniac is someone obsessed with fish.


Nine out of ten living things reside in the oceans.


There’s a museum dedicated to sardines in Sete, France.


In a form of kissing, sea lions rub mouths.     


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MARITIME TRIVIA There are more than 5,000 types of


BY BRYAN HENRY coral.


Coral reefs are home to one-third of all fish species, or about 7,000 species.


The Great Barrier Reeef consists of


3,000 separate reefs. The only mammals to be found on


some of the more remote Pacific Islands are bats.


There are more than 110,000 species


of mollusks, making up the second-largest group of animals after insects and other arthropods.


The largest sea snail shell is that of


the trumpet conch of Australia, which can be more than 30 inches long and three feet across the spines.


Some squid can produce light inside their bodies, known as bioluminesence.


 A fisherman from Vietnam survived


after being stabbed in the forehead by a swordfish.


Abraham Lincoln’s use of the phrase


“paddle your own canoe,” meaning mind your own business, did much to popularize it. It has been traced back to the early 19th century, although canoeing as a sport didn’t become popular until arond 1875.


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The water in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is four times saltier than any ocean. There have been no fewer than 3,000


recorded sightings of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland.


The Amazon River is fed by more


than 1,000 tributaries, seven of which are themselves more than 1,000 miles long.


Lowtide Fish don’t have eyelids.


Alaska’s coastline is longer than that of the continental United States.


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