Lowtide A dolphin’s hearing is so acute that


it can pick up an underwater sound from 15 miles away.


The tail propulsion of the dolphin


is superior in efficiency to that of ship propellors; they use less energy to achieve a given speed.


The orca can swim 35 miles an hour and jump 40 feet out of water.


The sperm whale was declared an


endangered species in the United States on June 2, 1970.


Gray whales have been known to


attack boats, charging with their heads and slashing with their tails.


The melon-headed whale, pilot whale


and the killer whale (orca) are all actually dolphins.


Ambergris, a product of the sperm


whale, has been used in cookery and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals for hundreds of years.


Scientists think there might be about


250,000 microorganisms in one glass of seawater.


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Scientists estimate that about 4,000


species of ocean fish have yet to be discovered.


MARITIME TRIVIA BY BRYAN HENRY The sea wasp jellyfish of Australia


is said to have the world’s most painful sting.


The box jellyfish of Southeast Asia


is so venomous that its sting can kill a person in only four minutes.


In Australia there’s a heart-shaped coral reef.


Octopuses have three hearts. The world’s tallest waterfall, Angel


Falls in Venezuela, is taller than five Washington Monuments.


Dead jellyfish can still sting. The first recorded sea voyage involved


sea trading between the Greek mainland and the Aegean island of Melos 7250 B.C.


When Christopher Columbus left


Spain on his fourth and final voyage to the New World in May 1502, one of his crewmen was his 13-year-old son, Diego.


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.


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is the oldest fishing club in the U.S. Its members have included Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and General George S. Patton.


The inaugural edition of Fox’s


Yachting Annual, the first register of American yachts, was published in 1872.


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