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Oceans sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Oceans.

What are topography and bathmetry, and their meaning, shown as land elevation and ocean depthTopography and BathymetryBuoyancy and how ships float explained showing 1m3 of water displaced supporting a tonne of weight and the same principle floating a 50,000 tonne shipBuoyancyA map showing where Point Nemo lies - the furthest point from land with distances to the nearest land. This would be a long swimPoint Nemo: The Most Remote Place on Earth and the Spacecraft GraveyardMangroves illustration: showing the coastal habitat and their benefits in protecting, stabilising, nurturing and sequesteringMangrovesStrand line illustration: a beach showing the line where debris is stranded by high tideStrand lineWhat is Double-landlocked and which countries are double-landlocked: Lichtenstein and Uzbekistan —explained with a map of Lichtenstein wholly surrounded by landlocked countriesDouble-landlocked countriesAntipodes illustration: the earth is shown as a sphere with an axis drawn straight through the centre. The example of an antipode shown is where the axis passes through Spain in the northern hemisphere and through New Zealand in the southern hemisphere. AntipodesWhat is an underwater moon pool explained example: showing how a moon pool works with a neat underwater base with divers entering the water underwater, like it was a poolMoon poolSea horse, sea jelly rather than jellyfish or jelly fish, sea star rather than starfish or star fishSea jelly, sea starWhat is ghost fishing showing a discarded fishing net catching fish and other predatorsGhost fishingAn explanation of the plimsoll line, the international load line, for how high a ship sits in the waterThe Plimsoll line
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