• Question: What is the most fasinating fact that you know about the sea or its inhabbitants that not many people know?

    Asked by coconut to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      That a lot of sea critters change sex during their lifetimes. Males become females, females become males: transgender life histories are the norm for many different types of animals.

    • Photo: Ozge Ozkaya

      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Yes Glo is right that’s pretty amazing, Also that deep sea creature produce their own light to attract their pray…

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I’ll go with a physics one: There’s as much heat stored in the top 1 metre of the ocean as there is in the entire atmosphere!

      Or how about this: The power in the gulf stream ocean current is many times larger than the output of all the power stations on the planet.

    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Some thins I’ve read over the past couple of days:

      1) The Atlantic is slightly saltier that the Pacific, due to the direction of the prevailing winds (Westerly), and where the mountains are, which determines where all the rain (no salt) falls.

      2) The rate of movement of water in the global circulation of the oceans is eight times as large as the flow out of the Amazon River, and is about the same as the amount of rain falling in the whole world.

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