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Second, throughout the centuries and up till today, every living adult sea turtle has overcome the odds, existing as a consequence of chance, skill, and capability.

The gauntlet each sea turtle faces in the course of its lifetime goes thus: First, deposited as a clutch of leathery, ping-pong ball-sized eggs into a nesting pit dug by its mother high on the beach, of the 50 to 200 eggs laid, roughly 20 percent will never hatch.

Roughly a month and a half after having been laid, the surviving eggs hatch, and the young turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface, emerging from the sand en masse, and making their desperate dash for the sea.

For those that actually reach the surf, they trade one set of threats for another, as they first face the repelling force of the waves, and then find a whole new host of predators awaiting them: Various fish, dolphins, sharks, and sea birds, as the young turtles come to the surface for air.

Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less, from each nesting cycle.

It is this added human pressure which has pushed each of the eight sea turtle species into either a threatened or endangered state.

So a breeding adult sea turtle is the very embodiment of a long shot.

Holding your breath in the sea, not necessarily at 100 meters, but maybe at two or three, putting on your goggles, a pair of flippers, means you can go see another world, another universe, completely magical.

These islands are entirely made up of coral atolls, and on average about two meters above sea level.

With the rising sea, they say, "Well, you can move back."

CA: Now, those predictions are, I think, that by 2100, sea levels are forecast to rise perhaps three feet.

You're on average six feet above sea level.

What's the problem?" AT: Well, I think it's got to be understood that a marginal rise in sea level would mean a loss of a lot of land, because much of the land is low.

So this is what's happening, but when we talk about the rising sea level, we think it's something that happens gradually.

It comes with the winds, it comes with the swells, and so they can be magnified, but what we are beginning to witness is the change in the weather pattern, which is perhaps the more urgent challenge that we will face sooner than perhaps the rising sea level.

Either we live on floating islands, or we have to build up the islands to continue to stay out of the water as the sea level rises and as the storms get more severe.

I read, for example, about the Southern African king Ngungunhane, who led the resistance against the Portuguese in the 19th century; and about marriage rituals in a remote village on the shores of the Caspian sea in Turkmenistan.

We have trampled the reefs physically with our boats, our fins, our bulldozers, and we have changed the chemistry of the entire sea, warmed the waters and made storms worse.

We can also use that knowledge if we're going to put something underwater, like a sea wall or a pier.

Instead, the universe consisted of a swirling sea of subatomic matter.

Then there's the deep sea shrimp, Acantherphyra purpurea.

And right now that means we're taking between 80 and 90 million metric tons out of the sea every year.

That's the equivalent of the human weight of China taken out of the sea every year.

That's the equivalent of a third of a China, or of an entire United States of humans that's taken out of the sea each and every year.

So now the Filet-O-Fish sandwich is made out of Alaska pollock, it's the largest fin fish fishery in the United States, 2 to 3 billion pounds of fish taken out of the sea every single year.

They told stories of great adventures at sea.

One famous nobleman, Lord Sakai, was an avid fisherman, and, when he made a large catch, he wanted to preserve the memory of the large, red sea bream.

It was collected from close to Antarctica, thousands of meters below the sea, so, very different than the kinds of corals you may have been lucky enough to see if you've had a tropical holiday.

Two dimensions, such as this beautiful two-dimensional image of the sea surface temperature.

If you plunge deep into the sea, or even put your toes in the sea, you know it gets colder as you go down, and that's mostly because the deep waters that fill the abyss of the ocean come from the cold polar regions where the waters are dense.

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