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2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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   Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

3. List of diving environments by type - Wikipedia

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   Open water – Unrestricted water with free vertical access to the surface Blue-water diving – Diving in mid-water where the bottom is out of sight; Black-water diving – Open ocean mid-water diving at night; Penetration diving, also known as overhead environments – Diving under a physical barrier to a direct vertical ascent to the surface

4. Underwater photography - Wikipedia

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   Underwater photography has become more and more popular since the early 2000s, resulting on millions of pictures posted every year on various websites and social media. This mass of documentation is endowed with an enormous scientific potential, as millions of tourists possess a much superior coverage power than professional scientists, who can ...

5. Oceanic climate - Wikipedia

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   Regions where oceanic or subtropical highland climates (Cfb, Cfc, Cwb, Cwc) are found. An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with ...

6. Deep-sea fish - Wikipedia

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   This area is also where nutrients are most abundant. The bathypelagic and abyssopelagic zones are aphotic, meaning that no light penetrates this area of the ocean. These zones make up about 75% of the inhabitable ocean space. [2] The epipelagic zone (0-200 metres or 0-650 ft deep) is the area where light penetrates the water and photosynthesis ...

7. Underwater environment - Wikipedia

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   An underwater environment is a environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river, canal, or aquifer. Some characteristics of the underwater environment are universal, but many depend on the local situation.

8. List of submarine topographical features - Wikipedia

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   An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) and 6,000 meters (20,000 ft).Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains are among the flattest, smoothest and least explored regions on Earth. [1]

9. Deep-sea exploration - Wikipedia

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   The original benthograph built by USC was very successful in taking a series of underwater photos until it became wedged between some rocks and could not be retrieved. [30] Remote operated vehicles (ROVs) are also seeing increasing use in underwater exploration. These submersibles are piloted through a cable which connects to the surface ship ...