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  2. Aquaculture of sea sponges - Wikipedia

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    Sea sponge aquaculture is the process of farming sea sponges under controlled conditions. It has been conducted in the world's oceans for centuries using a number of aquaculture techniques. There are many factors such as light, salinity , pH , dissolved oxygen and the accumulation of waste products that influence the growth rate of sponges.

  3. Sponge diving - Wikipedia

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    1897 schematic of commercial sponge diving. When sponge diving, the crew went out into the Mediterranean Sea in a small boat, and used a cylindrical box with a glass bottom to search the sea floor for sponges. When one was found, a diver went overboard to get it.

  4. Sponge ground - Wikipedia

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    Sponge grounds were later found elsewhere in the Northeast Atlantic [3] and in the Northwest Atlantic, [4] as well as near Antarctica. [1] They are now known from many other places worldwide and recognized as key marine habitats. [5] Sponge grounds are important habitats supporting diverse ecosystems.

  5. Sponge reef - Wikipedia

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    Sponge reefs are reefs produced by sea sponges. All modern sponge reefs are formed by hexactinellid sponges, which have an endoskeleton made of silica spicules and are often referred to as "glass sponges", while historically the non-spiculed, calcite -skeletoned archaeocyathid and stromatoporoid sponges were the primary reef-builders.

  6. Sponge - Wikipedia

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    The relatively large encrusting sponge Lissodendoryx colombiensis is most common on rocky surfaces, but has extended its range into seagrass meadows by letting itself be surrounded or overgrown by seagrass sponges, which are distasteful to the local starfish and therefore protect Lissodendoryx against them; in return, the seagrass sponges get ...

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  8. Spongia officinalis - Wikipedia

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    Spongia officinalis, better known as a variety of bath sponge, is a commercially used sea sponge. [2] Individuals grow in large lobes with small openings and are formed by a mesh of primary and secondary fibers. [3] [2] It is light grey to black in color. [3] It is found throughout the Mediterranean Sea up to 100 meters deep on rocky or sandy ...

  9. How long could you last in 50-degree water? Puget Sound ... - AOL

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    Steilacoom resident Tiffanie Majors, 40, said she has been plunging every Sunday for the last four years with her own group at Owen Beach. Majors said she always loved to take cold showers, so the ...