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... feet you descend the pressure placed on your body will increase one atmosphere . Humans can only tolerate the pressure exerted up to a few hundred feet beneath the surface . Marine organisms must also consider pressure , as in the ...
... feet you descend the pressure placed on your body will increase one atmosphere . Humans can only tolerate the pressure exerted up to a few hundred feet beneath the surface . Marine organisms must also consider pressure , as in the ...
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... feet and weights of 100 tons , are slow swimmers . A few summer off the coast of New England . They were named " right whales " by commercial whalers because they float after being harpooned and were therefore easily brought aboard ship ...
... feet and weights of 100 tons , are slow swimmers . A few summer off the coast of New England . They were named " right whales " by commercial whalers because they float after being harpooned and were therefore easily brought aboard ship ...
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... feet deep . Visible light pene- trates only to a depth of 2,000 feet so the benthos or life of the abyss must exist in a world of darkness . Tremendous pressure from the ocean of water above and near- freezing temperatures create living ...
... feet deep . Visible light pene- trates only to a depth of 2,000 feet so the benthos or life of the abyss must exist in a world of darkness . Tremendous pressure from the ocean of water above and near- freezing temperatures create living ...
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