Frigate USS Reasoner ( FF-1063 ) | USS Reasoner ( FF-1063 ), formerly Ocean Escort ( DE-1063 )

The Ocean Escort type corresponded to other nations ' frigates ( convoy escorts ).

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.

* In 1952, Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean.

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

* In 1994, Guy Delage was the first man to allegedly swim across the Atlantic Ocean ( with the help of a kick board, from Cape Verde to Barbados ).

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

He gives no precise indication of their geographical situation but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshiped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was located on " an island in the Ocean ".

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

Tertullian believed Atlantis was once real and wrote that in the Atlantic Ocean once existed "( the isle ) that was equal in size to Libya or Asia " referring to Plato's geographical description of Atlantis.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

As of 2008, there was one satellite earth station, operated by Intelsat in the Indian Ocean.

A boat shaped like a sauce bottle that was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean by Tom MacLean

Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean.

That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed-Rheic Ocean ( closed by the assembly of South and North America ), the small, shallow Ural Ocean ( which was closed by the collision of Baltica and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains ) and Proto-Tethys Ocean ( closed by North China collision with Siberia / Kazakhstania ).

Other industries include sun-dried sea salt in Great Inagua, a wet dock facility in Freeport for repair of cruise ships, and mining of aragonite — a type of limestone with several industrial uses — from the sea floor at Ocean Cay.

* Ocean or lake material often meet kerogen type III or IV classifications.

* Ocean or lake material deposited under anoxic conditions often form kerogens of type I or II.

The Hawaiian Islands chain in the Pacific Ocean is the type example.

The function of outrigger is to stabilize the ship, the single or double outrigger canoe is the typical feature of the seafaring Austronesians vessels and the most likely the type of vessel used for their voyages and exploration across Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Indian Ocean.

Front-page headlines continue to present society with public health issues on a daily basis: emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, rapidly making its way from China ( see Public health in China ) to Canada, the United States and other geographically distant countries ; reducing inequities in health care access through publicly funded health insurance programs ; the HIV / AIDS pandemic and its spread from certain high-risk groups to the general population in many countries, such as in South Africa ; the increase of childhood obesity and the concomitant increase in type II diabetes among children ; the social, economic and health impacts of adolescent pregnancy ; and the ongoing public health challenges related to natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005's Hurricane Katrina in the United States and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

* It is often used as a type of enemy creature in games such as Star Ocean and the Shadowrun role-playing game.

The Galaxy X satellite ( Hughes HS601 HP type ) crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.

However, in the later installment of Star Ocean: The Last Hope the appearance of the characters did in fact change to reflect the type of weapon they were using.

Yet another type of fluvial erosion formed cirque is found on Réunion island, which includes the tallest volcanic structure in the Indian Ocean.

Gabkoz also is better known for such type of music in Namibia but there are like's of Specco, Scorpion, Ocean Girls, Mr. Tjiuti, Raindrops, Sonic Witness, The Couples, Right Choice, Manelo, and People Choice band. Don't forget Erick Mahua, Rirua Murangi and Chicco of Chiccolela Production who have contributed much in these genre to produce many up and coming artists like Skilpad who got much interest in syth sound of the original tune of township keyboards instrument.

* December 31, 1940: No. 1676, a 2-10-2 type locomotive with a 40-car freight train in tow, jumps the rails while cruising north via the Sorrento Grade and lands in the Pacific Ocean, with much of the rolling stock following suit.

Pillar corals ( Dendrogyra cylindricus ) are a type of hard coral which live in the western Atlantic Ocean.

There is an exploration of another type of extreme situation in those works of Hanley which deal with a shipwreck, such as “ Narrative ” ( 1931 ), and the World War II novels The Ocean ( 1941 ), Sailor ’ s Song ( 1943 ), though these extreme situations are undergone by groups of men, and “ were primarily inspiriting in their representation of maritime heroism ” ( Fordham 165 ).

* Ocean liner, a type of modern-day passenger ship

The river is of the floodplain type and is tidal, being indirectly connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Barnegat Bay and the Manasquan River.

He analyzed either side of the Atlantic Ocean for rock type, geological structures and fossils.

The Laurentian coast had irregularities that the Avalonia island arc hit the hardest which resulted in a ragged type of mountain building that began in the north and migrated south through time as the Iapetus Ocean closed from northeast to southwest in direction.

A transatlantic tunnel is a theoretical tunnel that would span the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe, and would carry mass transit of some type — trains are envisioned in most proposals.

Some boats with lifting keels go so far as to allow the keel to be canted side to side, allowing the bulb to be placed to windward to reduce heel in high winds ; this type of keel is called a canting keel, and is used in the newest Volvo Ocean Race's Volvo Open 70 class yachts.

* Ocean Flish, another type of Flish which relies on the ocean more than does the Forest Flish ;

The real torpedo ram HMS Polyphemus was a smaller type of ship ( 2, 600 tons versus 13, 000 tons for HMS Ocean ) but fast, heavily armoured for her size and capable of operating in shallow coastal waters ; her hull was low in the water with a raft-like superstructure mounting six 1-inch Nordenfelt guns, again very much unlike an ironclad battleship.

Satellites are also used by the nuclear states to provide early warning of missile launches, locate nuclear detonations, and detect preparations for otherwise clandestine or surprise nuclear tests ( at least those tests or preparations carried out above-ground ); this was the case when, in 1998, India and Pakistan both conducted a series of nuclear tests ; in addition, a nuclear-detection satellite of the Vela type was also reported to have detected a nuclear detonation in the Indian Ocean in 1978 that was believed to be a South African nuclear test in what was famously called the Vela Incident.