Following the colonisation of the Caribbean islands, the Caribbean Sea became a busy area for European-based marine trading and transport, and this commerce eventually attracted piracy.

The HBV hydrological transport model has been used to analyze water pollution issues in Estonia's rivers and in the Baltic Sea

The history of the Mediterranean region is the history of the interaction of the cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea — the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples — encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

* Fast Flying Ferries operated by Connexxion, provides a regular public transport service over the North Sea Canal between Amsterdam Central Station and Velsen-Zuid in the Netherlands, using Voskhod 2M hydrofoils.

The Kriegsmarine later used some of the motorized Sea Lion barges for landings on the Russian-held Baltic islands in 1941 and, though most of them were eventually returned to the inland rivers they originally plied, a reserve was kept for military transport duties and for filling out amphibious flotillas.

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In order to control the costs of the marine transport in Puerto Rico, the marine company Sea Land was bought to form Navieras of Puerto Rico in 1974.

Sea transport has been the largest carrier of freight throughout recorded history.

In freight traffic, the exportation of oil from the oil wells from Baku at the Caspian Sea to the Georgian port of Batumi at the Black Sea, forms an important share of the rail transport in Azerbaijan.

The Caspian Sea provides vital transport links with other countries and is being used to ship oil until various pipeline projects are completed.

Sea transport is crucial and a variety of ferry services operate between the islands and to mainland Scotland.

During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.

In that time, it appears he was involved in no sea battles, but commanded several vessels in potentially dangerous missions, including the transport of a ship from the Azov Sea on Russia's southern coast to the Baltic on her northern coast.

The circumstances of the retreat were disastrous, and all told, some 155, 000 Serbs, mostly soldiers, reached the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and embarked on Allied transport ships that carried the army to various Greek islands ( many to Corfu ) before being sent to Salonika.

Currents within the Gulf of Mexico are responsible for the transport of this seaweed mainly from the Sargasso Sea, but have also been responsible for the transport of trash to the shores of the park.

The port is the headquarters of Sevmorput ( Northern Sea Route ), and the administration of Russian Arctic maritime transport.

The table does not include tourist or heritage transport modes ( such as the private monorail at Sea World or the tourist Victor Harbor Horse Drawn Tram ).

For centuries, the Sea of Azov has been an important waterway for the transport of goods and passengers.

Navigation increased after the construction in 1952 of the Volga – Don Canal which connected the Sea of Azov with the Volga River – the most important riverine transport route in the central Russia – thus connecting major cities such as Moscow, Volgograd and Astrakhan.

The Queen, though, insisted that her son be allowed to remain with his ship, meaning Prince Andrew remained on board Invincible to serve as a Sea King helicopter co-pilot, flying on missions that included anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare, Exocet missile decoy, casualty evacuation, transport, and search and air rescue.

Sea transport is crucial and a variety of ferry services operate between the islands and to mainland Britain.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Called the Marmara Gazinosu, it is on the third floor, with signs pointing the way there, and has a terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara.

Newest small-boat playground is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level.

Such is the case with the Black Sea invasion of the natural hybrid Pelophylax esculentus reported in 2010.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

The Sargasso Sea contains large amounts of seaweed and is also the spawning ground for both the European eel and the American eel.

The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.

It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.

The Aegean Sea (;, Aigaio Pelagos ; or historically ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i. e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

From north to south, the country ranges from the northern tip of the Russian Arctic islands at Franz Josef Land to the southern tip of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, spanning about of extremely varied, often inhospitable terrain.

The reason for barring Indian ships from entering the wealthy Arabian port cities was to protect and hide the exploitative trade practices of the Somali and Arab merchants in the extremely lucrative ancient Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea commerce.

* November 17 – November 19 – St. Elizabeth flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea ; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10, 000 people.

The Salton Sea is a body of water with extremely high salt content.

Since the city is located on the shore of the Black Sea, the weather rarely becomes extremely hot due to the cool sea breezes.

In 1037, the Seljuks, a clan of Oghuz Turks moving from the steppes east of the Aral Sea, peacefully took over Merv under the leadership of Toghril Beg – the Ghaznavid sultan Masud was extremely unpopular in the city.

Mitch formed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, and after drifting through extremely favorable conditions, it rapidly strengthened to peak at Category 5 status, the highest possible rating on the Saffir – Simpson Hurricane Scale.

The article described extremely inhumane conditions, with children spending years in the Sea Org, sequestered from mainstream life.

It is also markedly sunnier than the extremely gloomy Kuril Islands to its north, being sheltered by Hokkaido's mountains from the heavy snowfalls produced on the Sea of Japan side by the Aleutian Low.

The night attack of 26 July at 00: 20AM was extremely light due to a severe thunderstorm and high winds over the North Sea during which a considerable number of bombers jettisoned the explosive part of their bomb loads ( retaining just the incendiaries ) with only two bomb drops reported.

Some studies suggest that a third species, the Arabian common dolphin ( D. tropicalis ), can be characterized by an extremely long and thin beak and found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.

This study also suggested that a third species ( D. tropicalis, common name usually Arabian common dolphin ), characterized by an extremely long and thin beak and found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, might be distinguished from the long-beaked species.

In North America, a Ross's Gull has been spotted as far south as Salton Sea in California, although sightings this far south are extremely rare.

Sea hares have an extremely good sense of smell.

Due to Svaneti's close proximity to the Black Sea, the region is spared from the extremely cold winter temperatures that are characteristic of high mountains.

There were many more games, such as two Sega Crazy Taxi machines, 6 Sega Sea Hawk machines, one Sega Star Wars Trilogy Arcade sit-down machine, double two-player linked Mario Kart Arcade GP cabinets, several sports arcade games including Sega Air Trix, Virtua Tennis, Sega World Series Baseball, Bowl-O-Rama, Sega Marine Fishing, F & F Super Bikes, an extremely rare Sega Flash Beat, two Fruit Ninjas, and many others.

Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and brought widespread destruction to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

Sea hares are however shell-less sea snails, and some species are extremely large.

In order to combat the chronic land shortage in the extremely densely populated principality, the work was begun in 1966 to create new land in the Mediterranean Sea southwest of le rocher.

One of its attractions is a cruise across one of the lunar seas, named the Sea of Thirst, ( located within the Sinus Roris ) which has filled with an extremely fine dust, a fine powder far drier than the contents of a terrestrial desert and which almost flows like water, instead of the common regolith which covers most of the lunar surface.

The rise was extremely rapid and the Caspian basin could not contain all the floodwater, which flowed from the northwest coastline of the Caspian Sea, through the Kuma-Manych Depression and Kerch Strait, over the current eastern coastline of the Sea of Azov into the ancient Black Sea basin.