In Belize, off the island of Ambergris Caye, there is a popular marine sanctuary, Hol Chan, where divers and snorkelers often gather to watch stingrays and nurse sharks drawn to the area by tour operators who feed the animals.

The island and adjacent sea environs are within the Arcipelago Toscano National Park and marine sanctuary.

Located in Moss Beach are the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, a marine sanctuary ; the Half Moon Bay Airport, the historic Moss Beach Distillery and the Seal Cove Inn, a destination lodging property.

The rock is also protected as a marine sanctuary, Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and events are not allowed within 100 feet of either side of the rock.

O ' Keefe became a pioneer in sea turtle rescues in Hawaii and led a campaign to create a marine sanctuary ( Pupukea MLCD ) on the North Shore of Oahu.

* Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, marine sanctuary and underwater preserve which encompasses Thunder Bay and follows Alpena County's borders

In 1982 the sanctuary was expanded to its current extent of 580 km² including a marine area of 845 ha.

The sanctuary supports a unique intertidal marine ecosystem that is rare in New York State.

James Strong and J. McClintoch write that “ it seems improbable that any such substance could have been one of the constituent spices of the most holy perfume ; not only because we know of none bearing any powerful and agreeable odor, but specially because all marine creatures that were not finned and scaled fishes were unclean, and as such could not have been touched by the priests or used in the sanctuary .” There is also some doubt that a mollusk would have been referred to as a sweet spice.

The most prominent landmark of this suburb is Ricketts Point, a 115 hectare marine sanctuary and popular beach area.

Ricketts Point Marine Care group, a volunteer organisation concerned with the preservation of the marine sanctuary is active at Ricketts Point.

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument is a marine protected area but not a national marine sanctuary.

The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, while not a U. S. national marine sanctuary, is also jointly administered by the NMSP, in conjunction with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of Hawaii.

The marine sanctuary includes a 2, 800 square nautical mile ( 9, 600 km² ) area surrounding the Keys and reaching into the Atlantic Ocean, Florida Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

Coral reefs and other marine life in the Florida Keys National Marine sanctuary are threatened by human activities.

Angra dos Reis city and its neighbors are composed of medium high and high income population, its economy relies in great part on tourism and above all the region is regarded by many as a sanctuary for marine life.

The Marine National Park, the only marine sanctuary in India is near Jamnagar, on the coral reef island of Pirotan.

India's first marine sanctuary, has various parts where one can visit: one of them is Pirotan island which is about away in the Arabian Sea near Jamnagar and spreads over an area of about 458 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

The wreck site was designated as the United States ' first national marine sanctuary.

Shakotan, along with neighboring Otaru, is home to Japan's only national-level marine sanctuary.

The marine park of Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park, located off the shore of Shakotan and Otaru, is the only designated marine sanctuary in the national parks system of Japan.

Fishing is prohibited along the length of the marine sanctuary.

In 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt designated Bogoslof and neighboring Fire Island a sanctuary for sea lions and nesting marine birds.

As he looked up from picking at a leg ulcer, he saw a marine in the jungle across the clearing.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

Clams, crabs, and other marine life may add interest at coastal areas.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Various international treaties attempt to reduce pollution caused by environmental threats such as oil spills, marine debris, and the incineration of toxic wastes at sea.

Following months to years of photo-degradation and oxidation in the ocean, this precursor gradually hardens, developing a dark gray or black color, a crusty and waxy texture, and a peculiar odor that is at once sweet, earthy, marine, and animalic.

There are protected areas on Little Andaman, Narcondam, North Andaman and South Andaman, but these are mainly aimed at preserving the coast and the marine wildlife rather than the rainforests.

One of the densest natural sources for phages and other viruses is sea water, where up to 9 × 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > virions per milliliter have been found in microbial mats at the surface, and up to 70 % of marine bacteria may be infected by phages.

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Around 2, 700 students also attend Bachelor of Science engineering programmes, merchant marine and other undergraduate courses at Campus Lindholmen.

Cape Breton Island is joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, which was completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but requiring marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.

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The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( K-Pg event ) at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non-avian dinosaurs ( as well as other terrestrial and marine flora and fauna ) at the end of the Mesozoic.

Total production of marine, river, and lake fisheries in 2003 was estimated at 222, 965 tons, all but 5, 000 tons from inland waters.

Marine research at Dalhousie has become a large focus of the university, with many of the university's faculty members involved in some form of marine research.

In 2011, the university, along with WWF-Canada created the Conservation Legacy For Oceans, which aimed at providing scholarships, funding, curriculum development and work placements for students and academics dedicated to marine research, law, management and policy making.

Based on data from marine magnetic profiles, a pulse of unusually rapid plate motion begins at the same time as the first pulse of Deccan flood basalts, which is dated at 67 Myr ago.

The whole late Permian was a difficult time for at least marine life, even before the " Great Dying ".

The ocean ecosystem has likely changed since the prewhaling era, making a return to prewhaling numbers infeasible ; many marine ecologists argue that existing gray whale numbers in the eastern Pacific Ocean are approximately at the population's carrying capacity.

All of the Island's towns are at threat from rising sea levels while the Northern Plain, a large, flat and low-lying plain composed of soft marine sediments and glacial material, which makes up about a quarter of the Island's landmass, is in danger of being lost to the sea over the next two centuries.

* Marine insurance and marine cargo insurance cover the loss or damage of vessels at sea or on inland waterways, and of cargo in transit, regardless of the method of transit.