The sea's greatest depth is about 430 meters, and it thus reaches a point more than 825 meters below sea level.

SEALAB I was lowered off the coast of Bermuda in 1964 to a depth of 58 m ( 192 feet of seawater ( fsw )) below the sea's surface.

The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, at 7, 686 m ( 25, 220 ft ) below sea level.

The southern end is fed by a canal maintained by the Dead Sea Works, a company that converts the sea's raw materials.

Lowell's early poems were formal, ornate, and concerned with violence and theology ; a typical example is the close of " The Quaker Graveyard " -- " You could cut the brackish winds with a knife / Here in Nantucket and cast up the time / When the Lord God formed man from the sea's slime / And breathed into his face the breath of life, / And the blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

Because so much of the Earth's water was trapped in ice, the sea's level was about 127 m ( 417 ft .) lower than it is today.

Though some small settlements and a California state park line the shore, the area is eerily empty due to the sea's rapidly declining water quality.

It is impossible to assess the spiritual crisis in Aegean culture's relations with the sea's dangers and the capacity of its divinities that must have been engendered by the tsunamis that accompanied the volcanic explosion and collapse of Thera, ca.

Its name is derived from the Greek glaucos ( γλαυκος ) meaning ' gleaming ' or ' silvery ', to describe the appearance of the blue-green color, presumably relating to the sheen and blue-green color of the sea's surface.

It is a gregarious bird at sea, feeding nocturnally on cephalopods, fish ( particularly the deep sea myctophids, which rise to the sea's surface at night ) and euphausiid krill such as Thysanoessa spinifera, which also swarm at the surface.

A Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull, better known by the acronym SWATH, is a twin-hull ship design that minimizes hull cross section area at the sea's surface.

A look at the maps on this page will demonstrate that this part of the North Sea coast is very much at the sea's mercy.

That same year the American sealing captain Benjamin Morrell claimed to have seen land some 10 – 12 ° east of the sea's actual eastern boundary.

Due to the popularity of the sea's therapeutic and healing properties, several companies have also shown interest in the manufacturing and supplying of Dead Sea salts as raw materials for body and skin care products.

The sea's ancient Greek name Propontis derives from pro ( before ) and pont-( sea ), deriving from the fact that the Greeks sailed through it to reach the Black Sea.

The desiccation and salinization of the lake have caused extensive storms of salt and dust from the sea's dried bottom, wreaking havoc on the region's agriculture and ecosystems and on the population's health.

While under the emperor's patronage, Josephus wrote that after the Roman Legio X Fretensis, accompanied by Vespasian, destroyed Jericho on 21 June 68, Vespasian took a group of Jews who could not swim ( possibly Essenes from Qumran ), fettered them, and threw them into the Dead Sea to test the sea's legendary buoyancy.

Practically all of the sea's islands are either in coastal waters or belong to the various islands making up the Kuril Islands chain.

The majority of the sea's islands are uninhabited making them ideal breeding grounds for seals, sea lions, seabirds, and other sea island fauna.

Corrosion or solution / chemical weathering occurs when the sea's pH ( anything below pH 7. 0 ) corrodes rocks on a cliff face.

" He continues on for an entire chapter, relating myths of the green-haired merman sighted in the sea's icy waters, the inability of crews to navigate a path to the coast until 1949, and treacherous " flash freezes " that left ships, such as Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, at the mercy of the ice floes.

: The titanian star inflames the dwelling places of Olympus, and illuminates the sea's calm with vapour.

They will frequently ride on the bow wave of high-speed boats and jump clear of the sea's surface.

Even before Japan opened to foreigners in the middle of the 19th century, the sea's beauty was praised and introduced to the Western world by those who visited Japan, including Philipp Franz von Siebold, and after the country's opening, Ferdinand von Richthofen and Thomas Cook.

This provided a very effective barrier against the sea's tremendous power, but consequently the highest tides were forced southwards.

Homer describes Poseidon, who was god of horses ( Poseidon Hippios ), earthquakes, and the sea, drawn by " brazen-hoofed " horses over the sea's surface, and Apollonius of Rhodes, being consciously archaic in Argonautica ( iv. 1353ff ), describes the horse of Poseidon emerging from the sea and galloping away across the Libyan sands.

The species makes slow, deliberate movements with little splash or blow and usually lies motionless when at the sea's surface.

* Norse EA and Crowder LB ( Eds ) ( 2005 ) Marine conservation biology: the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity Island Press.

The Pertuis d ' Antioche owes its name to the similarity of the contour of its coastline with that of the Mediterranean sea's north-eastern area between Cyprus, Syria and Turkey, which harbours the famous ancient city of Antioch at its center.

The maximum width of the Sea is approximately, and its maximum depth is.

The maximum depth is 459 m ( 1506 ft ) which is on the Swedish side of the center.

The Black Sea has an area of ( not including the Sea of Azov ), a maximum depth of, and a volume of.

The reef rim averages around 100 m across and completely encloses a shallow lagoon that has a maximum depth of 15 m. Its Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) of is contiguous with that of Europa Island.

Ejecta thrown out of the crater do not include material excavated from the full depth of the transient cavity ; typically the depth of maximum excavation is only about a third of the total depth.

Over the years the search for the point of maximum depth has involved many vessels.

The strait is long but only wide, averaging deep with a maximum depth of.

Davenport is located on the banks of the Mississippi River and has a maximum depth of around and is wide where the Centennial Bridge crosses it.

On Diego Garcia this equates to a maximum depth of 20 metres.

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

The average depth is with the maximum of.

The canal itself is 118 miles ( 190 km ) long, of which 54 miles ( 87 km ) were dug or blasted, with a width varying between 23 – 46 ft ( 7 – 14 m ) and a maximum depth of about 9 ft ( 3 m ).

The bird could on average dive up to for its prey with the maximum dive depth being estimated at ; however, to conserve energy, most dives were shallower.

The maximum depth of directories is eight.

Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately 84 kilometers long and 66 kilometers wide, with a maximum depth of 15 meters, and an elevation of 1, 840 meters.

It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth of 62 feet ( 19 m ) and a maximum depth of 210 feet ( 64 m ).

The lake's average depth is 47 fathoms 1 foot ( 283 ft ; 86 m ), with a maximum depth of 133 fathoms 4 feet ( 802 ft ; 244 m ).

Its length ( north to south ) is 219 km, average width is 83 km, average depth is 51 m, maximum depth is about 230 m ( in the north-western part ).