Emma's Earth Explorations

  Here is a place where life collides into the unknown  Let's be honest, you only had like two oceans to guess from in the last post. It was not that hard to guess where the subject was going.  After an admittedly few but efficient five minutes on learning about this blog's next stop, I've decided that one of the most fascinating and defining traits of the Pacific Ocean is its sheer size.  As our largest and deepest ocean, the Pacific Ocean's 63,800,000 sq miles of surface blue lays over an average depth of 13,000 feet. That's about 12 Eiffel Towers speared under the surface pointing to some lightless, yet not lifeless, land we know very little about.  What does this all mean? Well, one is that I'm too lazy to find the calculated volume of the Pacific Ocean using the stats *1 above. Two is far more thought-provoking. The mystery volume I didn't calculate from above is insanely large. Considering that only around 5% of the oceans have been explored and that ...

  Sapphire blues and turquoise hues... guess who. This next stop is a surprise; any guesses that come to you? Sapphire blues and turquoise hues diffuse into the sighing sea that surrounds you. A symphony of color and life, you breathe out in awe and remember that only bubbles and the blue can judge you down here. Here—where the flora spiral into skies and sculpt art out of dust and air *1 . Here—where the fauna is the darting dancers whose seemingly silent steps and streaks stream together into a song only those belonging to this deep can hear.  Here, the sea doesn't just reflect starlight, it can be seen from the stars—in the devoid abyss of space that mirrors the depths of some other deep.  But not this one.  Here, the sea reaches down a shallow 200 feet. But despite the lack of depth, this place stretches over 133,000 sq miles and contains over 9000 species, making it the largest coral reef system in the world.  Welcome to an explosion of color, life, and bea...