Essays on Sea

One of the sources of international law listed in article 38(1) is ‘international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law’. From the definition follows, that there are two main requirements for customary law: objective requirement- ‘general practice’ (mainly, that states are practicing the law and it is referring to what states do) and subjective one- ‘accepted as law’ (opinion iuris of states, what states think they should do). Evidence of customary law can be found in ...

Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories tells a fictional tale of a young protagonist named Haroun who travels to the Sea of Stories to help his father gain back his skill of storytelling. This narrative was a consequence of Rushdie’s many years in hiding. After he published The Satanic Verses, a novel about Pagan Meccan goddesses which insulted many Muslims, former Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering the death of Rushdie. As a result, the English government ...

Lonely is defined as without companions; solitary. Isolation and loneliness go hand in hand, as loneliness can be caused by isolation and isolation can be caused by loneliness. Isolation’s causes, reactions, and importance are intertwined with The Old Man and the Sea’s characters, especially Santiago. Santiago is the protagonist of The Old Man and the Sea, a story in which Santiago goes fishing and pursues a fish for many days. Throughout the story, Santiago suffers from terrible misfortune. ...

Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial novel set in Jamaica following the Emancipation Act of 1838, when slavery was outlawed in the British Empire. The story follows the life of an ex-slaveholder’s daughter, Antoinette. Many important themes are brought up in Wide Sargasso Sea. Themes such as slavery, oppression, race, femininity, and identity are all relevant themes brought up in Wide Sargasso Sea. The theme of Identity is the most prominent and significant. Having a sense of ...

Have you ever been to the beach and seen trash laying there? Most people who see trash on the beach pick it up and throw it away. But, there are some people who see it and think “It’s just a little bit of trash, I’m sure it’s fine”. If you're one of those people I suggest you stop. There is so much waste in the ocean that destroys the life of marine animals. Not only does it hurt them and their habitats, it is also hurting us and our environment. I feel like one thing people don’t really ...

Speed has always been an important factor in maritime operations. In times where the shipping market is in a depression, many maritime operations operate in ‘slow-steaming’ mode in which they have lower speeds, a positive side-effect of this is that it also lowers polluting emissions. (EEA, 2013) However, if this is not true, then liners will concentrate on increasing their profits and not consider the environmental factors. Moreover, IMO cannot force liners to reduce CO2 emissions without ...

Jellyfish comprise a large group of ancient marine invertebrates with an evolutionary history dating back roughly 500 million years, and consequently these organisms have faced extreme environmental changes. In the last decades, the presence of jellyfish has drawn the foci of investigation because there has been a perceived increase in their abundance and distribution. Recently, jellyfish populations have been found in geographical regions where they have not been previously observed. To face ...

The video mosaic method offered an efficient approach for the spatial analysis of cold water coral carbonate mounds and quantifying coral abundance. Having a downward facing camera to analyse the Piddington mounds is essential when studying the carbonate mounds to get an accurate representation of the Belgica Mound Province. Other studies include Grehan et al. 2005 and Guinan et al., 2009 which confirm studies using downward facing ROV footage for cold water coral abundance as successful. The ...

Turritopsis dohrnii known was the Scarlet Jellyfish is one of a kind and unique. It is the only animal able to restart its life cycle. This is a capability human desire to have but aren't able to achieve. This species of jellyfish was discovered in the 1880’s in the Mediterranean Sea. The life cycle of the Scarlet Jellyfish starts as a planula, a larva, that settles on the seafloor. There it forms a cylindrical colony of polyps. The polyps grow to adulthood in a week or a little more. Fully ...

“What if all the seafood in the world would be discarded one day?" One could easily feel the intensity of calamity behind this statement if one goes through the research conducted by WWF which states that being the largest traded food commodity in the world, seafood provides nourishment to billions of people worldwide. As per WWF, approximately three billion people in the world rely on both wild-caught and farmed seafood as their primary source of protein; however, if one was into the room of ...

Have you been to a nearby beach recently? No? I will Then I will describe it to you. The sand was a soft golden shade that had the perfect comforting warmth. Laying on the beach felt like a welcoming and cosy hug, matched by the sun that filled the sky with beautiful colours. I stretched out both arms and legs to look like a starfish, my grin expanded steadily into a broad smile. Providentially the sky was clear, as a result, I could see the sun and this gave me a marker of the time that I ...

Opisthobranchia, a specialized group of phylum Mollusca, is the third largest group in Gastropoda. There are more than 3,000 known species of nudibranchs (Holland, 2008) with their habitats ranging from intertidal areas to seabeds a mile deep. Most of the species are exclusively benthic with some exceptions like Scyllaea pelagica which has adapted to the pelagic environment provided by floating masses of Sargassum. Until 2013, 311 species of opisthobranchs have been reported from the Indian ...

Sea-level rise is a main consequence of climate change. People think of global warming and climate change as substitutes, but then researchers choose to use climate change when telling the multifaceted changes now affecting our earth’s weather and climate systems. In the future, higher sea levels would cause serious impacts in numerous parts of the world especially the Pacific Islands. Are the small islands of the South Pacific in danger of vanishing, draught, under the waves of the rising ...

There are numerous techniques for characterizing and monitoring marine habitat; especially coral reefs. These techniques can be grouped into three main types: physical surveys, off-water remote sensing surveys and on-water remote sensing surveys (Sabol et al., 2002). First, the physical surveys or in situ sampling techniques can be described as the direct method of sampling and observing the seafloor by using grabs, dredges, corers, video, photos and trawls. These methods produce data with ...

A delta is described as the protruding structure that forms when the fluvial system progressively deposits it sediment into the sea as it losses it energy (Bhattacharya & Gıosan, 2003) . (Galloy, 1975) classified deltas into three types based on the dominant system deposition and reworking of the sediments. These types include river, wave and tide-dominated deltas. This poster will focus on the wave-dominated deltas. Wave-dominated define a set of deltas which form when the shape of the ...