Quotes About Marine

Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling or exploration, which can disorient the animals and send them in the wrong direction, possibly toward beaches where they get stuck instead of into the deeper ocean.

Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't like he would take me to the ballet. We would go to a shooting range. It was the only thing he knew to teach his little girl how to do.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

I want to act for a really long time, but eventually I want to be a Marine and fly F-18s or train animals at SeaWorld.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.

I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I've seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.

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Remarkably, Darwin hadn't finished with barnacles yet. Three years later he produced a 684-page study of sessile cirripedes and a more modest companion work on the barnacle fossils not mentioned in the first work. "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before," he declared upon the conclusion of the work, and it is hard not to sympathize.

seas getting warmer, they're also bifurcating—developing some places where the water has more oxygen and others where it has less oxygen.

There was a tank of special flounder about fifteen feet away from the octopus tank," he said. The fish were part of a study. But to the researchers' dismay, the flounder started disappearing, one by one. One day they caught the culprit red-handed. The octopus had been slipping out of her tank and eating the flounder! When the octopus was discovered, Scott said, "she gave a guilty, sideways look and slithered away.

Preserved pufferfish. Former flounders. Ex-eels.

anemones, if unmolested by predators or stricken with disease, can theoretically live almost forever; scientists note that they do not appear to show signs of aging.

In many ways marine biology is at a pivotal moment, when we are discovering the richness of the ocean at the very time we are grasping how we've managed to deplete it over the last few centuries. Preserving what's left, as well as rebuilding parts of it to a semblance of what it used to be, requires us to relinquish some of the power we have exercised in the past. It requires living with sharks.

I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.

The coral reef at Bonaire, one of the alphabet islands in the Caribbean, is so alive and healthy.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

The oceans are thought to contain of the order of 4×1030 viruses, equivalent in mass to 75 million blue whales.

Today, when a U.S. Marine recruit at Parris Island is forced to climb rope walls and scamper over obstacles, he is following a training regimen first devised for the fierce Algerian fighters.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart were hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried.