Marine Science Australia
2014 Tide Times Tasmania
The tide predictions in
these files represent the times and height of high and low waters.
Marine Science News
250 Million Pieces of Trash at Remote Top End Australian Beach
Climate change may change the way ocean waves impact 50% of the world’s coastlines
No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thought
Next generation corals undergo first field tests on the Great Barrier Reef
Deep sea carbon reservoirs once super-heated the Earth – could it happen again?
Marine Science facts
The oceans provide 99% of the living space on the planet containing 50-80% of all life.
Sponges are older than dinosaurs.
Half the Oxygen we breath is produced in the Ocean.
Irukandji jelly fish, with just a brush of venom leaves almost no mark. But after about a half hour you develop Irukandji syndrome, a debilitating mix of nausea, vomiting, severe pain, difficulty breathing, drenching sweating and sense of impending doom. You get so sick that your biggest worry is that you’re not going to die.
The most remote point in the oceans is called Point Nemo.
The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans are known as the three major oceans.