ocean blue project logo

What Are The 7 Seas and 5 Oceans

List of Oceans

corolla-beach-north-carolina

The Five bodies of water and the global ocean produces more then half oxygen humans breath.

Historically the Ocean was thought of having 4 oceans, however we have five oceans of the world. What are the 5 oceans? The 5 ocean names are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean. Today we have Five Bodies Of Water and Our One World Ocean or Five oceans AKA Ocean 5, and two seas covering over 71 percent of the earths surface and over 97 percent of the earth’s water. Only 1% of earths water is freshwater and percent or two is part of our ice glaciers. With sea level rise just think of our ice melting and how a percent of earth would so be under water. The oceans of the world host over 230,000 marine animals species and more could be discovered as humans learn ways to explore the deepest sections of the ocean. 

best-beaches-in-the-pacifc-northwest-to-visit

We all share the same ocean our one world Ocean, learn more about how we can protect the microplastics that are harming fish and how we can support the ocean cleanup.

Peter Iredale ship can be visited at Fort Stevens, State beach in Oregon and on the Pacific Ocean beach. Photo below:

peter-iredale-pacific-ocean-beach-oregon

Five Oceans of the world

Pacific Ocean ~ The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world’s oceans. 
Atlantic Ocean ~ The Atlantic Ocean is the world’s richest fishing waters. Interesting Atlantic Ocean Facts: The Atlantic Ocean formed during the Jurassic Period. The first ocean to ever be crossed by an airplane.
Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean
Arctic Ocean 

Global Ocean

Seven Seas

  • Arctic
  • South Atlantic
  • North Atlantic
  • North Pacific
  • South Pacific
  • Indian
  • Southern Oceans

Antarctic Ocean

global-ocean-current-maps_orig-1024x688-1.png

Antarctic Ocean

The Southern Ocean also known as the Antarctic area.

The Antarctic ocean is the smallest of our oceans and the fourth largest and is full of wildlife and mountains of ice lastly throughout the year. Although this area is so cold humans have managed to live here. One of the largest setbacks is with global warming most of the ice mountains is expected to melt by 2040. The depth of The Antarctic Ocean is 23,740′ in depth. The Southern Ocean also known as the Antarctic Area: 7.849 million mi². 

How many people live in the Antarctic? No humans live in Antarctica permanently, but around 1,000 to 5,000 people live through the year at the science stations in Antarctica. The only plants and animals that can live in cold live there. The animals include penguins, seals, nematodes, tardigrades and mites.

Indian Ocean 

One of Five Oceans

Fun facts: Between Africa and Austral

Indian Ocean is located between Africa and Austral-Asia and the Southern Ocean. is the third largest of our oceans and covers a fifth ( 20%) of our earths surface. Until the mid 1800s the Indian Ocean was called the Eastern Oceans. The Indian Ocean is around 5.5 times the size of United States and is a warm body of water depending on the Ocean Currents of the Equator to help stabilize the temperatures. 

Features of Our Oceans 

Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean boards North America, Africa, South America, and Europe. This Ocean is the second largest of our five oceans and home of the largest islands in the world. The Atlantic Ocean covers 1/5 of the earths surface and 29% of the waters surface area.

The Atlantic Ocean ranks the second for the most dangerous ocean waters in the world. This ocean water is usually affected by coastal winds, temperature of the water surface currents maps

6 Types of Plants That Live in the Atlantic Ocean

  • Kelp. Kelp grows in cold coastal waters. …
  • Seaweed. …
  • Seagrass. …
  • Red Algae. …
  • Coral and Algae. …
  • Coralline Algae.

Pacific Ocean Conditions

Pacific Ocean Temperatures or conditions are split: cold in east, and warmer in west. In Oregon the body of water is average 54 degrees. Winter has huge Oregon King Tides leaving the norther waters super rough seas. 

Fun Facts For Youth:
Atolls are in the warmer conditions of the Pacific Ocean and are the Coral Sea Islands West of the Barrier Reef in Australia. Atolls are only found in the warm ocean waters, located in the southern water bodies of our ocean. 

Ocean Plastic
The Pacific Ocean is also the home for the most micro plastics floating in our oceans. The plastic are caused by humans littering by accident or just littering. Plastic pollution makes its way to the ocean in many directions by getting into street drains, rivers, blowing in the wind, or from fishing boats. learn about how some animals help lower plastic pollution.

6 Types of Plants That Live in the Pacific Ocean

  • Kelp. Kelp grows in cold coastal water bodies.
  • Seaweed
  • Seagrass
  • Red Algae
  • Coral and Algae
  • Coralline Algae

Pacific Ocean and Map of Oceans

Pacific Ocean Is our oldest of all oceans and the deepest of all the bodies of water. Mariana Trench is located in the western pacific ocean. Just 124 miles east of the Mariana Trench is our deepest natural point in the World called the Mariana Islands. The deepest depth is know to be 36,070 feet and in 10,994 metres.

american-flag-hurricane-damage

Learn more about Ocean Blue Project a nonprofit removing microplastics from our one world one ocean. 

Make a donation supporting the ocean cleanup projects or youth education!
Address: 
922 NW Circle Blvd Ste. 160-170
Corvallis, Oregon 97330
USA

As we continue to explore our beaches and oceans it’s vital we learn the ways of our oceans needs, that gives us everything we have today.

Hopefully, we will be able to protect the ocean from the effects of humans feet print. Together with education we can clean up the messes we have caused from plastic pollution and oil spills. So much ocean left to discover below our oceans I can only dream we as humans think of our animals safety as well as humans as we do eat fish of our sea. Best beaches in America to Visit on Coastal Cleanup Day.

 

 

Why Is The Ocean Blue

Clean water is blue because water absorbs and reflects the blue sky as light bounces red light, red orange yellow, light spectrum of reflections of light as a significant to lowering sediments as for taking care of our wild rivers protective sediments runoff destroying our ocean.

Ocean Blue feels beach cleanups conjointly facilitate the long wavelength of the blue color by lowering floating ocean plastics have to be compelled to facilitate keep our ocean blue by protecting clean water. because the ocean absorbs the red yellowness wavelength of light as the aspect of the white lightweight you’ll usually see a glimpse of reminder red etc once viewing the blue ocean reflections we tend to see most frequently. The blue color Lower floating sediments that may lower the short wavelengths of lightweight of sunshine spectrum that permits our ocean blue wavelengths reflections of sunshine to be the blue light color. Therefore removing plastic floating in our ocean helps permit blue ocean water and our water molecules of safe of blue water.

Join be a part of Ocean Blue Project beach cleanups during a native volunteer beach cleanup to assist defend clean water and save our ocean. Take a look at Ocean currents maps, press the blue button below!