Inclui uma seleção de fotografias e vídeos tirados até 500 metros de profundidade num dos enclaves submarinos mais valiosos de Portugal . A Oceana criou um visor interativo com as imagens mais interessantes do Banco de Gorringe, um grupo de elevações submarinas ao sudoeste de Portugal. O visor, disponível no Google Earth, inclui quase cinquenta … Read more
Oceana has created an interactive viewer with the most interesting pictures it has taken in the Gorringe Bank, a group of seamounts south-west of Portugal. The display, available in Google Earth, includes nearly fifty photographs and videos taken by submarine robot (ROV), obtained at depths of up to 500 metres and mostly unpublished. The project … Read more
OCEANA Baltic Expedition 2013
The project, in collaboration with Fundación Biodiversidad, includes its description, cartography, virtual flight, and archiving in Google Earth. Oceana has created a 3D interactive tool with photographs and videos of the Nao Mound and the Formentera Morrot seamounts, in the Ibiza Channel. This instrument is a huge advance in knowledge of these elevations, as hardly … Read more
The seamounts of the Ibiza Channel are virtually unexplored. Until very recently only geological data existed of these elevations, which are distributed between the Balearic Islands and the Valencian coast. Oceana captured the first images of life on these seamounts, and contributed data to the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, in collaboration with … Read more
This type of exploration is the first step towards deepwater drilling, which has a potential for incredible damage Oceana, the international marine conservation organization, blasts the Spanish ministry of Energy, Industry and Tourism for providing permits to UK-based “Capricorn Spain Limited” for seismic testing, which has been shown to harm fisheries – in some cases … Read more
The impressive Gorringe Seamount is located about 250 km southwest of Cape San Vicente. Its summit is located about 30 meters from the surface and its base is over 5,000 meters deep, so you can find a variety of species living in areas near the sea illuminated surface to those living in dark depths. In … Read more
Download .kmz file (Google Earth) Fishing Mediterranean fisheries
Download .kmz file (Google Earth) Fishing Mediterranean fisheries
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