That is that a 3000 Ft . ocean sea mount is marked by a 3 Ft . lump of water above it.
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But once you could see the sea floor, get pictures of sea mounts _ the feeding and spawning grounds for deep-water fish _ the guesswork was gone.
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Geo . documentary entitled " Drain the ocean " states that all ocean sea mounts are mirrored by lumps at the ocean surface level, and that the ratio is 1-1000.
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O'Neal said the U . S . Virgin Islands government was notified the Sea Mount and the North Drop fishing areas were closed to foreign fishermen because of the pending legislation.
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And because many commercial species congregate around sea mounts, the underwater equivalent of flat topped mesas, trawl nets that inadvertently drag across the bottom are also destroying acres of marine life.
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A best seller from the depths has been orange roughy, a pug-nosed warrior that feeds on prawns, squid and fish, living on deep banks and around sea mounts near New Zealand.
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It seems understandable that a deep current welling up the side of a mount might produce a lump but not all sea mounts are subjected to the same degree of current.
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Atolls are presumed to form from extinct volcanoes in a process whereby the volcano creates the sea mount which rises from the ocean depths, then subsides leaving a coral atoll.
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By going to sea mounts ( undersea elevations ) and canyons that had never been trawled before, people were able to take huge catches _ thousands of pounds in only a few minutes.
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""'Polyplacapros tyleri " "'is a species of deepwater boxfish native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean where it is found near Australia, New Zealand and the sea mounts of the Norfolk Ridge at a depth of around.
