SMS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Bathysphere, Feces, Jacques Piccard
2 Nov 2016
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98% of particles of carbon dissolves into the ocean. What happens when an individual organism eats something-> 5 trophic levels: 100,00 kilograms of primary producers, 1,000 kilograms of small herbivores, 100 kilograms of small sh, 10 kilograms of mid-size sh, 1 kilogram of tuna. Photic zone- rst level eurphotic zone light can reach, disphotic zone light is less common. Pass the photic zone you can no longer see, light cannot reach beyond this point. 0-200m: bathysphere the rst deep sea sumbersible, september 22, 1932 off the bermuda. They set a world record of 3,028 m over half a mile: 1953 the record was broken by the trieste, 3,050m (10,000ft) 100m = 11 atm = 162 lb/ in2. Wrote the book about domaines and kingdoms in the food chain of organisms and animals in the oceans. Systema nature: 4,400 animals in the book, 7,700 plant species.
