Unit 1: Water Chemistry
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. – Lau Tzu
Unit 2: Marine Navigation
O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small… unknown
Unit 3: Technology in Oceanography
Without technology the science of oceanography would still think the ocean bottom was an ice cube..
Unit 4: Primary Productivity
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe…John Muir
Unit 5: Ocean Currents
The ocean is a mighty harmonist…William Wordsworth
Unit 6: Waves
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end… William Shakespeare
Unit 7: The Ocean Bottom
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you…Friedrich Nietzsche
Unit 8: The Deep Sea
May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam… unknown
Unit 9: Life in the Epipelagic
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever…Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Unit 10: Coral Reefs
Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted… Silvia Earle
Unit 12: Estuaries
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one… Khalil Gibran