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Understanding Oceans
- 1997 ----- color ----- 51 min ----- vhs
- Oceans teem with potential, from undiscovered species to cures for deadly diseases. Jane Curtin narrates this video which makes marines science easy to comprehend through dramatic real-life experiences and color computer animation. Meet the explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed his balsa wood raft, Kon Tiki, from Peru to Polynesia to prove his theory of ancient ocean migration. Learn how the ocean and air work together to create the disastrous El Nino. Trace the path and motion of currents, the winds of the ocean. Monitor ocean pollution. Consider the effects of global warming.
- Topics: (Geography, Marine Biology, Oceanography)
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