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Ocean fact #6

Ocean fact #6

Enjoy a spot of windsurfing on your summer holidays? Perhaps you wouldn't want to go as far as Brazilians Flavio Jardim and Diogo Guerreriro. In 2005 the record-holding pair travelled 5,045 miles along the Brazilian Coast.
Ocean fact #7

Ocean fact #7

The world's highest tides occur at the Bay of Fundy, which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. At springtime, the difference between low and high tide can be 16.3 metres - about the height of a three storey building.
Ocean fact #8

Ocean fact #8

The Earth's longest mountain range is underwater. The Mid-Ocean Ridge runs around the globe from the Arctic to the Atlantic, via Africa, Asia and Australia. That's four times longer than the Andes, Rockies and the Himalayas combined.
Ocean fact #9

Ocean fact #9

The blue whale can grow up to 30 metres in length; the heart alone can be the size of a car. By the early 1960s blue whales were nearly extinct, but in 1966 whaling was banned and there are currently around 10,000 blue whales in existence.
Ocean fact #10

Ocean fact #10

The Arctic produces up to 50,000 icebergs – large chunks of ice that break away from glaciers and float in open sea – every year. They're classified by the International Ice Patrol as Growlers (the smallest bergs, just one metre tall) or Very Large (over 75 metres).
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