open-ocean

For example, in deep open-ocean waters, some tropical boobies rely heavily on actively feeding tunas to make forage fish accessible by driving them to the surface.

Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers Carl Safina 2012

Overfishing, driven by the growing luxury demand of China, has brought a third of open-ocean sharks to the brink of extinction.

Mindy Pennybacker: Food Rule 5-0: Go Whole Hog; Never Eat Wild Predators 2010

In my memoir 'Saved by the Sea - A Love Story with Fish' (out this May with St. Martin's) I talk about how, in the blink of an eye since I was born in 1951, 90 percent of the large pelagic (open-ocean) creatures including sharks, big tuna, marlin, cod and sailfish have disappeared.

David Helvarg: Saved by the Sea 2010

Compounding its lack of naval air power, China reportedly has no major program to build ships for at-sea replenishment of necessities like food, and most of its submarine fleet is better suited to littoral warfare than to open-ocean operations.

At Sea With China Peter Dutton 2010

The THC in the Arctic Mediterranean is often depicted as more or less identical to open-ocean convection in the Greenland Sea.

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

Three of the thermohaline ventilation processes that occur in the Arctic Mediterranean: boundary current deepening, open-ocean convection, and shelf convection.

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

These include the sinking of the boundary current as it flows around the Arctic Mediterranean, open-ocean convection, and shelf convection as well as other ventilation processes (Fig. 9.6).

Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic 2009

Diagram of sensible-heat (open-ocean) and latent-heat (coastal) polynya formation.

Polynya 2008

The movement of ancestral Oceanic people, or kanaka maoli, across remote Oceania was one of the most remarkable feats of open-ocean voyaging and settlement in all of human history.

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve 2008

Diagram of sensible-heat (open-ocean) and latent-heat (coastal) polynya formation.

Sea ice 2008