atlanticocean.app

#Atlantic Ocean | Applications

#Atlantic Ocean | The second-largest ocean, | Covering ca. 85.1 million dwuare km (32.9 million square miles) | Constitutes ca. 17% of earth surface | Max depth 8,380 meters (27,490 feet) in Puerto Rico Trench | Separates Americas from Europe and Africa | Gulf Stream | Mid-Atlantic Ridge

#Undersea cable | Designed with multiple protective layers | Armor layers | Repeaters | Amplifiers | Monitoring Systems

#Undersea cable repair ship | Fixing damaged submarine cables | Equipped with grappling systems to retrieve cables | Using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for precision in deeper waters | Linear Cable Engines (LCE) for efficient cable handling | Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) | Murray Loop | Hydrophone | Underwater discharge method

#Submarine internet cable | Fiber-optic cable | Backbone of global internet connectivity | Vulnerable | Repairing involves specialized ships and equipment

#Transatlantic telecommunications cables| Carrying over 95% of international data | Increasingly funded by major tech companies

#Nuvem cable | Connecting South Carolina to Portugal | Google

#Amitie cable | Meta Platforms | Microsoft | Aqua Comms

#Deep sea mining

#MarinePollution

#Hazardous Chemicals

#Agricultural Fertilizers

#Human Waste

#Hypoxia

#Dead Zone

#Marine Debris

#Marine Litter

#Gyres

#Coastline

#Beach Litter

#North Atlantic Carbage Patch

#Municipal Waste

#Industrial Waste

#Municipal Sewage Pollution

#Nuclear Bombs

#Climate Change

#Hurricane Activity

#Increased Sea Surface Temperature

#Meridional Overturning Circulation

#Ocean Mixed Layer

#Heat Storage

#Heat Uptaking

#Extended ContinentalShelf

#Monitoring System

#Marine heatwaves

#Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)

#Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) | One nautical mile in radius | Hub of biodiversity | Made up of organisms especially vulnerable to bottom-fishing gear | Refuge for life forms stressed by rapidly warming ocean