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Author : William Burr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456863169
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Chinchorro Reef written by William Burr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maribeth Mellin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470379979
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Mexico's Best Beach Resorts written by Maribeth Mellin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and evaluates beach resorts on Mexico's Pacific and Caribbean coasts, features rated profiles of 125 hotels and one hundred restaurants, and includes information on sightseeing and nightlife, tips on tours and packages, and advice on how, when and where to travel in Mexico.
Author : Marco Ortiz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030582116
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Marine Coastal Ecosystems Modelling and Conservation written by Marco Ortiz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a collection of large-scale network-modeling studies on coastal systems in Latin America. It includes a novel description of the functioning of coastal complex ecosystems and also predicts how natural and human-made disturbances percolate through the networks. Coastal areas belong to the most populated ecosystems around the globe, and are massively influenced by human impacts such as shipping, mining, fisheries, tourism, pollution and human settlements. Even though many of these activities have facilitated socio-economic development, they have also caused a significant deterioration in natural populations, communities and ecosystems worldwide. Covering coastal marine ecosystems of Latin America such as the NE and SE Pacific, NW Atlantic and Caribbean areas, it discusses the construction of quantitative (Ecopath-Ecosim-Ecospace and Centrality of Node Sets) and semi-quantitative (Loop Analysis) multispecies trophic-network models to describe and assess the impacts of natural and human interventions like pelagic and benthic fishing as well as natural events such as El Niño, and La Niña. The book also features steady state (and/or near moving equilibrium) and dynamical models to support the management of exploited organisms, and applies and quantifies macroscopic indices, based on Ascendency (Ulanowicz) and Local Stability (Levins ́ Loop Analysis). Further, it discusses the determination of the Keystone Species Complex Index, which is a holistic extension of the classical concept of Keystone Species (Paine), offering novel strategies for conservation monitoring and management.
Author : William Burr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781456863159
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Chinchorro Reef written by William Burr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off in the east, lightning flickered then dawn broke with all its special colors and with it came a steadily increasing wind. Mark didn't feel the wind's growing strength because it came from behind. But before long the seas began to build and he could barely manage the boat. He concentrated more seriously on his steering as the sailboat raced up and over waves that grew in size each second. The sky darkened. Storm clouds, massive and swelling, raced toward them. Within the next few minutes, he was wrestling the wheel for control. Cotton sat at his side, a worried look drawing down her smile as the wind gathered the waves up in towering masses and tore shreds of spray from their tops. She looked at him for assurance and found none. All the bravado had gone. The angry sea and the screaming wind frightened Mark and made away with the last of his confidence. She could almost see the fear howling around inside him like the wind. Overhead, the wire shrouds screeched and howled in feeble resistance to the growing storm. The sea probed again and again, testing Mark's amateur skills. Suddenly, the wind shifted causing the boom to swing in a wild arc from the port to the starboard side. The sailboat rolled and plunged sideways down the back of a large wave. Thrown off balance, Mark fell, losing his grip on the wheel. The boat's bow turned into the wind. Sails slatted and flapped with a frightening, cracking staccato. Though Mark didn't know what to do, he instinctively grabbed the wheel to stop its useless spinning. The boat straightened and fell off the wind, returning to its original course. With a loud pop, the sails filled with wind. The sailboat leaped forward and slashed through the water at ten knots. Two waves appeared ahead, bunched closer together than those before. Instead of crashing through the waves, the hull rose up and surfed on top of tons of rolling water. Windsong no longer behaved as a boat but more like a surfboard on an Atlantic swell. As the first wave passed beneath, the stern rose high and then crashed down on the crest of the second wave, parting the sea with a bone-shuddering blow. Huge cascades of white spray shot outward. Another big wave came at them from a different direction and swung Windsong's stern to the side. The sails whipped and flailed overhead, adding their frightening racket to the noise of the storm. "The boat can't take this beating, I don't know what to do," he shouted to Cotton who held tightly to the handrail in a white-knuckled grip. Mark swung the wheel to the right to get back on course. With a thump, the sails filled and Windsong charged up a mountainous wave. For a second, the boat paused on the top then pitched down twenty degrees and shot like a rocket into the yawning trough below, a slide that promised to bottom out in nothingness. Mark frantically spun the wheel back and forth trying to steer. The rudder, without its grip on the sea, did not respond. Out of control, the boat rolled over violently onto her side. Her masts crashed into the water. After long heart-stopping moments, Windsong bobbed upright and shuddered like a wounded animal. An onrushing wave caught the stern and miraculously turned the sailboat west, pointing her downwind again. Now, completely controlled by the seas, Windsong took off on another roller coaster ride up a wall of water to the top of the next breaker. Cotton lost her grip on the handrail. As if on ice, she slipped across the wet floorboards, banged against the steering wheel then back again to painfully slam into the bulkhead. Terrified, she looked at Mark and held her hurt side. A scream came from the stairway opening. "Mom! Mom! What's happening?" a little boy shouted. "I'm scared." Standing shoulder high in the hatchway, a boy stared out at them, his eyes wide with alarm, a cut bled from his forehead. Frantically, he searched the deck for his mother. "Where's my mom? Who are you? Mom! Mom!" "What in the hell? Who's
Author : Douglas E. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257951556
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)
Download or read book USS Dorado (SS-248) written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We knew we were going to have a rough time with this submarine from the beginning." Those words were written by Don Wheeler, a former DORADO crewmember who participated in the sea trials, in a letter to the author. DORADO was a U.S. Gato-class submarine, launched on May 23, 1943, set sail for Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal on October 6, and was lost with all hands somewhere in the Caribbean Sea six days later. This book is quite possibly about one of the worst "friendly fire" incidents in U.S. military history. It is the story of a U.S. submarine attacked by a patrol-bomber aircraft attached to VP-210 out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Within these pages you will read the formal Court of Inquiry that concluded, incorrectly, that the aircrew probably bombed a U-boat that was known to be in the area. Included in this book is the U-214 logbook which shows that they witnessed the bombing of DORADO. In this book is also the story of the author's search for the submarine over a 20+ year period.
Author : Sara Lieber
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0764587757
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (645 download)
Download or read book MTV Best of Mexico written by Sara Lieber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the inside scoop on Mexico. From beach parties on Cozumel and nightclubs in nonstop Mexico City to diving with sharks in Baja, MTV Best of Mexico shows you where you want to be, with choices for every budget to help you travel the way you want to. Alternative accommodations. Stay everywhere from a mega resort in Puerto Vallarta to a treehouse-inspired hotel in Playa del Carmen to one of the country's many open-air palapas. Cheap eats. Fuel up with bar-friendly snacks like tacos and tamales, sample cheap seafood at beachside loncherias, or splurge on a restaurant serving traditional mole. Great clubs, bars & hangouts. Find out where to go to listen to live mariachi music, groove to salsa, and chill with locals in town plazas. Offbeat attractions, world-class arts & adrenaline adventures. From paintings by Kahlo and Rivera and ancient Mayan ruins to cenote diving and race car driving, you'll discover Mexico's finest gems.
Author : Robert F. Marx
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048625514X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks in the Americas written by Robert F. Marx and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert guide to locating, surveying, excavating, identifying sunken vessels. Also detailed catalog of 4,000 wrecks arranged by year and locale. 73 illustrations. Bibliography.
Author : Hildegard Westphal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048193648
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters written by Hildegard Westphal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs. Complex interaction of physical and chemical parameters with biological parameters determines the architecture and composition of carbonate sedimentary bodies. This book closes some of the still existing gaps in our understanding of the influence and interplay of physical, chemical, and biological parameters with carbonate sedimentation. An understanding of this interaction is not only required for reliable prediction of reservoir quality but also for a robust interpretation of environmental conditions in the past and the present. It is written by geologists for geologists in order to provide an easily accessible overview of the large amount of relevant information provided by the neighbouring sciences. The approach of the book is to document the modern depositional environments of three classical areas of carbonate deposition, each characteristic for a specific sedimentological setting (isolated platform, attached shelf, ramp) in order to assess both the range of physical, biological and chemical parameters and their sedimentary response. This book presents a comprehensive compilation based on data from published work and unpublished theses, and the integration of these data in order to extract previously undiscovered relationships between the discussed parameters and carbonate deposition.
Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications ... written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary L. Peachin
Publisher : Peachin Adventures
ISBN 13 : 0991198115
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Caribbean Scuba Diving written by Mary L. Peachin and published by Peachin Adventures. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than nineteen million visitors travel to the Caribbean each year, and scuba diving is one of the notable reasons. Hundreds of species of coral and over 500 species of fish, clear water, sandy bottoms, and relatively shallow depth combine to make local conditions especially interesting for both novice and expert divers. Scuba is king in these water, and Mary Peachin has written an all-inclusive guide to the many islands in the Caribbean, plus the Bahamas and Bermuda.
Author : Thijs J. Maarleveld
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9230011223
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Manual for Activities Directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage written by Thijs J. Maarleveld and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Cortés
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080535399
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Latin American Coral Reefs written by J. Cortés and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the coral reefs of the American continent: the Brazilian waters, the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean are in Latin American countries, the subject of this book. For the first time, information on coral reefs of such a vast region is mined from reports, obscure journals, university thesis and scientific journals, summarized and presented in a way both accessible and informative for the interested reader as well as for the coral reef expert. The chapters of the book, divided by country and ocean, were written by either scientists from the countries or by those that know the area well. Reefs not documented in the past are described in detail here, including location maps. The natural and anthropogenic impacts affecting the reefs are presented, as well as sections on management, conservation and legislation in each country. Nineteen chapters, plus an introduction, present information of coral reefs from Brazil to Mexico, and from Chile to Cuba.
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Author : Andrea Trujillo León
Publisher : Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Reasons to Love Mexico written by Andrea Trujillo León and published by Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tecnológico de Monterrey presents 240 reasons to love México.
Author : Walter M. Goldberg
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000902870
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Global Atlas of Atolls written by Walter M. Goldberg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons and reefs teeming with colorful marine life have captured the public imagination. They have also been the homeland of millions of people for millennia as various groups of migrants spread across the far reaches if the Pacific, Indian and Western Atlantic regions. Developed from recently available satellite data, A Global Atlas of Atolls presents high-quality details of 476 atolls across the globe, characterizing aspects of the atoll rim, the lagoon, and their coral reef communities in unprecedented detail. In synthesizing and enhancing understanding of these unique seascapes, this volume provides a distinct compendium of descriptions and images, as well as documentation of the environmental conditions of winds, waves, and tides and a summary of the background literature for each atoll area. There is no comparable work. After an introduction that includes a glossary of terms, each atoll is documented in the form of an atlas written for scientists, but accessible to any diver or reader interested in these spectacular reef-island habitats. This book also describes some current challenges and perspectives on their future. It will be useful as a reference work for marine scientists, while providing a minimum of technical jargon for those who are not scientists, but who enjoy reading about exotic places with unusual attributes.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164346
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine environments support the livelihoods, economies, and quality of life for communities around the world. But growth of coastal populations and increasing demands on marine resources are putting the future of ocean and coastal resources at risk through impacts such as overfishing, wetland drainage, climate change, and pollution of coastal waters. Given these demands, it is vital to build capacity-the people, the institutions, and technology and tools-needed to manage ocean resources. Unfortunately, many capacity building efforts focus on specific projects rather than on capacity building as goal unto itself, resulting in activities that are not funded or sustained past the typically short project lifetime. This book finds that the most successful capacity-building efforts meet the needs of a specific locale or region based on periodic assessments and include plans to maintain and expand capacity after the project ends. The report recommends ways that governments and organizations can help strengthen marine protection and management capacity, including conducting periodic program assessments, making plans to sustain funding, and developing leadership and political will. The book was produced at the request of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the President's Circle of the National Academies, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Marisla Foundation, and the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation.
Author : Liza Prado
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1640493344
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Moon Tulum written by Liza Prado and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With idyllic beaches, rustic cabañas, and the turquoise sea, Tulum has all the makings of a perfect getaway. Immerse yourself with Moon Tulum. Inside you'll find: Strategic itineraries for families, honeymooners, history buffs, adventurers, and more The top attractions and unique experiences: Wander the ancient ruins of Chichén Itzá or climb the second-highest Maya pyramid at Cobá. Kayak through mangrove forests and snorkel the world's longest underground river system. See parrots, toucans, and even jaguars at the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, and bike from temple to temple on wide forest paths. Sunbathe by the pool or relax in an oceanfront cabaña with a beachy cocktail The best spots for sports and recreation, including sailing, fishing, kayaking, mountain biking, kiteboarding, and diving or snorkeling along reefs and in underground cenotes Expert insight from seasoned adventurers Gary Chandler and Liz Prado on when to go, how to get around, and where to stay, from charming seaside hotels to eco-friendly bungalows Detailed maps and full-color photos throughout Thorough information on the landscape, climate, wildlife, and local culture Full coverage of Tulum, Cobá, the Costa Maya, Laguna Bacalar, Ek'Balam, Chetumal, the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, and Chichén Itzá With Moon Tulum's practical tips and local insight, you can plan your trip your way. Expanding your trip? Check out Moon Yucatán Peninsula, or Moon Belize.
