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#Indian Ocean | Applications


#Indian Ocean | The third-largest ocean | Covering ca. 70.56 million square kilometers | Average depth 3,741 meters (12,274 feet) | Deepest point Java Trench 7,450 meters (24,442 feet)


#2Africa Pearls under-sea csble


#India-Asia-Express (IAX) under-sea csble


#India-Europe-Express (IEX) under-sea csble


#Strait Of Malacca


#Bab ElbMandab Strait


#Sea Routes


#Petroleum Traffic


#Petroleum Products


#Persian Gulf Oil Fields


#Hydrocarbon Reserves


#Offshore Oil Production


#Beach Sand Minerals


#Global Container Trade


#Monsoons


#TwoGyres


#Submarine Fans


#Slope Terraces


#Rift Valleys


#Circumpolar Deep Water


#Crozet Basins


#Madagasgar Basins


#Western Boundary Current


#Somali Basin


#Rossby Waves


#Subtrobical Anticyclonal Gyre


#Bay Of Bengal


#South Equatorial Current


#Arabian Sea


#Indian Ocean Carbage Patch


#Phytoplankton


#Extended Continental Shelf


#Seaborn Trade


#Fish aggregating device


#Tuna fishers


#Tuna school


#Drifting fish aggregating device (dFAD): floating object attracting tuna to hide under and around it


#Tuna-like species: yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack, bluefin


#Bycatch of turtles


#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


#Oil Transit


#Choke Points


#Strait Of Hormuz