Words
Brackish
Low salinity sea water
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Designed the first SCUBA equipment
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
July 1988
First annual shark week was aired
Breaker
unstable wave that has collapsed
Francis Drake
First English Captain to circumnavigate the globe
MMF
Marine Megafauna Foundation
September 1, 1985
Discovery of the sunken Titanic
Nilas
a thin surface sheet of sea ice
James Cook
1st to chart the Great Barrier Reef
CRA
Coral Reef Alliance
September 26, 1985
The first surviving Orca was born in captivity
Pack Ice
Free-floating ice flows
Robert Ballard
First to find the sunken Titanic
WWF
World Wildlife Fund
March 26, 2012
First Successful Solo Dive to the Mariana Trench
Pelagic
Open ocean
Cornelius Drebbel
First to design a submarine
Naui
National Association of Underwater Instructors
June 4, 1853
First opening of an Aquarium