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Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne (chapter34)
Jules Verne Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea CHAPTER XI THE SARGASSO SEA That day the Nautilus crossed a singular part of the Atlantic Ocean.
This second arm—it is rather a collar than an arm—surrounds with its circles of warm water that portion of the cold, quiet, immovable ocean called the Sargasso Sea, a perfect lake in the open Atlantic: it takes no less than three years for the great current to pass round it.
Such was the region the Nautilus was now visiting, a perfect meadow, a close carpet of seaweed, fucus, and tropical berries, so thick and so compact that the stem of a vessel could hardly tear its way through it.
The name Sargasso comes from the Spanish word “sargazzo” which signifies kelp.
In the phenomenon we are considering, the Atlantic is the vase, the Gulf Stream the circular current, and the Sargasso Sea the central point at which the floating bodies unite..
In the midst of this inextricable mass of plants and sea weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medusae, green, red, and blue..
All the day of the 22nd of February we passed in the Sargasso Sea, where such fish as are partial to marine plants find abundant nourishment.


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The Sargasso Sea Image of the Sargasso Sea courtesy of Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc.
1994 Current images of the cloud cover over the Sargasso Sea and the temperature of the sea surface waters from space at the web site of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) Satellite Oceanography Project..
The Sargasso sea is an irregularly-shaped region in the Atlantic Ocean that is set apart, not by the presence of land masses, but by vast expanses of seaweed, called Sargassum, that float on its surface utilizing small balloon-like floats.
If you have never seen this brown free-floating seaweed, click here to visit a Sargassum exhibit by the University of California's Online Museum of Paleontology.
Legends abounded about the Sargasso sea in early times.
It was feared that the thickly matted seawood would entangle ships that sailed through these waters and that huge monsters of the deep made their homes beneath its protective blanket.
We now know that the Sargasso sea is a region of slow-moving ocean currents surrounded by rapidly-moving ocean currents (the Gulf Stream, the Equatorial Drift Current and the Canary Current).
The seaweed probably first came from the shores of the West Indies and then adapted to living and reproducing in the open ocean.

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March 5, 2004, Hour One: Genes of the Sargasso Sea / Cosmology Update
We'll also hear about the ongoing search for the most distant galaxies.
Craig Venter joins us to talk about his latest project: searching for new genes in the Sargasso Sea.
The researchers say that so far, they have discovered at least 1, 800 new species and more than 1.2 million new genes.
Genome pioneer sets sights on Sargasso Sea: Craig Venter aims to sequence every bug in entire ecosystem.

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