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How the Ocean Affects our Everyday Lives

Just as we have been affecting the deep ocean environment, so the deep ocean has a variety of impacts on our everyday lives. In this video, Dr Jon Copley introduces just a few of the spin-off benefits coming from ocean exploration.

Just as we have been affecting the deep ocean environment, so the deep ocean has a variety of impacts on our everyday lives.

In this video, Dr Jon Copley introduces just a few of the spin-off benefits coming from ocean exploration.

Everyday Uses of the Ocean and its Resources

Explore the links below to learn more about everyday uses of the ocean and its resources, and some of the “spin offs” from exploring the oceans and marine life. You don’t need to read all of the links, but they are provided to show some of the many ways that the ocean is linked to our everyday lives.

Transport of Goods

Communication Cables

  • This map shows the full extent of the undersea cable network. [Zoom in, out and around the map or click on the navigation links on the right under ‘submarine cables’ to explore it].
  • Watch a video showing how undersea cables are laid

Hydrocarbons

Fisheries

“Spin-Offs” From Exploring the Oceans

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