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| Introduction: What's it all about? | p. vi |
| Life in the Oceans | p. 1 |
| How many different creatures live in the oceans? | p. 1 |
| Why do animals and plants have unpronounceable Latin names? | p. 3 |
| What is the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature? | p. 6 |
| What are red tides? | p. 8 |
| What are foraminiferans and radiolarians? | p. 9 |
| Are corals animals? | p. 13 |
| Do sea wasps sting? | p. 17 |
| What are the echinoderms? | p. 18 |
| What makes a crab a crab? | p. 19 |
| What are barnacles? | p. 24 |
| What is the blue-ringed octopus? | p. 27 |
| Can squid fly? | p. 27 |
| Why do you find turtles wandering around in the open ocean? | p. 31 |
| Could the story of Jonah and the whale be true? | p. 32 |
| Where does the name 'whale' come from? | p. 40 |
| Do all whales live in the sea? | p. 40 |
| How long do whales live - and how do we know? | p. 41 |
| What is the difference between seals and sea lions? | p. 43 |
| Edible Marine Biology | p. 45 |
| What are scallops? | p. 46 |
| How did scallops get their name? | p. 48 |
| What are green-lipped mussels? | p. 50 |
| What is tomalley? | p. 51 |
| What are 'seafood sticks' or 'crab sticks'? | p. 52 |
| When is a pollack not a pollack? | p. 53 |
| What are monkfish? | p. 54 |
| What are basa fish? | p. 55 |
| What are sea bass? | p. 56 |
| What are sea bream? | p. 57 |
| What is the orange roughy? | p. 57 |
| What are butterfish? | p. 59 |
| What are swordfish? | p. 60 |
| What are black halibut? | p. 61 |
| What is hoki? | p. 62 |
| What is coley? | p. 62 |
| Ocean Facts and Figures | p. 64 |
| Is there a maximum depth that things will sink to in the ocean? | p. 64 |
| Did the Mediterranean really dry up once? | p. 66 |
| How narrow (or wide) is the Strait of Gibraltar? | p. 67 |
| Why is the Black Sea called the Black Sea? | p. 69 |
| What is the Black Sea deluge theory? | p. 70 |
| Where and what is the Sargasso Sea? | p. 73 |
| Is there really such a thing as the Bermuda Triangle? | p. 76 |
| What is the deep sea floor made of? | p. 77 |
| What are manganese nodules? | p. 79 |
| What are methane clathrates? | p. 82 |
| Why is there oil and gas under the sea floor? | p. 83 |
| What is the SOFAR channel? | p. 85 |
| Why should oceanographers be interested in rubber ducks? | p. 86 |
| Fishing | p. 89 |
| How much fish do we take from the oceans? | p. 89 |
| Why are there so many Chinese fishing boats around the world? | p. 92 |
| How important is fish farming? | p. 93 |
| What is the Marine Stewardship Council? | p. 94 |
| How sustainable are trawl fisheries? | p. 95 |
| What are Marine Protected Areas? | p. 99 |
| Who controls whaling? | p. 100 |
| What is aboriginal subsistence whaling? | p. 104 |
| What is the Marine Conservation Society? | p. 106 |
| What is the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society? | p. 106 |
| Ships and Sailors | p. 108 |
| What is a great circle route? | p. 108 |
| Why is a ship's bridge called a bridge? | p. 111 |
| When do eight bells toll? | p. 112 |
| Why do sailors always seem to be painting? | p. 113 |
| Why do ships need pilots? | p. 115 |
| How do stabilisers work? | p. 115 |
| What is the connection between Lloyd's Register, Lloyd's of London and Lloyds Bank? | p. 116 |
| Who are Maersk? | p. 117 |
| What are container ships? | p. 118 |
| What are Pure Car Carriers? | p. 120 |
| What are bulk carriers? | p. 121 |
| What are LNG and LPG ships? | p. 121 |
| What are Suezmax and Panamax ships? | p. 122 |
| Rubbish in the Oceans | p. 124 |
| What is the International Maritime Organisation? | p. 125 |
| What is MARPOL? | p. 126 |
| What is echo-sounding? | p. 129 |
| What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? | p. 132 |
| What are nurdles? | p. 135 |
| Wind, Waves and Weather | p. 137 |
| What causes all those strange marks on the surface of the ocean? | p. 137 |
| What is El Niño? | p. 140 |
| What causes marine mirages? | p. 144 |
| Do volcanoes contribute to global warming? | p. 147 |
| Further Reading | p. 148 |
| Index | p. 150 |
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