And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Rev. 16:3<\/i><\/p>\n
5442<\/b> Statistics On Oceans<\/b><\/p>\n
Oceans cover about 60% of the Northern, and about 80% of the Southern Hemisphere. In all, they occupy about 71% of the total square miles of the earth\u2019s surface. The weight of the water in the ocean is estimated at twelve plus seventeen zeros tons. <\/p>\n
If the earth\u2019s surface was uniform\u2014it averages about half a mile high although it rings up to six miles in some places\u2014the sea would cover it two feet deep all over. <\/p>\n
5443<\/b> Volume Of Evaporation<\/b><\/p>\n
Every year a layer of the sea fourteen feet thick is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their burden into the land, and the water comes down in rain upon the fields, to flow back through rivers. Yet we question if this power of God is able to keep us. <\/p>\n
5444<\/b> Deepest Areas In Oceans<\/b><\/p>\n
Some of the deepest areas in the world are found in the oceans. These especially deep areas are called trenches. The deepest discovered trench in the Pacific Ocean is the Mariana Trench which is 36,198 feet or almost 7 miles deep! While in the Atlantic Ocean the deepest discovered trench is the Puerto Rico Trench which is 28,734 feet deep. <\/p>\n
5445<\/b> Population Along Sea Coasts<\/b><\/p>\n
United Nations (UPI)\u2014Two-thirds of the globe\u2019s population, four billion people, live in coastal areas which amount to only 12 percent of the world\u2019s land mass. <\/p>\n
The regions along 280,000 miles (450,616 kilometers) of coastline are overcrowded, containing 66 of the world\u2019s largest cities with populations of more than 1.1 million. <\/p>\n
By the year 2,000, an estimated three-fourths of the population of the United States will live along its coasts. <\/p>\n
5446<\/b> Law Of Sea Conference<\/b><\/p>\n
The Law of the Sea Conference, which began officially in 1974, involves negotiations, under United Nations auspices, among 150 nations. It\u2019s purpose is to produce a Law of the Sea Treaty, which will provide a legal framework for governance of the oceans. <\/p>\n
Noting that the oceans comprise over two-thirds of the earth\u2019s surface, President Carter said their increasing importance has been slow to gain recognition. He cited \u201cthe importance of their environmental integrity to our quality of life; their vast potential as a source of minerals, energy and protein; and the essentiality of their freedom of use for the security and well-being of all nations.\u201d<\/p>\n
5447<\/b> Tribulation And Seas<\/b><\/p>\n
It must be noted that the earth\u2019s oceans and seas constitute a system like a giant air conditioner, sweeping away the impurities of the air and balancing nature. Moreover, the oxygen-giving phytoplankton which are found in water, supply a majority of the earth\u2019s oxygen to man. <\/p>\n
When suddenly in the Tribulation, the oceans and the seas turn to blood (as prophecy says), what happens? (1) Waters become poisonous and putrid, and foul-smelling air sweeps across the world, (2) Fish become unobtainable as a source of food; starvation accelerates around the world, (3) People will rush to dig wells, but blood is also found in springs, and (4) Man\u2019s oxygen supply will diminish. <\/p>\n
Tribulation scenerio! <\/p>\n
5448<\/b> Killer Red Tide<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1976, Philippine health and fisheries officials were alarmed to see a flow of \u201ckiller red tide\u201d along the southern coasts of the islands. This \u201cred\u201d tide kills masses of fish in its movement on the sea as well as poisons them from being edible. <\/p>\n
Actually, the \u201cred\u201d tide is a body of microscopic one-celled red protozoans, which are so numerous they color the sea red. There may be about five million of them in a liter of water. <\/p>\n
The neighboring Malaysian government has organized \u201cRed Tide Committees\u201d to study this menace threatening to move also near their coast. It is reported that persons eating fish poisoned by the \u201cred tide\u201d suffer stomachache, vomiting, loose bowel movement and itching. <\/p>\n
5449<\/b> Brazil\u2019s River Of Death<\/b><\/p>\n
Brazil\u2019s Rio Negro, one of the Amazon\u2019s main tributaries, is truly black. So black, in fact, that light penetrating to a depth of 1 ft. is only one-hundredth as bright; at 6 ft., there is no light at all. <\/p>\n
Reason: unlike the Amazon\u2019s clearwater tributaries, the river does not originate primarily in mountains and courses through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland, jungle, and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi.\u2014an area almost as vast as Texas. <\/p>\n
In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Scientists have discovered that the Rio Negro\u2019s botanically-infused water may be a simple, untapped and essentially unlimited supply of a new and foolproof insecticide. <\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
5450<\/b> Red Sea\u2019s Name<\/b><\/p>\n
How did the Red Sea get its name? <\/p>\n
Probably from the millions of microscopic algae (seaweed) floating on its surface, which does give a reddish tinge to the water at certain times of the year. <\/p>\n
5451<\/b> Psychology Of Red<\/b><\/p>\n
The psychological effect of color on human beings was shown not long ago by the repainting of a black bridge a soothing green which resulted in a tremendous decrease in the number of suicides who jumped from it. In another case, the repainting of telephone booth interiors a stimulating red resulted in faster conversations and the elimination of waiting lines. <\/p>\n
Experiments have also revealed that the average person, when shown two identical packages, one wrapped in dark paper and the other in light paper, will almost invariably state that the dark one is the smaller and heavier. Most persons will also underestimate the length of time they have spent in a blue room and overestimate it in a red room. <\/p>\n
5452<\/b> Imitation Water Never Works<\/b><\/p>\n
Scientists can make an imitation sea water whose chemical composition is identical with that of natural sea water, but marine life will not develop in it. Yet add only a small percentage of natural sea water to the artificial, and marine life will flourish again. Life is a mystery only because we do not know the first thing about it. <\/p>\n
\u2014Holiday<\/i><\/p>\n
5453<\/b> Fishermen\u2019s Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n
The fishermen of Brittany utter the simple prayer when they launch their boats upon the deep: \u201cKeep me, my God; my boat is small and the ocean is wide.\u201d<\/p>\n
5454<\/b> Ring Into The Adriatic<\/b><\/p>\n
A strange custom, but the ruler of Venice on Ascension Day used to throw a ring into the sea to denote that the Adriatic was subject to the Republic of Venice. The symbolism of the ring comes from the wife\u2019s being subjected to her husband. <\/p>\n
5455<\/b> Columbus\u2019 Bottle<\/b><\/p>\n
Christopher Columbus tossed a bottle overboard in 1493 while in the Indies that contained a message for Queen Isabella I of Spain. It was found by the captain of an American ship and delivered to Queen Isabella II of Spain 359 years later. <\/p>\n
In 1956 a bottle was washed up on the north coast of Jamaica containing a faded message dated 1750. The writer wrote that his ship was on fire and sinking. <\/p>\n
5456<\/b> Boy\u2019s Unusual Return<\/b><\/p>\n
Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, reported the strange news of Charles Coughlin\u2019s homecoming. He was a native of the island who in eighteen ninety-five started traveling and a few years later wound up at Galveston, Texas. He died there and was buried. <\/p>\n
On September eight, nineteen hundred and one, a terrific West Indian hurricane swept the Gulf of Mexico, and caused that historic calamity of the Southwest known as the Galveston flood. The wind blasted at a terrific velocity of a hundred and thirty-five miles an hour, and swept the raging waters over the city. The churning torrents washed out the cemetery where Charles Coughlin was buried. The water swept away the earth and the coffins, which floated out on the Gulf. <\/p>\n
Thirty-four years later, in nineteen thirty-five, a floating coffin drifted ashore at Prince Edward Island. Upon examination, they found a plate with the name of Charles Coughlin, the same man who had left his Prince Edward Island home those long years ago. Wind and current had carried the coffin from the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston for thousands of miles\u2014all the way around into the Atlantic and up the coast to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. An unusual way for a local boy to return home. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Pollution, Water ; Water Shortages ; Waves and Tides ; Luke 21:25; Rev. 8:8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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