http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-sargassumfish Comments for "Marine Life Series: Sargassumfish" en http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-sargassumfish <p><a href="http://imageshack.us/"><img border="" src="http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6090/sargass1ot3.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a></p> <p>Out in the middle of the Southern Atlantic ocean is a roughly million-square-mile area known as the Sargasso Sea. On the surface of this sea is an enormous mat of entangled, floating algae, kept in place by a combination of ocean currents and lack of winds.</p> <p>The movement of the currents which surround this sea, including the Gulf Stream, the Equatorial, the Canary and the Caribbean, collude to entrap anything that floats into this area and keep it, mostly, from escaping.</p> <p><a href="http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-sargassumfish">read more</a></p> http://www.diatribune.com/marine-life-series-sargassumfish#comments marine life Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:55:45 -0700 Mark H 3037 at http://www.diatribune.com