Pacific ocean News
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A group of fisherman in Hawaii have an amazing story to tell after a day of fishing for marlin five miles off the coast of Yokohama Bay ended with a Great White shark circling their boat for nearly an hour looking for its next meal.
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Two men, who have been lost for the past 33 days at sea, have been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. The two men, who live on the Pacific island of Kiribati, were found 300 miles north of their starting point, coming ashore on Namorik Atoll.
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The heat wave that is gripping most of the United States hasn't yet made its way to the northwest, including the Washington coast of the largest of all oceans: the Pacific.
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The Pacific Basin – including China and Japan -- maintains a commanding presence among wealthy individuals/nations with Australia and Canada, following the United States, having the highest proportions of 'high-net-worth-individuals.'
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The Daiichi nuclear facility’s troublesome leak of radioactive water into the ocean has been stopped, announced by the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), on Wednesday.
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Japan's fifth-largest seafood producer, Ibaraki prefecture, has halted fishing operations after tainted fish were discovered south of the catastrophic Daiichi nuclear facility near Fukushima, where radioactive water is being dumped into the Pacific Ocean.
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Japanese officials on Monday began dumping massive amounts of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean in order to create space for additional highly radioactively contaminated water, an act the Daiichi nuclear plant operator calls “another burden.”
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Etueni Nasau – one of the three teenage boys who was rescued after 50 days adrift at sea – has spoken about their ordeal.
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The North Pacific Gyre - a stretch of ocean 1,000 miles from the California coast - serves as the earth's natural digestion chamber, grinding up terrestrial debris. Scientists now confirm that it is clogged with plastic.
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An international team of scientists surveying the waters of the continental shelf off the West Coast of North America has discovered for the first time high levels of acidified ocean water within 20 miles of the shoreline.
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Storms churn in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
 Canadian film director James Cameron has completed his journey to the deepest known point in any of the world's oceans — the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Guam.
 Russia's defence ministry says a failed probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars has crashed, showering debris over the southern Pacific.
The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the North Pacific Ocean has increased a hundred fold over the past 40 years.
The violent rise and collapse of an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean is captured in startling clarity for the first time.
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