10 Marine Life Facts Traditional Cache

This cache was put out by Team Cache Divers in celebration of their Big 10 Anniversary. Even though the event was planned it had to be cancelled due to Geowoodstock being the next weekend. But we decided to put the caches out for our friends anyways.

This is on the “hiking only” trail in Myakka River State Park. This is harder to find than most of them.

Please recover it so it doesn't get muggled.

10 Marine Life Facts

• # 10. The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
• # 9. The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons_more than the weight of 50 adult elephants. The blue whale's blood vessels are so broad that a full-grown trout could swim through them, and the vessels serve a heart the size of a small car.
• #8. The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body_sporting a magnificent red fin along its 50-foot length_horselike face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings
• #7. A group of herring is called a seige. A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
• #6. Penguins "fly" underwater at up to 25 miles per hour.
• #5. Since the architecture and chemistry of coral are very close to human bone, coral has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bones to heal quickly and cleanly.
• #4. Green turtles can migrate more than 1,400 miles to lay their eggs.
• #3. Oils from the orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, a deep-sea fish from New Zealand, are used in making shampoo.
• #2. The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
• #1. One study of a deep-sea community revealed 898 species from more than 100 families and a dozen phyla in an area about half the size of a tennis court. More than half of these were new to science.