Maldives election could be key for China, India rivalry https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/maldives-election-could-be-key-for-china-india-rivalry/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #India #IndianOcean #Maldives

Angry and saddened by the needless deaths in #Madagascar #Antananarivo outside the Barea stadium, as the country celebrates the start of the #IndianOcean games. The organisation had been shambolic from the start, with underinvestment & people at the top capturing state money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDDiCxVYxSY&t=96s

China is actually not antipodal to the United States, so if someone in one country dug straight down through the center of the Earth they would not pop out in the other. That would be impossible, since they're both in the Northern Hemisphere.

If you dug a hole from anywhere in the lower 48 states straight through the center of the Earth, you'd actually come out… in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Starting in Alaska, you'd end up south of Africa just on the edge of Antarctica, and starting in Hawaii you'd pop out somewhere in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Conversely, depending where you started in China and dug straight down, you might end up in Argentina or Chile, but most likely you'd emerge in parts of the South Atlantic or South Pacific oceans on either side of the South American continent.

(all this provided, of course, traversing through the Earth's core doesn't kill you first 😉)

#science #sciencefacts #antipodal #unitedstates #china #indianocean

Nova tabvla India Orientalis. #Map #Maps #MapHistory #History #IndianOcean #India #Ocean #C17th #17thcentury #Histodon #Histodons #Image #Cartography @histodon @histodons

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B26055990C_-_Nova_tabvla_India_Orientalis.jpg

Attribution: Allard, Hugo, approximately 1628-1691; Allardt, Hugo, -1691; Allard, Carel, 1648-approximately 1709, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Massive ‘Gravity Anomaly’ Caused by Ancient #Sea Remnants Deep Inside #Earth, Study Says
The remains of the prehistoric #Tethys #Ocean are now inside the Earth, causing a massive #gravity anomaly in the Indian Ocean. The massive #gravityanomaly has puzzled scientists for years. Now, a new study proposes that the ancient remains of another ocean that sank deep into the Earth itself gave rise to the #IndianOcean geoid low (#IOGL), as the anomaly is called.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b734/massive-gravity-anomaly-caused-by-ancient-sea-remnants-deep-inside-earth-study-says

‘a new high-speed undersea internet cable to #DiegoGarcia… in the #IndianOcean… where China has expanded its naval influence’

La Réunion, Océan Indien

#IndianOcean #MeerMittwoch #Photography
Photo is my own

Here's a crab, on an Island in the Indian Ocean...

#Wildlife #Sealife #video #Crab #IndianOcean #Maldives

What is a ‘#GravityHole’? Can #IndianOcean's ‘Gravity Hole’ open doors to secrets of #Earth's origin?

https://www.hindustantimes.com/science/what-is-a-gravity-hole-can-indian-oceans-gravity-hole-open-doors-to-secrets-of-earths-origin-101688384413979.html #press

A Century Of Observed Temperature Change In The Indian Ocean
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098217 <-- shared paper
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“KEY POINTS:
• Historical observations of subsurface Indian Ocean temperature are recovered from expeditions in the late 19th and early 20th century
• Indian Ocean warming over the 20th century extends to 750 m depth
• Pattern of temperature change is consistent with surface warming and a poleward shift of the gyre over the last half of the 20th century..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #temperature #ocean #sea #seasurface #IndianOcean #history #change #statistics #spatiotemporal #climatechange #warming #record #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #gyre #datacollection #research

How The Indian Ocean Geoid Low Was Formed
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #gravity #geoid #geodesy #IndianOcean #formation #IOGL #model #modeling #geophysics #structuralgeology #crustal #mantle #convection #Tethyan #sea #ocean #subsidence #anomaly #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #tomography #density #rock #geology #tectonics #platetectonics

#NewSpecies!
New snapping shrimp from Indian Ocean just snapped:

Alpheus dingabadi
Holotype: Florida Museum

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03881556-C46D-FFC8-FF01-00D970784B31
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5271.1.6
#Zootaxa

#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #shrimps #indianocean

Dr Chowdary said the fingerprint of #ClimateChange and lingering warm waters in surrounding #oceans were likely to have helped drive the unusual heat. "This year, because there was a prolonged #LaNina, it has caused the #IndianOcean as well as the #WesternPacific to become warmer and that warming is persisting."

#Asia's #heatwave prompts climatologists' warning amid #UN report on rising global temperatures | #TootSEA | ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-25/asia-heatwave-climatologists-warning-rising-global-temperatures/102388434

No survivors were found after a weeklong search for 39 crew members aboard a Chinese ocean fishing vessel capsized in central #indianocean , with 7 bodies retrieved, China's Ministry of Transport said Tuesday.
Operation has been downsized into a small-scale one for 48 hours.

🌍 An #earthquake happened in the #IndianOcean 13mins ago at 2:56PM on 21/05/2023 UTC. The earthquake had a magnitude of M6.3 and it was 2km (1.24 miles) deep in the ground. Stay safe! #sismo #quake

Site Used: https://cutt.ly/Uwqe9b29
Information from EMSC.

The position of the boat was &quot;relayed&quot; to China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy warships for further assistance, they said.
#IndianNavy #SunkenChineseFishingVessel #IndianOcean
https://www.news18.com/india/indian-navy-locates-sunken-chinese-fishing-vessel-in-indian-ocean-officials-7865773.html

#India has been focusing on bolstering its maritime capability with a focus on the #IndianOcean as #China has been increasing its presence in the region
https://trib.al/9JyPQys #press

In a swift humanitarian action, Indian Navy is helping conduct search and rescue operations for a Chinese fishing ship that has capsized in the Indian ocean.
#China #PLA #India #Navy #IndianOcean
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/news/chinas-pla-seeks-help-from-india-navy-sends-aircraft-as-chinese-ship-sinks-in-indian-ocean-101684429707635.html

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

"Revealed: most of #EU delegation to crucial #fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists
- More than half of the EU’s delegation to a crucial body of #tuna stock regulators is made up of fishing industry #lobbyists, the Guardian’s Seascape project can reveal, as #Europe is accused of “neocolonial” overfishing in the Indian Ocean

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/apr/26/revealed-most-of-eu-delegation-to-crucial-fishing-talks-made-up-of-fishery-lobbyists

"At the last annual IOTC meeting, the EU’s 40-strong delegation was made up of at least 24 industry lobbyists listed as “advisers”, Guardian analysis shows. At the smaller special session on FADs this year, at least half of the 10 EU delegates were from the tuna industry."
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The numbers could shed some light on why the EU recently objected to an agreement by African and Asian coastal nations to restrict harmful fish aggregating devices (FADs) that disproportionately harvest juvenile tuna. Stocks of yellowfin tuna are overfished in the Indian Ocean."
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"In February, a proposal by Indonesia and 10 other coastal states in the region – including India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan – for a 72-day ban on FADs used by purse seine vessels was adopted by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), the main regulatory body. With a two-thirds majority vote, the measure was welcome by conservationists as a “huge win” for yellowfin and other marine life.

Retailers including Tesco, Co-op and Princes have previously issued calls for tough action to preserve and rebuild the $4bn yellowfin industry, while this year Marks & Spencer warned EU officials that FADs are a major cause of yellowfin tuna overfishing, and that they cripple future stocks.

The devices, typically made of plastic, also pollute the ocean and small island states when lost or discarded.

But earlier this month the EU, which is the largest harvester of tropical tuna in the region, objected to the measure, effectively exempting it from the restrictions. Critics described the move as “neocolonialism”, pointing to the influence of industry lobbyists from France and Spain in ignoring the will of many coastal nations."

#Colonialism #NeoColonialism #IndianOcean #Overfishing #CommercialFishing #Exploitation #Plastic #France #Spain #IOTC #India #SriLanka #Pakistan #Guardian