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 * In 1979, the RISE project first discovered hydrothermal vents known as 'black smokers', on a mid-ocean ridge in the Pacific Ocean.


 * Reproduction in the sea wasp Carybdea marsupialis involves a sexual reproduction phase, budding and fragmentation.


 * American chemical weapons researcher and oceanographer Thomas Gordon Thompson sold his stamp collection to pay for his private island.