The marine area of the site includes coral reefs and a variety sea life such as hawksbill turtles, whales and whale sharks.

Principal natural resources include its marine area and marshland.

The park comprises 26 hectares of marine area and 48 hectares of land area.

Coral reefs cover almost 60% of the sites marine area.

The area, which consists of the atoll islands and surrounding marine area was granted national park protection status in 1992.

The company's marine division was one of several parts of the business to post strong first-half results yesterday.

Sales by its marine division have leapt as some ship operators have adopted alternative propulsion systems.

It refused to identify a 'product quality issue' in its marine division but admitted that profit in the unit would fall by about 10 per cent this year.

Currently 1,900 workers are employed by the marine division there.

It doesn't help that global market conditions are tough, particularly for the marine division, given the cuts in offshore exploration and production.

As well as the marine industry, its products are used in mobile phones, aviation and outdoor pursuits.

Marine industry remains part of the heritage of the town.

My thinking was that given the control systems are now so critical we don't necessarily have that expertise in the marine industry.

He had previous experience in the marine industry, but also a large amount of leadership experience in other industries.

His main interests are within the entertainment industry, the marine industry, and business education.

Marine pollution too, including from plastic waste, was another factor to contend with.

Treasury officials said that the scale of marine pollution made action unavoidable.

Secondary tasks will be marine search and rescue and marine pollution control.

Oil spills are probably the most emotive of marine pollution events.

These land-based activities increased the incidence of marine pollution from industrial effluent and poorly managed wastes.

An outback farmer has discovered the best-preserved remains yet of a fearsome marine predator the length of a bus that roamed the seas 110 million years ago.

Researchers had been puzzled about why the marine predator should have needed four flippers when the front two were perfectly adequate for it to swim well.

Like other dyrosaurids, it was a marine predator.

Studying them, therefore, may give some insight into the lifestyle of this ancient marine predator.

Scars left by the teeth of orcas, sharks and other marine predators scraping across the skin are known as rake marks.

They compared that with whale, shark and seal surveys collected in the marine sanctuary collected over 27 years.

His structure will include three performance arenas, woods and a marine sanctuary.

The oil spill has already spread over ecologically sensitive reefs, including part of a proposed marine sanctuary.

Some community members voiced opposition, fearing that a marine sanctuary would further restrict fishing and traffic.

Furthermore, the entire coastline of the island has been declared a marine sanctuary, preserving local fish life.

These become concentrated in the surface film and in marine sediment, especially estuarine mud.

During the 1970s and 1980s he developed an important technique of marine sediment dating through the measurement of the racemisation rates of amino acids.

The melting of large icebergs deposits sediment of various sizes, usually referred to as glacial marine sediment, onto the shelf and deeper marine areas.

Subsequent studies showed that there are more than a thousand viral species in human stool and possibly a million different viruses per kilogram of marine sediment, including many bacteriophages.

The data are derived from pollen and foraminifera (plankton) remains in drilled marine sediment cores, sapropels, and other data that reflect historic climate; these are called proxies.

About a quarter of all marine species live on coral reefs.

For scientists like us, the observation and monitoring of marine species can be challenging under the best of circumstances.

All around the world the public seems to have realised that marine species are wildlife that need managing.

So far, 244,000 marine species have been officially named, but the scientists believe there are many hundreds of thousands more in the depths.

Many marine species, especially whales, use hearing as their primary sense, in an environment through which sound travels vast distances.