The metre (or meter) sea water (msw) is a metric unit of pressure used in underwater diving. It is defined as one tenth of a bar. The unit used in the...

construction in 2021—costing $1.1 billion. The water level in the Dead Sea is shrinking at a rate of more than one metre per year, and its surface area has shrunk...

in centimetres of water are still common.[citation needed] Underwater divers use the metre sea water (msw or MSW) and foot sea water (fsw or FSW) units...

itself up like a column from the water. Norwegian Bishop Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) did not disbelieve the existence of sea serpents themselves, but doubted...

convention is to measure ambient pressure in terms of water column. The metric unit is the metre sea water which is defined as 1/10 bar. Pressures are given...

A sea is a large body of salty water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the wider body of seawater. Particular...

duration, fetch, and water depth. When directly generated and affected by local wind, a wind wave system is called a wind sea. Wind waves will travel...

and out of the White Sea, respectively. The inflow of fresh water in spring decreases the surface salinity in the top 5–10-metre layer to 23‰ (parts per...

depth of 6,100 metres (20,000 ft), and it could operate at a water depth of 460 metres (1,500 ft). As a drilling rig, Byford Dolphin was equipped with...

referring to salt content, factors which together determine the density of sea water. Wind-driven surface currents (such as the Gulf Stream) travel polewards...

Deepsea Challenger (DCV 1) is a 7.3-metre (24 ft) deep-diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point...

square metre, 1 N/m2). On average, a column of air with a cross-sectional area of 1 square centimetre (cm2), measured from the mean (average) sea level...

Odyssey, and its maximum rated depth, 6,000 m (20,000 ft), measured as metre sea water. The ROV is launched and recovered using an A-frame crane designed...

000–4,000 metres (3,281–13,123 ft) deep) and abyssopelagic (4,000–6,000 metres (13,123–19,685 ft) deep) zones. However, characteristics of deep-sea organisms...

Haenyeo (Korean: 해녀; lit. sea women) are female divers in the South Korean province of Jeju, whose livelihood consists of harvesting a variety of mollusks...

of water is steam or water vapor. Water covers about 71% of the Earth's surface, with seas and oceans making up most of the water volume (about 96.5%)...

held by Ahmed Gabr of Egypt who reached a depth of 332.35 metres (1,090.4 ft) in the Red Sea in 2014, however this record is under investigation due to...

meters altitude, correction is required for dives deeper than 44 metres (144 ft) of sea water equivalent. Altitude diving is generally considered to be underwater...

Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world, with the depth varying between 0.9 and 14 metres (3 and 46 ft). There is a constant outflow of water from...

Aegean Sea via the strait of the Dardanelles. To the north, the Black Sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait.[citation needed] The water level...

swimming towards the ship. It was said to look similar to a sea serpent with a 1.2-metre-long (4 ft) neck. Its head was about 38 or 41 cm (15 or 16 in)...

cubic metres (11 billion cubic feet) of water per year from the Red Sea, desalinate it for use as fresh water and send the waste water to the Dead Sea by...

for almost any large body of water; it is a return flow compensating for the onshore-directed average transport of water by the waves in the zone above...

continuously lived under water, and were an attempt at creating an environment in which men could live and work on the sea floor. The projects are best...

surface to the abyss, beyond 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) where water temperatures may be as cold as 4 °C (39 °F). Deep-water corals belong to the Phylum Cnidaria...

shallow water tropical coral reefs are best known, there are also deeper water reef-forming corals, which live in colder water and in temperate seas. Most...

open-ocean JIM suit dive, untethered, to the sea ocean floor near Oahu. She set the women's depth record of 381 metres (1,250 ft) which still holds to date....

environment of, and immersed in, liquid water in a natural or artificial feature (called a body of water), such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, reservoir, river,...

The Adriatic Sea (/ˌeɪdriˈætɪk/) is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of...

accidents. As given in the references. Metre sea water and feet sea water, as well as metre/feet fresh water are actually units of pressure. A conversion...