Portal:Oceans/Facts/18

• Captain James Young's capture of a Spanish frigate in 1799 (illustrated) brought each of his seamen the equivalent of ten years' pay in prize money.

• Observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes.

• The snail species Oxygyrus keraudrenii shows an evolutionary reduction of the gastropod shell for living in open sea.