14 Let’s Talk Trash! MAY / JUNE 2019
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Dragon Fish The dragon fish is a rather strange creature as it produces light from its long slender frame to attract potential mates and also prey. They possess distinct fang looking teeth, which are used to scrape algae off rocks and feed on them. The species hunts with the aid of a bright luminescent barbell lure under its chin. Afterwards, the dragon fish uses its pitch black stomach to hide the unlucky prey. However, don’t fret, fellow readers, as the fish lives in deep depths of 5,000 to 7,000 feet .
Justin Loftis
Guam
Guam is the closest land mass to the Mariana Trench, which is 10,994 meters deep (36,070 feet), making it the deepest part of the ocean. Guam is a U.S. military base located in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean south to Japan (east to Philippines). People born in Guam are American citizens but they cannot vote for the US president. It has a population of 164,000 people, and the most famous person in Guam is Ricardo Blas Junior. Don’t know who that is? He competed at the 2008 and 2012 summer Olympics for judoka, a Japanese martial art. Ricardo is 32 weighing in at 481 pounds.
Lexi Martin
Carli Waffird
DJ Webb
Madison Smith
Margie Madrid
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne referred to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues (80,000 km) which is nearly twice the circumference of the Earth. The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. The book uses metric leagues, which are four kilometers each. At sea, a league is actually three nautical miles (3.452 miles; 5.556 kilometers). Although it is a fictional story, the fantastic journey peaks our interest into the mysteries that lie below!
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