Introduction Part I: Thematic Essays The Arctic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean The Indian Ocean The Pacific Ocean The Southern Ocean Oceans and Seas in World Culture The Changing Nature of Ocean Boundaries The Shipping Industry Ocean Exploration Environmental Issues and the World's Oceans Part II: Topical Entries Adriatic Sea Age of Sail America's Cup Antikythera Wreck Aquaculture Art and the Sea Atlantic Galleon Exchange Atlantis Atocha Wreck Austronesians Beachcombers (Transculturites) Belitung Wreck Bermuda Triangle Bikini Atoll (Nuclear Pacific) Burial at Sea Carbon Cycle Celestial Navigation Climate Change Clotilda, Wreck of the Coastal Erosion and Deposition The Columbian Exchange Commodities Cook, James (1728-1779) Coral Reefs Coriolis Effect Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997) Cross-Cultural Encounters Cruise Ships and Cruising Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524) Deep Sea Exploration Earle, Sylvia (1935-) El Niño/La Niña Endurance, Wreck of the Estuaries Exclusive Economic Zone Fishing Fortified Wines (Port and Madeira) Franklin Expedition Glaciers Great Barrier Reef (Australia) Great Pacific Garbage Patch The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645) Hanseatic League Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002) Hokule'a Hurricanes and Typhoons Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500) Ice Breakers Ice Melt Islands Law of the Sea Literature and the Sea Little Ice Age Littoral Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521) The Manila Galleon Manmade Reefs Marine Pollution Maritime Archaeology Maritime Deities Maritime Empires Maritime Organizations Maritime Trade Mediterranean Sea Mermaids MH370 Microplastics Moby-Dick Mu (Continent of) Music and Seafarers Myths and Legends Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Navigation Nor'easter Northwest Passage Ocean Acidification Ocean Currents Ocean and Sea in Film Ocean Tides Overfishing Panama Canal Piailug, Mau (1932-2010) Piracy Plate Tectonics Poseidon/Neptune Queen Anne's Revenge, Wreck of the Reefs Salinity Sama-Bajau Sargasso Sea Sea Ice Sea Level Rise Sea Monsters The Sea Peoples Sea Volcanoes Sharks Ship Graveyards and Ship Breaking The South China Sea Submarines Submersibles Suez Canal Surfing Survival at Sea Terra Australis Incognita Thalassocracy Titanic, Wreck of the Tomol Tsunami Tupaia (c. 1725-1770) 20,000 Leagues under the Sea United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea The Vikings Warships: North American Colonial Wars Waves Whales and Whaling Zheng He (1371-c. 1430) Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index.