It's also one of the most popular spots for experienced scuba divers.

它也是海潜水最受欢迎地点之一。

There's only bare sand and the warm shallow sea beyond.

这个荒凉沙漠远离温暖海。

The shallow temperate seas support the greatest concentrations of fish on our planet.

这片温和海是地球上鱼类最密集地。

The Great Plains are actually the former bed of shallow inland sea.

大平原实际上是内陆海前海床。

Coral reefs are only found in shallow, tropical seas.

珊瑚礁只存在于热带地海中。

Specifically it was a shallow ocean basin at the bottom of a steep cliff.

具体来说。它是在一座陡峭悬崖脚下海里。

The footage spanned shallow seafloors of 25 meters or so and areas nearly 4,000 meters deep.

视频拍摄了25米深左右海海底，也有近4000米深域。

The creature's former habitat, a shallow seabed, is now on a mountaintop.

这种生物以前栖息地是海海床，现在栖息地则在山顶。

The abundance of food in the shallow seas attracts many other species of whale and dolphin, including humpbacks.

海充足食物吸引了很多其它种类鲸和海豚，包括座头鲸。

And that would have had a greater impact on the shallow oceans.

这会对海产生更大影响。

Colonising new reefs is a challenge faced by fish across the South Pacific, but they have a simple solution.

移居到新海礁对南太平洋鱼类来说是一个挑战，但它们有简单解决方法。

And the shallow oceans were where the ammonites were living.

海是菊石生活地方。

But the emphasis in that  video was upon the shallow seas adjoining the great continental land masses.

但该视频重点是毗邻大陆海。

An asteroid six miles wide struck the Earth, causing major impacts to many ecosystems, including the shallow seas.

一颗六英里宽小行星撞击地球，对包括海在内许多生态系统造成重大影响。

As it coalesced, its interior was filled with deserts, while the single coastline eliminated many of the shallow tropical seas where biodiversity thrived.

由于陆地中充满了沙漠，在合并过程，堆积沙滩湮没了许多生物赖以生息热带海海域。

The temperature of the water rarely rises above minus one degree Celsius, but the shallow seas of the Arctic are some of the earth's richest.

这里水温很少上升到摄氏零下一度以上，但北极海却是地球上最富饶海域之一。

Sea levels were high, and the continents were surrounded by vast, shallow seas, full of exotic creatures like rugose corals, crinoids, and jawless fish.

海平面很高，大陆被广阔海包围，充满了奇异生物，如长皱纹珊瑚、海百合和无颌鱼。

This process of converting light and carbon-dioxide, and building plant matter is  the base of the shallow seas food-chain upon which all other forms are dependent.

将光和二氧化碳转化并形成植物物质过程是海食物链基础，所有其他形式都依赖于此。

One hundred million years later, the warm, shallow seas were packed with tiny plants and animals — essentially, hors d'oeuvres for a plethora of bigger creatures like trilobites, conodonts, brachiopods, and corals.

一千万年之后，温暖海充满了微小植物和动物——基本上是大量大型生物开胃菜，如同三叶虫，牙形虫，腕足类和珊瑚。

Because they live in warm, shallow waters and move so slowly, manatees may often have algae, barnacles, and other things grow and build up on their thick, wrinkled skin, and they can't get it off.

因为它们生活在温暖海，移动缓慢，所以海藻、藤壶，或其他动植物可能会经常生长并堆积在它们厚而褶皮肤上面，而它们却无法将其甩掉。