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Cyclone Gonu, the first documented cyclone in the Arabian Sea, made landfall in Oman on 6 June with maximum sustained winds near 148 km/h. Gonu moved through the Persian Gulf making a second landfall in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Oman, the cyclone affected more than 20,000 people and was responsible for more than 50 fatalities.
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A dust storm was blowing large quantities of dust out over the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea on Saturday, December 13, 2003. In this true-color scene, acquired by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), the dust storm (light brown pixels) can be seen extending from the the Arabian Peninsula (left) eastward over the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman toward the Arabian Sea. Parts of southern Afghanistan and much of Pakistan are ... covered by airborne dust. Additional images of the event were captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on December 14, 2003. Farther to the east, over northwestern India, there appears to be an extensive plume of another aerosol type. The grayish color of the haze there suggests it is of human origin.
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In the Arabian Sea, sunlight and nutrients has fueled a startling occurrence of colorful phytoplankton and bacterial assemblages, which is captured in these natural color images from NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR). Several areas exhibit an unmistakably reddish hue, particularly in the upper portion of the images. The image set is centered along the Tropic of Cancer, about 400 kilometers east of Muscat, Oman, and was acquired on October 2, 2004. A view from MISR's nadir (directly downward viewing) camera is provided on the left, while the two smaller images at the upper and lower right are from MISR's 60-degree forward and backward pointing cameras, respectively.
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Travelling from Oman along its easterly link, FALCON will cross the Arabian Sea to a new Reliance-owned landing station at Mumbai, India. At this point FALCON will interconnect seamlessly to Reliance's pan-India 80,000 km high-speed backbone network linking approx 1,100 cities and towns across the length and breadth of the country. From Chennai, on the East coast of India, FALCON will link India to Hong Kong where the cable will once again integrate with FLAG's global network.
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A wide variety of algae and invertebrates live in the Arabian Sea. Barracudas, damselfish, and wrasses dart among rocks and coral, while finless porpoises and a dozen species of dolphins make more of a splash. Green, hawksbill, olive ridley, and loggerhead turtles swim gracefully through the water as dugongs -- close relatives of manatees -- calmly graze on sea grass. Many whales spend time here, including minke, fin, blue, humpback, sperm, orca, and false killer. The Oman anemonefish and Arabian chromis, two endemic species, swim in and out of the reefs here.
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Since the beginning of civilization man has used the Arabian Sea as a trading route to the world's wealth. The first sea-trading route known to man passed through the sea. Shortly after 3000 B.C. ships raced along the coasts to southern Arabia and India, exchanging copper ore from Oman, teakwood from India, and incense from Arabia for wheat, cheese, and barley from northern kingdoms.
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