Mermaids, The New Evidence

2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
4. an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997.
8. an official elected or appointed to act as chief executive or nominal head of a city, town, or borough.
9. a navigable submersible for deep-sea exploration having a spherical watertight cabin attached to its underside.
12. a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena.
13. a mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish.
14. island between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Greenland and just south of the Arctic Circle.
17. any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing.
18. a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.

1. a presentation (such as a film or novel) expressing or dealing with factual events.
3. the part of the land adjoining or near the sea.
5. a person who explores a new or unfamiliar area.
6. something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance.
7. a nation's ships of war and of logistic support.
10. any of a family of erect bipedal primate mammals that includes recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms
11. a shaft or hole sunk to obtain oil, brine, or gas.
15. any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia.
16. a great body of salt water that covers much of the earth.