THE INDIAN OCEAN: It bathes the eastern coasts of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and those of South Asia to the western ones of the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands and Australia, being its width of 10,000 km. Its surface represents 20% of the world's marine spaces; its volume is estimated at 292'130,000 km. It is the warmest and the one with more salinity. This ocean is heavily trafficked by oil ships from its sources in the Gulf of Indonesia to markets in Southeast Asia, but also through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean.