Specialized ships conduct surveys of the ocean bottom, plotting routes over and around underwater mountains.
There are no breasts, little backstabbing, no drinking or drugs, and the only violence is machines cutting into huge tracts of pristine wilderness and ocean bottom.
In fact, it was at the dawn of the JFK era 51 years ago when the U.S. Navy sent sent the first and only mission to the Challenger Deep when a submersible called the Trieste spent 20 minutes on the ocean bottom.
But the incident stirred a fierce debate here about yo-yoing, a technically challenging but potent technique that involves stuffing a bait fish with lead weight so it will sink to the ocean's bottom where big stripers lie.
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The site takes visitors on a virtual journey to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.
These microbes are found just about everywhere--in the soil, at the bottom of the ocean, inside our bodies.
On this view of things, the methane at the bottom of the ocean is something to worry about.
Getting the 251-foot-long ship to the bottom of the ocean was easy, unlike the effort to obtain the vessel.
The cause of the ship's demise, however, remains at the bottom of the ocean with the rest of the wreckage.
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He thinks the liberation of methane stored at the bottom of the ocean in structures called clathrates is the most likely culprit.
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It seems that Garriott, who has been to the South Pole and the bottom of the ocean, is running out of adventures down here.
Their infighting can be compared to pirates arguing over the division of their stolen loot as their ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
The day that the rig collapsed and fell to the bottom of the ocean, I had my team in the Oval Office that first day.
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It would be like risking the vinous equivalent of the bends, the decompression sickness of deep-sea divers who ascend too quickly from the bottom of the ocean.
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The reality is this: As common as the live video feeds from the bottom of the ocean have become, the robots that get those images might as well be on another planet.
Right here on Earth, surprisingly hardy life-forms have been found inside hot underground rocks, around scalding volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean, in desiccated Antarctic valleys and deep beneath polar ice.
The Brent Spar platform was obsolete and after evaluating options and conferring with the UK government, Shell announced the company would blow a hole in it and sink it to the bottom of the ocean.
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Most models set up to try to figure out what happened during the Late Cretaceous climate changes conclude that water sank from the surface to the bottom of the ocean around Antarctica or the North Pacific.
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The giant rocket engines that propelled mankind to the moon have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
All 230 aboard were killed and the accident is still unexplained, even though officials have recovered nearly all of the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
But the true meaning of the Anthropocene is that we have affected nearly every aspect of our environment from a warming atmosphere to the bottom of an acidifying ocean.
Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.
Bottom trawling, which involves raking the ocean floor for food on a huge scale, leaves behind wastelands where there had been complex ecosystems.
Then in 2005 a Greenpeace report accused the company of encouraging bottom trawling, a powerful fishing method that damages ocean ecosystems, with its purchase agreements.
The billionaires are bankrolling expeditions to reach the deepest place in the ocean, a spot called the Challenger Deep that lies at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles below the surface of the South Pacific.
Since cesium binds to the sediment on the ocean floor, the radiation has likely had the biggest effect on bottom-dwelling fish and other animals though the consequences still aren't clear, said Tatsuo Aono, a specialist at Japan's National Institute of Radiological Sciences.
The room sits on the bottom of a three-level floating structure, located 250m from shore in the Indian Ocean.
This weekend, in addition to being the groundbreaking time when a national institution auctions off oversized goldfish, is also the time that we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Trieste descending to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth 7 miles beneath the shiny waves of the Pacific Ocean.
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