Then she dropped a 50lb weight overboard to hold the line to the ocean floor.
This dissolves carbon dioxide and hides it away on the ocean floor as calcium carbonate.
"Up to 700, 000 tcf of methane hydrates lie beneath the ocean floor and the Arctic, " Mulva said.
Installed on the ocean floor, tidal machines also handily dodge the aesthetic concerns posed by offshore wind turbines.
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Satellites give us a broad overview of the ocean floor, ISIS and other robots give us the detail.
When investigators located the floatplane wreckage on the ocean floor, beer cans were found near the passenger seats.
But to protect against uncontrolled releases, or blowouts, a valve assembly must be lowered to the ocean floor.
Although hybrid vehicles have been designed before, Nereus will be the first to visit the entire ocean floor.
After all, they laughed at him when he wanted to lay high-speed broadband cable across the ocean floor.
Every long stretch of fiber, especially if it lies on the ocean floor, needs these lasers by the thousands.
That was beyond the reach of conventional drilling platforms, which stand on steel legs anchored to the ocean floor.
The high prices fetched for copper, gold and rare-earth minerals are leading to a surge in interest in mining the ocean floor.
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The Thresher sank toward the ocean floor after losing power, until it imploded below crush depth into thousands of pieces.
They are also engaged in ongoing research into the amount of methane hydrate under this area of the ocean floor.
None of those vulnerable relays high atop the Rockies, and suddenly no more need for laying cable on the ocean floor.
The buoys, which measure movement on the surface, are linked to sensors, placed on the ocean floor to detect sea activity.
The earthquake occurred some 25 miles below the ocean floor and resulted in a tsunami warning for the coast of Miyagi prefecture.
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These breakthroughs allow oil to be sucked economically from far beneath the ocean floor, and out of depleted and formerly abandoned wells.
Suddenly he was in 55-degree water, corkscrewing to the ocean floor.
How about wall maps, 3-D relief maps, world maps, classroom maps, topographical maps, satellite maps, special projections, even maps of the ocean floor?
In 2009, the U.S. Navy accused Chinese sailors of harassing one of its ocean floor mapping vessels in a game of high-seas chicken.
The ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea is expected to be mined for copper by the end of the decade.
Bottom trawling, which involves raking the ocean floor for food on a huge scale, leaves behind wastelands where there had been complex ecosystems.
Although continental crust is more or less permanent, the ocean floor is constantly recycled by the tectonic processes that bring about continental drift.
Present-day fishing trawlers in the North Sea occasionally dredge up the bones and tusks of the mastodons and other game from the ocean floor.
Without their fins, sharks cannot swim and they sink to the ocean floor, where they're picked at by other fish and left to die.
For example, its governing body would be empowered to impose what amount to international taxes on resources extracted from the ocean floor and subsurface.
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At the end of their lifetime -- usually only a few days -- they fall to the ocean floor carrying with them the CO2.
This fall Portmann will send one to hover over tsunami sensors embedded on the ocean floor to collect data and beam it back to shore.
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The aircraft's voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered from the ocean floor in May 2011 after an extensive search using miniature submersible vehicles.
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