Remember that USS Enterprise-esque ocean research vessel we first ran across back in 2005?
By the time he reaches the other end and looks back, he feels more as if he were standing on a dock gazing up at the prow of a huge ocean-going vessel, perhaps one of Pessoa's dream ships.
But the ultimate challenge will be to see whether their vessel can plumb the ocean's deepest point.
The New York Times recently pointed out that if the vessel breaks apart in the ocean it could send thousands of plastic bottles into the ocean.
The ship's power is set to come from solar, wind and wave power with biofuel in case nature doesn't cooperate -- when the vessel isn't adrift via ocean currents.
Soon after the remote camera mounted on Ballard's undersea robot, Argo, spotted the vessel's massive boiler on the ocean floor, Ballard was calling ABC, NBC and CBS from his ship's radio.
Getting the 251-foot-long ship to the bottom of the ocean was easy, unlike the effort to obtain the vessel.
Happy Feet was released from the research vessel Tangaroa on 4 September into the Southern Ocean about 50 miles (80km) north of the remote Campbell Island.
Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto and two other Guinea-Bissau nationals were taken into custody Tuesday aboard a vessel in international waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean while two others were arrested Thursday in a West African country and later transferred to U.S. custody, the release said.
The main tow line was attached from a towing vessel earlier in the day in preparation for the refloating when ocean conditions were favorable.
Additionally, the RACE FOR WATER flagship vessel could launch Argo floats during its journey around the world as a contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
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