The men could not climb out, because the ice surface was nearly vertical, and they huddled together for warmth.

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Whether or not a caisson was used, the oil from the containment assembly would then pass through a manifold a sort of switching yard for pipes to one or more floating risers leading to the surface and held vertical by buoys.

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If approved by Lancashire County Council the well will be 8.5in (22cm) in diameter and extend approximately 1km from the current vertical well, more than a mile beneath the surface.

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The IT arm of NYSE Euronext announced beta of Capital Markets Community Platform, its cloud computing offering this week, and the effort, on the surface, is a good example for other vertical markets to follow.

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It will be drilled to vertical depths of 8, 000 to 12, 000 feet below surface.

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Then there's the vertical bounce of the ball which is affected by the stiffness of the surface.

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First, though, he had to dive through a 40-foot vertical patch of murky, water-oil mixture that began 20 feet below the surface.

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