New sea bed is constantly being created in the middles of the oceans - flowing out as hot lava, and rapidly cooling on contact with cold deep sea water.
Chagrined, I swam back to the boat for a spear, while the rest of the guys practiced the art of deep diving without gulping a mouthful of sea water.
At the weekend, the defence minister, Ahmad Mukhtar, announced that China would be taking over Gwadar, a deep-water Pakistani port on the Arabian Sea, turning it into a naval base.
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Sea water is pumped into the oil-bearing rocks deep below the seabed.
That said, many of the newly identified deposits are located in the central North Sea or to the west of Scotland, and will require deep-water drilling which is expensive.
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Deep water: area where surface waves are not influenced by the sea-bottom.
The news, however, suggests that Britain's Energy and Climate Change Committee will question Hayward about BP's ability to respond to an oil spill or other incident in the North Sea, as part of a government inquiry into the safety of deep water drilling in Britain.
Sediment-carrying rivers have been diverted, sea level has risen (increasing the volume of water in the lagoon), a deep-water channel has been dredged for shipping, and turbid waters are killing the eel grass that stabilises mud flats.
The flooding, which began on the night of 31 January, was caused by a combination of a high spring tide, deep atmospheric low pressure which raised sea levels and exceptionally strong northerly gales, which led to a surge of sea water over coastal defences.
In lieu of a big arms buildup, it is opening up a prized military asset, its deep-water port in Cam Ranh Bay, in the hopes that foreign navies will steam into the South China Sea and help secure the region's shipping lanes.
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