Sentences with phrase «about a meter deep»

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That wind - driven circulation change leads to cooler ocean temperatures on the surface of the eastern Pacific, and more heat being mixed in and stored in the western Pacific down to about 300 meters (984 feet) deep, said England.

The Odyssey IV can do all this to about 6,000 meters down, some three and three - quarter miles below the surface which means that this machine is well suited to its main goal the study of deep sea coral.

The sea is probably 100 to 200 meters deep and frigid, about — 183 ° to — 193 ° Celsius.

The rariphotic occurs just below a previously defined reef zone, the mesophotic, which extends from about 40 to as deep as 150 meters (about 120 - 450 feet).

As the researchers move deeper into the harder granites of the peak ring, they will core more slowly, obtaining a 3 - meter core about every 2 hours.

The authors defined the rariphotic based on depth observations of about 4,500 fishes representing 71 species during approximately 80 submersible dives to as deep as 309 meters.

The tests indicated that the deepest layer of artifacts — between about 2.15 and 2.6 meters below the surface — ranged in age from about 53,000 to 65,000 years.

Superior is about 406 meters deep at its greatest point, so it is particularly vulnerable to such shifts.

Then the researchers injected about 50 liters of liquid CO2 into several plastic corrals in the ocean, 3600 meters deep, from a remotely operated vehicle.

The prototype technology, called Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response (FINDER) can locate individuals buried as deep as 30 feet (about 9 meters) in crushed materials, hidden behind 20 feet (about 6 meters) of solid concrete, and from a distance of 100 feet (about 30 meters) in open spaces.

It appeared that the lake, which is about 50 meters (165 feet) deep in the middle and has steep slopes, is shaped like a funnel or an inverted cone, a structure that is difficult to explain.

But in about one dive of every six, the animals dove deep — on average, to depths of about 340 meters — and spent about 145 minutes there, presumably foraging.

The communities under the spill are about 1500 meters deep, but life has been found much deeper elsewhere in the ocean, as this handsome chart shows.

During 48 dives in August 2011, each lasting an average of 6 minutes and reaching more than 300 meters deep, the sea lion's lungs collapsed at about 225 meters down — and then re-expanded at the same depth during the mammal's ascent.

The deposit there is about 1,500 meters long by 100 meters wide (about a mile long and 300 feet wide), but Nautilus can not say how deep it is — except that in many places it is deeper than the 20 - meter (about 65 - foot) exploratory holes that the company has drilled into it.

At the moment, sewage from hotels and resorts is generally pumped into deep - injection wells 90 meters (about 300 feet) below ground level, sometimes straight into undersea caves.

The cave runs more than 100 meters deep and is about 3 meters high.

The sinkhole, which filled with slurry — a fluid mixture of water and pulverized solids — has gradually expanded and now measures about 25 acres (10.1 hectares) and is at least 750 feet (229 meters) deep.

Over an area of about a quarter acre, we needed to remove not only the 19th - century backfill but also the rubble from cave collapses that had filled several deep natural cavities to a depth of more than four meters.

«Going into deeper water is not something we're comfortable doing yet,» says Jim Lanard a spokesperson for Bluewater Wind, a company that has proposed a wind park 13.2 miles (21.2 kilometers) from the Delaware shore that will employ monopiles to depths of about 75 feet (23 meters).

The deepest dives were about 500 meters and lasted no more than three hours at a time.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

Six - meter - long (about 20 feet) Moby recorded one of the deepest known dives for whale sharks (1,856 meters, or 6,089 feet!)

They don't reach sexual maturity for two years, and when they reproduce, they must release their eggs in water roughly 1,000 meters (or about 3,200 feet) deep.

The researchers collected the samples by boring a hole that tapped into the spring in a deep fracture zone about 200 meters underground.

The Vikos canyon is about 900 meters deep and approximately the same width.

If you are taking the Advanced program but aren't sure about making the wreck dive, it's also the perfect place to make your deep dive to 30 meters, fish identification dive and even a night dive!

The Channel itself is about 30 ft (9 meters) deep, with occasionally strong tidal currents.

There are also manta rays in this area of Apo Island, but they are in the deeper parts of the sea, about 20 - 30 meters down.

A relatively deep dive, the average depth here is about 27 - 30 meters.

The steps are 1.3 ish meters long, and only about 2 inch deep, so enough space to get a pram down.

The steering house is at about 10 meters below the surface while the propellers rest at the deepest point of 32 meters.

The wrecks average about 60 feet (18 meters) in depth with some being shallower and others deeper.

The Gladden and Queen entrances give access to and from the deep sea, though neither have greater depth than about 8 meters, insufficient for ocean - going shipping, particularly as the bathymetry becomes complex around the cayes with numerous coral heads and shoals.

It's about 8 meters deep (26 feet) and there are different exhibits throughout.

At the shallow reef, about 2 meters deep, it was great snorkeling.

Formed by the collapse of a cavern, the Blue Hole measures about 8 meters (26 feet) deep and is almost perfectly round with a diameter of 100 meters (330 feet).

It left a nearly perfect circular hole about 300 m across and over hundred meter deep.

Over a shallow sandy area about 3 to 5 meters deep, but still much to see.again with this dive site you really need to make at least two dive here to see everything as it is a large dive site.

The Blue Hole is a cylindrical hole about 500 meters in diameter and 134M / 440ft deep.

The main deck is about 15 meters deep.

You make a big deal about «instantaneous», but even mixing in the upper 50 meters is not «instantaneous», so it really boils down to how fast heat gets mixed to deep layers.

Plumes of rising methane bubbles have been mapped off the coast of Svalbard to where the water is about 400 meters deep — the edge of the stability zone for hydrates.

«As a result, ocean waters deeper than 500 meters (about 1,600 feet) have a large but still unrealized absorption capacity... As emissions slow in the future, the oceans will continue to absorb excess CO2... into ever - deeper layers... eventually, 50 to 80 percent of CO2 cumulative emissions will likely reside in the oceans»

Recently there have been some widespread misconceptions about heat accumulation in the oceans, particularly in the deeper layers below 700 meters.

They also found that, consistent with my team's research, about 30 % of overall global warming has gone into the deep oceans below 700 meters due to changing wind patterns and ocean currents.

The Atlantic annual formation of deep water has the volume of about one meter layer of surface water of the oceans based on a rapid calculation I made.

Eyeball Mark I suggests that deeper waters (OHC to 700 meters) have probably warmed about 1.5 C since 1955, and the surface a bit less — maybe.8 C or so?

The warming reached a depth of about 10,000 feet (4,000 meters), interfering with the normal circulation process in which colder surface water descends, taking oxygen and nutrients deep into the ocean.

At present, co-author and oceanography associate professor Evan Solomon is analyzing the chemical composition of bubble plume samples emitted at about 500 meters deep off the Washington coast, seeing whether the gas comes from methane hydrates instead of other sources.