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The chief scientist for the voyage, UNSW Australia marine biologist Professor Iain Suthers, said the volcanoes were discovered in 4,900 meters of water during a search for nursery grounds for larval lobsters.

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However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

This deep water tunnel — a holding tank on steroids — comprises two legs roughly 300 feet (90 meters) belowground that can hold nearly 500 million gallons (1.9 billion liters) of sewage and storm water during a downpour.

The study's authors found that in the last 30 years of the study, the ice sheet gained nearly 5 meters (16 feet) more water than it did during the first 30 years of the studied time period.

During flooding episodes, the channel can divert up to 4,000 cubic meters (140,000 cubic feet) of water per second before it reaches the Winnipeg area.

Forming the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, during rainy season more than five hundred million cubic meters of water plummet over the two kilometer wide brink every minute.

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During peak flow season, the volume of water flowing over Niagara Falls averages a whopping 6,400 cubic meters per second.

They found that the lake was six times larger and water levels were 60 meters higher than present during the early and middle Holocene — the period beginning about 11,700 years ago, and encompassing the development of human civilization.

Warmer «mode waters» are gradually ventilated during the winter and huge amounts of heat stored at 100 meter depths are ventilated during an El Nino.

Basically, the warm water that was built up during the 1995/96 La Nina collected below the surface of an area in the western tropical Pacific known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool (to depths of 300 meters).

«There is abundant evidence for sea level rise of about six to nine meters (20 - 30 feet)[during this time period],» Severinghaus said, «and the question was where do we get that [water] from?

The corporation then billed the owner of unit 7 for disproportionate use of water during the period prior to the installation of a separate meter, asserting that the disproportionate water usage constituted a commercial use.

The Xperia X Performance, however, is built to be water - resistant, capable of handling 1.5 meters for 30 minutes or less — good news for those who love to bring their phones by the pool during the summer.

In addition to built - in GPS, the Huawei Band 2 Pro will also have a heart rate sensor for monitoring your heart rate continuously, and it will also be water resistant up to 50 meters so this will be a good fit for those who want to keep track of their heart rate during exercise as well as anyone who worries about sweat or rain damaging their trackers.