Sentences with phrase «ocean floor with»

«While they generally move along the ocean floor with their eight arms, they flee by swimming head - first, in line with the principles of propulsion.

Team up with Aqua Star to walk along the ocean floor with a breathable helmet, and then hop onto the seat of an underwater scooter to cruise the depths in style.

Local gossip has it that Gray Ghost went to the ocean floor with a hundred million dollars» worth of cocaine in the hull.

The NeMO Explorer allows students to take virtual tours of the ocean floor with a panorama, fly through and video clips or browse the collection of information related to the research.

Several tense scenes underwater: A sunken ship falls to the ocean floor with two men trapped inside; a diver is almost hit by submarine; a man almost drowns to death; a man almost freezes to death underwater; a submarine is entangled with a diver's air cables and almost knocks the diver unconscious.

They used baited remote underwater video systems — cameras lowered to the ocean floor with a small amount of bait — to survey sharks and other predators from the surrounding reef.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

NEPTUNE Canada is the leading effort to wire a wide region of ocean floor with multiple sensors, making real - time, interactive data streams freely available to anyone online.

The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and eastern Texas sits on an ancient ocean floor with salt layers that form domes as the lower - density salt rises.

Some 2000 metres of ice loaded what now is ocean floor with heavy weight.

At the time, 2 km thick ice - cover loaded what now is the ocean floor with heavy weight.

The beaches offer safe swimming or, for the more adventurous, you can catch some waves in a sea kayak or explore the ocean floors with diving or deep - sea fishing.

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Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor.

STEP 1 Laying a cable often begins with a survey of the ocean floor.

Approximately 90 % of excavated seabed would be returned to the ocean floor along with tailings, creating a sediment plume approximately 1000 square kilometres in size.

Located on the 2nd floor with views of the Hermosa Beach Pier and ocean.

The Lodging The retreat offers a select number of private, secluded villas, each overlooking the Indian Ocean, with contemporary furnishings, private plunge pools, and luxury amenities, like heated floors and eco-oil fireplaces and kitchens.

Bella Vista is one of the highest profile restaurants in Santa Barbara and the only dining venue in the city that features an open - air ocean view, marble terrace with heated floors, romantic fire pits and unobstructed views of the Channel Islands, making it the most desired lunch destinations in Montecito.

The spacious bathroom features a large soaking tub with a floor - to - ceiling glass surround that also proffers an ocean view.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

Another grand project under way is the Ocean Observatories Initiative, which aims to wire up the ocean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean fOcean Observatories Initiative, which aims to wire up the ocean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean focean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean focean floor.

When the newly multiplied bacteria died, they fell to the floor of those ocean shallows, stacking up layer by layer to decay and enrich the mud with phosphorus.

The ship is equipped with a SeaBeam system, which bounces a sonar signal off the ocean floor while tracing a back - and - forth swath over the area like a lawnmower.

Most of Earth was covered with ocean in the Archean era, and any asteroid scars on the ocean floor would have been recycled back into our planet's interior millions of years ago.

A few prefer to walk, including the little skate — a sandy - colored, wok - size pancake with a tail — that scissors its stubby hind fins back and forth to run along the northwestern Atlantic Ocean's sea floor in search of food.

With two such potentially catastrophic crustal configurations now known to exist on the planet, the finding suggests more such alignments may disfigure Earth's surface, a possibility that necessitates more thorough mapping of the ocean floor and tectonic plates.

These microseisms are generated as waves drag across the ocean floor or interact with each other.

Waves propagating with different wavelengths can cause wave «focusing,» in which the shape and size of obstacles and irregularities on the ocean floor cause the energy to compress at the front of the wave towards the shoreline.

As millions of tons of fishmeal are used every year with much of it sinking uneaten to the ocean floor, Jing Wang and colleagues wanted to see what its impact could be on the mariculture «resistome,» or collection of resistance genes.

In the first large - scale attempt to track fish with an acoustic tracking array on the sea floor, David Welch, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and his colleagues deployed a line of receivers on the sea floor, spaced roughly 1 km apart, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Instead of burrowing, they may be «sit - and - wait» ambush predators, with their blind side pressed flat against the ocean floor.

Furthermore, the lifeboats that got away stayed away until after the ship had filled with enough water for her stern to soar into the heavens and the hull to split into two gigantic pieces before plunging two miles down to the ocean floor.

But with each whale sunk, Smith learns a little bit more about one of the oddest and most fascinating habitats on the ocean floor.

Yet, this model of the quake does not match up well with the information from the ocean floor sensors — incorporating that data into future computer simulations should give a better picture of what actually happened during the massive tectonic event.

That began to change last year with the discovery of DNA sequences for an organism that no one has ever actually seen living near a deep - sea vent on the ocean floor.

Sprinkle the sea with OceanCubes The OceanCube, which is about double the size of an air conditioning radiator, is encased with plastic and is connected to steel - armored fiber optic cables snaking along the ocean floor.

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.

The combination of the two rock types, along with other geologic clues, could mean only one thing: They were standing on an ancient piece of the ocean floor.

With one he is hoping to get in on the ground floor of the old ocean - bottom manganese - nodule business, version 2.0, which he thinks is poised to take off in a decade or so.

It always hides in holes or nooks on the ocean floor and is associated with various urchins and sponges that live in rocky reefs.

The MARS observatory, a metal structure with a base measuring about 12 feet by 15 feet, rests quietly on the ocean floor and provides a docking station for the Eye.

With help from the ocean's natural wave action, the reduction in surface tension allows large surface slicks to separate into individual droplets that eventually sink to the sea floor.

Onboard our research vessel, the RV Sally Ride, are eight containers, each as large as a compact car, filled with sediment dredged from the deep Pacific Ocean floor.

Deploying new sensors that drift with sometimes strong currents (allowing better measurement of marine snow than sensors placed on the ocean floor or tethered to the surface), the team sampled the flora and fauna and measured the amount of falling carbon material captured to assess the role of the ocean as a true carbon sink.

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

One possibility, hashed out with James Cameron, director of the movie Titanic, would foster the development of three - man submarines that could dive to the ocean floor.

Results are pouring in from an ambitious project that has wired the floor of the northeast Pacific Ocean with an array of cameras, seismometers, chemical sensors and more.

The ocean floors are literally crawling with nematode worms.

The ocean floor teems with mineral treasures, but extracting them could jeopardize an unexplored alien world

It can make its skin whitish to blend in with the sandy bottom of the ocean floor and hide from predators or ambush prey.