Sentences with phrase «of submersible»

Insurance companies will often insure against injury, liability, property damage, and medical costs for a traditional PWC, but may not want to take on the risk of a submersible watercraft.

previously only accessible through the use of submersible equipment.

That subject, which has often been riffed on since - most recently in the 2016 Blake Lively thriller «The Shallows» and in the series of «Sharknado» cable comedies - resurfaces with a thriller about an expert deep - sea rescue diver (Statham) who must save the crew of a submersible vessel that has been attacked by a 75 - foot - long prehistoric shark known as megalodon.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.

You simply have 8 minutes to collect sample animals that appear in front of your submersible.

Even now, in the age of submersibles, many of the jellies caught below 3,000 feet are so delicate that they do not survive to the surface or, if they do, they get damaged during transfer from one container to another.

When we were in the methane ice in the Gulf of Mexico, we used one of our submersibles that has 360 - degree visibility because you're sitting in a plastic bubble.

The study, published in the open - access journal PeerJ, spanned more than two decades and involved a combination of submersibles, remotely operated vehicles, drop - cameras, data recorders, and advanced mixed - gas diving to study these difficult - to - reach environments.

Until now, estimates of how many animals make their own light have been mostly based on «qualitative observations made by researchers peering out the windows of submersibles,» notes MBARI.

Not exact matches

If the cable is close to the surface, a small submersible may be sent down instead of the grappling hooks.

It has expanded quickly in the United States and Canada, and in May announced it had installed its 8,000 th electric submersible pump (ESP), an increase of 1,000 since November.

After initial talks with Summit last year, Halliburton shifted its focus to reaching an agreement with Novomet Oil Services Holdings, a Russian supplier of electric submersible pumps that has operations in about 17 countries.

As continuously circulating steam heat flows throughout the submersible heating elements, the entire surface of the Steam Shell Griddle is heated to a precise and uniform temperature.

This adorable little snail is completely submersible and safe for kiddos to play with in and out of the bathtub.

In science news around the world, the upgraded Alvin deep - sea submersible prepares to return to scientific service, researchers urge the Spanish government to rescind approval of a drug linked to vulture deaths, and more.

Whether she's designing submersibles, swimming with the whales, or taking deep - water walks, Sylvia has dedicated her life to learning more about what she calls «the blue heart of the planet.»

Submersibles have caught two species of little - studied Gonatus squid eating each other deep in the waters of California's Monterey Bay

On August 2, a pair of 18 - ton Russian submersibles, Mir - I and Mir - II, plunged more than two miles down into the Arctic Ocean and planted a titanium capsule containing their nation's flag on the seabed at the North Pole.

At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.

Edith Widder (left) and pilot Craig Caddigan sit in the Johnson - Sea - Link submersible, which is capable of going to depths of 3,000 feet.

It takes several hours to prepare the submersible for the dive, and after seven to eight hours on the seafloor, another round of work is needed to prepare the sub for its next -LSB-...]

In fact, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife put submersible vehicles off Oregon's coast during a hypoxic event that went anoxic (oxygenless) in 2006, he says, monitoring conditions and recording numerous carcasses of sea stars, sea cucumbers, marine worms and fish.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.

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.

1986 July Ballard returns to the Titanic with Alvin, a deep - diving submersible, and Jason, a remotely operated vehicle, to take pictures of the wreck.

Based on this finding, NIST researchers suggest gas stations may need to replace submersible pump casings, typically made of steel or cast iron, sooner than expected.

Then in March, a team of deep - sea scientists led by Craig Young of the University of Oregon and Adele Pile of the University of Sydney returned with a submersible to look for life.

Despite images from early submersible expeditions of ghostly white dust settling onto a sandy floor, the deep sea is not a desert, Pusceddu says.

«Regarding the large fish we observed in the submersible dives, a real concern is that they could migrate to shallower depths as well and eat many of the fish there.

But high - definition submersible cameras captured images of abundant life nearly five miles beneath the surface of the Pacific.

Oceanlab researchers made these discoveries last fall during a two - week expedition to the Japan Trench off the northeast coast of Japan, using submersible camera platforms engineered to withstand the extreme conditions.

Today in a written statement to ScienceInsider, Holdren suggested that traffic among the submersibles is among the reasons that the government doesn't know more about the size of the leak:

While he was working at Oregon State two decades ago, some of his colleagues explored a seafloor hot spring near the Galápagos Islands and brought back specimens of giant white clams collected with the submersible Alvin.

Alvin replacement Function: A manned submersible with five windows — two more than the current workhorse, called Alvin — this craft dives 6,500 feet deeper, putting 99 percent of the ocean within its range.

I claim this Pole in the name of the Kremlin Arctic explorer and patriotic Russian Artur Chilingarov descended 14,000 feet in a submersible on Thursday to plant a titanium flag under the North Pole, symbolizing his nation's claim to the Lomonsov Ridge, which is thought to contain up to 10 billion barrels of oil, according to the London Telegraph.

Bioblitzes have taken a remote - controlled submersible under Oakland's Lake Merritt, and in the future may take to the skies via drones, through a U.S. Geological Survey collaboration, to collect environmental data, such as the paths of migrating animals.

According to Julian Paren of the British Antarctic Survey, submersibles like the adapted torpedo have an important part to play in ice research because it is virtually impossible for research ships to go near pack ice, especially in winter.

Using special diving suits and submersibles, they have even entered the habitat of deep - sea organisms, watching in awe as the water world lit up with bursts of color that sparkled like fireworks.

Geochemists explored the outcrop in a tiny submersible vehicle, hoping to collect samples of the warm fluids that emerge from cracks in the rocks; they didn't count on finding dozens of octopuses huddled around the cracks.

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland are running experiments with an automated submersible that has a camera designed to record bioluminescent signals as it descends through the ocean and lands on the seafloor.

Rack and his team drilled a hole through the 890 - foot - thick (270 meters) ice shelf and lowered down a robotic vehicle known as the SCINI ROV (Submersible Capable of under - Ice Navigation and Imaging - Remotely Operated Vehicle) on a tether.

The challenging part: Marine biologists are able to explore the Mothra Field in submersibles, but an expedition requires funding and years of planning.

They will use one of the Autosub Long Range class of unmanned submersibles, the latest type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the NOC, now known as Boaty McBoatface, following last year's campaign by the Natural Environment Research Council to name the UK's new polar research ship.

The submersible will travel back and forth through an abyssal current of Antarctic Bottom Water along the Orkney Passage while measuring the intensity of the turbulence.

Other manned submersibles can not dive deeper than about seven kilometers, says Lutz, who has made more than 85 underwater voyages on board the mini sub Alvin and was part of the first deep - sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in 1979, when he was a postdoc at Yale University.

A group of researchers diving in Alvin, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's submersible, last month discovered a huge field of hot vents 320 kilometres west of the Azores at a depth of 1600 metres — lying along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Jesús Pineda from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and colleagues were exploring the diverse ecosystem at the underwater mountains when a submersible spotted thousands of red crabs in cloudy waters at a depth of 355 metres.

SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a ghostly city of gnarled white towers looms over the submersible.

That's because his center runs two of the three manned research submersibles based in the United States, as well as a new remotely operated vehicle.

Gawell said successful deployment of the electric submersible pump could greatly expand opportunities for EGS.