Sentences with phrase «own ocean floor»

«The deep offshore industry is starting to move to the ocean floor.

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

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.

But perhaps more importantly, 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycle in reefs, despite the fact that they cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor.

STEP 5 Sometimes the cable is left to sink to the ocean floor and rest on the sandy bottom, but for the best protection from ship anchors, fishing nets and shark attacks, a sea plow or remotely operated vehicle may be used to bury cable between 1.5 and 3 metres below the bottom.

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

Dr. Shivji tells of sharks that use this extrasensory ability to hunt stingrays that hide beneath sediment on the ocean floor.

This adds length, and the excess cable forms a «U» shape on the ocean floor.

But if you blow a hole below the waterline, you can find yourself facing gushers of water pouring in, pulling you toward the ocean floor.

Every year, moreover, producers add to global reserves, whether through unlocking natural gas shale formations, oil sands bitumen plays, or drilling deep into 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.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

Hydrostor's proprietary technology is based on a simple idea: Anchor a low - cost air cavity to the bottom of a lake or ocean floor, and store energy for use when it is most needed.

The team onboard the Nautilus boat is also livestreaming footage they capture from the ocean floor, so you can look at more cool creatures in real - time, and listen to the crew's commentary about all of the weird stuff they find.

Just as an anchor plunges deep to the ocean floor to secure a ship, the scriptures pull people's minds deep into the core of their being to experience focused prayer.

Bacteria far, far, far precede humans on Earth; they have survived numerous catastrophes; and they inhabit virtually every location on the Earth, including frozen Antarctica and super-hot thermal vents on the ocean floors.

Therefore, we don't need water high enough to cover Mount Everest, we just need some geological plate shifting so that mountains rise up and ocean floors drop.

Our oceans are being decimated — deep - sea trawlers are clear - cutting our ocean floors leaving vast wastelands.

She wonders if the voluntary simplicity movement is like «a change in the geography of the ocean floor that's creating a swell on the surface but won't impact the shore.

A robot BP was using under the water in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally bumped a vent, causing BP to have to remove the containment cap that was siphoning off some of the oil gushing from the ocean floor.

Yet we know that life on Earth can thrive in extreme conditions: from the Antarctic (where temperatures can drop to almost -90 °C) to hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor (where temperatures can exceed 460 °C).

It is near the ocean that the giant cat fish causes tsunamis by beating his tail on the ocean floor.

It is reducing habitat for fish reproduction such as mangrove groves and degrading the ocean floor.

As we explored the ocean floor, taking a tour that was the perfect balance of informative and fun, we could see the dramatic rides in the tide, literally before our eyes.

Visitors can walk the ocean floor at low tide, and hours later kayak in 4 stories of water where they had just stood.

I vaguely collect reading that there was a lot of methane on the ocean floor (as methane clathrate), plus occasional pockets of oil (through accumulation of perished marine life).

2 Under the Ocean Floor Several teams are currently hunting for life beneath the seabed.

The most likely explanations are that the missing plastic is sinking to the ocean floor, perhaps after being eaten and excreted, or is breaking down into pieces so small they are not being detected.

Some preschoolers scurry across ocean floors carrying toy versions of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

They gush along the ocean floor and can wipe out the internet.

Since then, many other possible crucibles have been identified: deep underground, in the open ocean, by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, on a radioactive beach and on the surface of a lump of clay.

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.

A newly discovered reservoir of rare earths, which are needed for high - tech, automotive and renewable energy applications, may remain on the ocean floor for some time

Those analyses are likely to take several weeks, but should provide important insights about the composition of the global ocean beneath Enceladus» surface and any hydrothermal activity occurring on the ocean floor.

They build colonies that rise from the ocean floor to form the colorful, whimsical structures that people know as reefs.

Craig McClain holds a giant isopod specimen similar to the one he saw on the ocean floor during his first deep - sea dive.

They're typically found on the ocean floor in large groups.

Investigators knew from ocean floor sediments that the climate was unstable at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs were making their last stand.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

Little skates use two footlike fins on their undersides to move along the ocean floor.

When successful, this will open a whole new avenue to investigating the ocean floor that complements traditional approaches using very large drill ships such as the JOIDES Resolution.

From the great ocean liner's construction to its sinking to its discovery on the ocean floor, the key moments in the Titanic's history.

Even in the deepest, darkest, most inaccessible location on the planet, the impact of human civilization is still evident on the ocean floor.

As a result, not only is the majority of the ocean floor unmapped, but an estimated 60 % to 90 % of marine species are still unknown to science.

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 floor.

Ultra-strong flexible pipes, remote flow - control valves, and vibration - resistant drill rigs can protect the prospecting equipment against corrosion, thermal shock, and crushing water pressure at the ocean floor.

Scientists have shown that temperature differences deep within Earth's mantle control the elevation and volcanic activity along mid-ocean ridges, the colossal mountain ranges that line the ocean floor.

On the deep ocean floor, for instance, more than 80 percent of the species being found are unknown.

He also said that their feeding pattern is distinct because the area where they've settled has a limited supply of food available on the ocean floor, and an abundance near the surface.

SHAKY GROUND Researchers drag sensors across the ocean near New Zealand to study ocean floor vibrations, adding data to the debate about how the Earth moves deep underground.