Sentences with phrase «research vessel floating»

They argue that it is highly unlikely that great whites will associate human presence with food since there is a huge difference (to sharks) between the sight and smell of a research vessel floating on the surface, and a human body being in the water.

But he was on a Canadian research vessel floating about 100 miles northwest of Vancouver.

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PACKED ICE Floating ice — 4 - or 5 - meters - thick in some places — choking the Weddell Sea ended a British Antarctic Survey research vessel's mission to the Larsen C ice shelf in February.

A multinational team on board the research vessel Joides Resolution, a «floating laboratory», is about to collect sediment samples from 1.5 kilometres beneath the ocean floor.

In what is billed as the world's first research program on autonomous floating vessels in metropolitan areas, autonomous boats will soon be deployed in the winding canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

For his research he makes use of research vessel based expeditions but also is increasingly using and advancing modern robotic platforms including profiling floats and gliders.

During a recent cruise of the New Zealand research vessel Tangaroa, skin sea - surface temperatures were measured to high accuracy by the Marine - Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M - AERI), and contemporaneous measurements of the bulk temperature were measured at a depth of ~ 5 cm close to the M - AERI foot print by a precision thermistor mounted in a surface - following float.