Sentences with phrase «tags float to the surface»

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The tags, which travel with the animal on its descent to the clouds of shrimplike krill, measure the animal's speed, depth, orientation and the number of times it beats its tail; they then pop off and float to the surface, ready to be retrieved by pursuing biologists.

After several months, the tags pop off, float to the surface and beam data via the ARGO satellite system back to computers on shore.

I particularly enjoyed the floating geometry of a gold rectangle against broad blue swathes of action painting, vocalizing on top of power chords, even as I wish he had abstained from the graffiti culture's obligation to tag everything with his initials right when the surface of the painting was shimmering with a certain delicacy.