Sentences with phrase «under the ocean bottom»

Tankers docking at the station would have regasified the fuel and pumped it through pipes buried at least 15 feet under the ocean bottom, including a 22 - mile - long main that would hook up to an existing delivery system.

Not exact matches

This thin sliver of ocean reaching under the ice turned out to be 10 meters deep, and the camera came to rest on the bottom beneath it, revealing it to be muddy and strewn with pebbles — a flat, barren tract, devoid of any obvious signs of large marine life such as brittle stars, sponges or worms.

Foley's team tested an autonomous diving robot that could search the ocean bottom for hours under its own command.

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 sensors allow researchers to create detailed images of the bedrock and structures under the ocean's bottom.

Under pressure The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER's ability to linger at the ocean bottom for an extended period of time means scientists on future dives might be able to study microbes such as actinomycetes in their natural environments.

Though it's not under the water in Bikini Bottom, the whimsical accommodations are near the ocean, as the new resort is perched on Uvero Alto beach in the Dominican Republic.

Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the ocean food chain that so much of marine life depends on, drift with the ocean currents, but sometimes come together in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.

The methane discussion above fascinates, I do nt think we know everything about it, since a lot of it is under sea ice at bottom of arctic ocean.

Methane hydrate forms in cold temperatures and under high pressure — conditions that can be found at the bottom of the ocean.

As the grounding line becomes deeper and deeper as the ice melts back under a retrograde slope of the ocean bottom, this effect should increase.

Visit the data page and scroll to the bottom under the «Globe» column to get the latest decadal trend — also listed are trends for each hemisphere, land, ocean, poles, tropics etc..

When it touches the ocean bottom, we can use submersibles to undercut the sea bottom from under the ring where it touches, until it touches the bottom all the way round.