They expose how tectonic action is dragging giant volcanoes into a chasm in the seabed.
Udo Barckhausen, a geophysicist on board the Sonne, told CNN that the 7-meter (22-foot) buoys are programmed to detect changes in the seabed, and send alerts to the Indonesian mainland.
The same cannot be said for living resources in the deep seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction, for which there is a clear legal and policy gap.
This article is based on a report co-authored by Salvatore Arico and Charlotte Salpin and published in 2005 by the Institute of Advanced Study of the United Nations University, entitled Bio-prospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed.
Neither UNCLOS nor the Convention on Biological Diversity regulates the use of living resources found beyond continental shelves or Exclusive Economic Zones. (Within these Zones, the related provisions of UNCLOS, which favour essentially national interests, would apply.) Living resources in the deep seabed were unknown when UNCLOS was being negotiated.
They are already pioneering exploration in neglected spots such as the seabed off West Africa and in the Arctic.
Martin Attrill, Professor of Marine Ecology at the University Of Plymouth, said the trial would see maerl taken up from the seabed in areas "the size of a badminton court", resettled and then the impact judged.
The Wave Hub, an electric "socket" for testing wave energy machines off the north Cornwall coast, has been unused since it was installed on the seabed in 2010, but managers say the first device is expected to be connected this year.
They point to the relatively small size of the Kingston, Jamaica-based international bureaucracy that has operated the International Seabed Authority in obscurity over the last 25 years.
Even the most potentially disturbing suggestion, which involves fertilising the oceans with iron in order to promote the growth of planktonic algae (in the hope that they would sink to the seabed, taking their carbon with them), can be covered by the London Convention on marine pollution, which regulates dumping at sea, and has already addressed itself to research in the area.
The body of Mr Craig, from Portland, was recovered from the seabed in Lyme Bay by a trawler on 9 August.
Since the initial repairs were carried out last winter, another fault has developed in one of the cables on the seabed about seven kilometres from the Scottish coast.
So Iran has a correspondingly strong interest in claiming a share of the seabed beyond.
The company said it would be the biggest subsea engineering project it had undertaken in the UK, and the first ever with so many seabed crossings.
As the drill progresses through the rock and sand below the seabed, the pressure of the mud in the drill string must be kept within a limited range.
The two companies "are confident that we can safely drill in the Kara Sea and avoid hazards from radioactive materials on the seabed", Exxon Mobil said.
The wreckage was later recovered from the seabed and transported to the AAIB headquarters at Farnborough in Hampshire.
The trust had been planning to open the museum in 2012 in time for the 30th anniversary of being raised from the seabed, but that date was revised.
The pressure in the capped-off well could blow a new hole in it, letting oil and gas leak out through the seabed.
The museum is due to open in the spring, marking 31 years since the hull was raised from the Solent seabed.
Mr. Gaffney warned against the significant erosion in U.S. sovereignty that would attend U.S. endorsement of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) - a supranational organization with unprecedented powers to regulate seven-tenths of the earth's surface, levy taxes, govern ocean research and exploration, and create a multinational court to render and enforce its judgments.
Built on the seabed 10 m below the surface in Key Largo, Florida, the inn (formerly a research facility) caters to deep-sea divers and scuba novices prepared to take a three-hour crash course.
Passengers and crew escaped but left behind a fortune in precious cargo which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic seabed.
We then began our descent back to the river, scrambling down natural staircases sculpted in an ancient seabed.
Mr McFarlane complains about creelers, who place pots baited with rotting fish on the seabed and wait for inquisitive prawns to crawl in.
In a move without precedent and with ominous implications, the International Seabed Authority would have the power to impose what amounts to taxes on American citizens.
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Only weeks earlier, a Lockheed unit in the United Kingdom was granted an exploration license by the International Seabed Authority to mine polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico.
President Ronald Reagan recognized that the terms and institutional arrangements inherent in the treaty including, but not limited to, seabed mining were adverse to this country insofar as they were intended and designed to establish and empower a supranational government.
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"As this is a new technology, we do not know its full environmental impacts, for example on large marine animals like seals and cetaceans, and seabed species and habitats located downstream of the proposal in the lough, " she said.
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