Well, we have the obvious idea that Rapture is Columbia, sunk under the ocean instead of floating above it.
Petersburg for long stretches since the 1970s, is buried under the ocean.
High oil prices and dwindling land reserves are pushing oil and gas companies to exploit hydrocarbon reserves that lie deep under the ocean.
New reserves are much tougher to find and must be pried loose from wily dictators or from deposits deep under the ocean bed or in sandpits--and that costs big bucks.
The island nation of Cuba is scrambling to secure access to what it believe to be about 5 billion barrels of oil lying deep under the ocean off its northern coast.
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Chevron miscalculated its drilling of its Frade field last November, an oil well just under the ocean floor in the Santos Basin in Brazil, about 70 kilometers off coastal Rio de Janeiro.
Unlike these rival claimants to the South China Sea, Taiwan has not cast under the ocean floor for an estimated 213 billion barrels of oil and 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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It took four searches over the course of nearly two years to locate the bulk of Flight 447's wreckage and the majority of the bodies in a mountain range deep under the ocean.
For opponents of offshore drilling, Deepwater Horizon remains a rallying cry the perfect example of just how wrong things can go when we try to extract the vast reserves of oil that lie under the ocean.
Scientists have found creatures thriving in places that would poison or cook most life on earth--deep inside rock, under the ocean or in hot springs, places that are extremely salty, or acidic, or bathed in radiation or heavy metals.
Today, hundreds of floats deployed under the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), coordinated by UNESCO and largely supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), are used to measure ocean temperature, salinity and tsunami risk.
INPEX, a Japanese company, plans to pipe gas from the Ichthys field, under the Indian Ocean, and process it in Darwin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2016.
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Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.
During that October practice run, the Oracle team's upturned boat ended up drifting from the San Francisco Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge and four miles into the open Pacific Ocean before the team could get it under control.
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) also contributes directly to the actions under the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change as the ocean component of the Global Climate Observation System (GCOS).
They are also engaged in ongoing research into the amount of methane hydrate under this area of the ocean floor.
In 2009, he was part of a team that attempted to row the South Atlantic Ocean in under 30 days, but the boat lost its rudder and they were forced to postpone the attempt.
About 15 countries conduct anti-piracy naval patrols in the Indian Ocean under various hats.
Prof Torsvik said that he believed pieces of Mauritia could be found about 10km down beneath Mauritius and under a swathe of the Indian Ocean.
BBC: Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean
Now, after a year of operations in the Indian Ocean for Argo Australia, under UNESCO, and JCOMM, the Lady Amber will be making landfall in Perth Australia, where she will be greeted by our Perth Regional Programme Office and Australia's CSIRO.
Petrobras alone is targeting up to 50 bn barrels of oil 190 miles offshore over a mile below the ocean surface and under three miles of rock.
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The main message of the expo is that the well-being of humankind is linked to that of the ocean, which is under threat: global cooperation is needed.
In general, while you can find rooms for under a thousand bucks on occasion, the Ocean Club is a four-figure property, and I still think you should get something pretty good for those rates.
According to the Americans, their unarmed ship Impeccable, under naval supervision but with a civilian crew, was peacefully surveying the ocean floor in international waters about 120km (75 miles) south of China's Hainan Island (see map).
MultiChoice is available in just under 50 countries on the continent and adjacent Indian Ocean islands, and CNN continues to provide our subscribers with cutting-edge and incisive news from around the world.
Under the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea, mining rights on the ocean floor are controlled by a little-known body, the International Seabed Authority, which since 2001 has issued 13 licences - with another six in prospect.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
Reagan, who died Saturday at age 93 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, is to be buried Friday under a monument on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean, outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, family spokeswoman Joanne Drake told reporters.
But the WTO found that fishing techniques used in other parts of the ocean can also harm dolphins, and that excluding Mexican tuna from access to the label under especially strict terms was discriminatory.
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But five weeks after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank, it seems possible that the rate at which oil is going into the ocean, if not the rate at which it is coming out, might be coming under control.
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According to Real Estalker, the 4-floor ocean view home is still under construction and was designed with more than 14, 000-square feet of living space.
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