But even then almost two thirds of the crude will remain beneath the waves.

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While the beautiful scenery is encouragement enough to take a boat trip, the real draw is beneath the waves.

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He also played the priest who goes down with the ship in "Titanic" (1997), praying with terrified passengers as the vessel slips beneath the waves.

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And with scierntists predicting an average sea level rise of between 38 and 55cm by 2100, some small island states could disappear beneath the waves.

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But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves.

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As you would expect with a natural history site, there are tons of gorgeous wildlife images and video from across the globe, including shots of animals on land and beneath the waves.

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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A fossil skeleton found in central Nevada's desert years ago has been identified as belonging to a 30-foot-long sea monster that ruled beneath the waves 244 million years ago.

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This weekend, in addition to being the groundbreaking time when a national institution auctions off oversized goldfish, is also the time that we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Trieste descending to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth 7 miles beneath the shiny waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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Astroseismology is performed when scientists examine the sound waves generated beneath the surface of the star to determine its size.

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