Assembling this dataset has been a major undertaking by sea-going marine carbon scientists from across the world for the last four years.
It is being loaded onto a huge sea-going barge for a five-day, 600-mile journey to Rosyth, where the carrier sections will be assembled.
The ability to use a mobile, sea-going platform means that the regime and its friends need not seek long-range missiles to attack distant targets.
She described the sea-going trading ship, which is currently in storage in Portsmouth, as "enormously significant" and said it was important that it be exhibited.
Particularly worrisome are the severe cuts envisioned in the needed modernization of the submarine fleet - arguably the most valuable and certainly among the most flexible of sea-going platforms, given their important roles in sea control and intelligence operations.
Kubodera said scientific research, technology and the right lure all came together to make the encounter possible, and that this case will shed more light on deep-sea creatures going forward.
In this week's issue of Science Dr Watson and his colleagues use these data combined with data from elsewhere on sea-surface temperatures and the amount of mixing going on under the surface to produce figures for the total size of the North Atlantic carbon sink during 2005.
"If you extrapolate these results, Greenland is going to be a serious contributor to global sea-level rise" in coming years, said Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, England, who wasn't involved in the Science study.
And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- National Oceans Month, 2012
But despite the risks - having that sea view day-in, day-out is what Ms Neirop-Reading says will keep her going right until the very end.
At present, though satellites can provide a broad-brush picture of what is going on, collecting detailed information about the atmosphere above the sea is hard.
After more than a decade of going out to sea in search of the giant squid, he relished the moment he came face-to-face with it.
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