When the drill unit sank on Thursday, we immediately and intensely investigated by remotely operated vehicles the entire 5, 000 feet of pipe that's on the floor of the ocean.
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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.
Over the weekend, it was also reported that Japanese experts have found a large deposit of rare earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
The Knicks and the Nets aren't exactly antagonists it's often been an asymmetrical rivalry, with one club up as the other struggled, or both rattling around the ocean floor of the Eastern Conference.
They are also engaged in ongoing research into the amount of methane hydrate under this area of the ocean floor.
Present-day fishing trawlers in the North Sea occasionally dredge up the bones and tusks of the mastodons and other game from the ocean floor.
The earthquake occurred some 25 miles below the ocean floor and resulted in a tsunami warning for the coast of Miyagi prefecture.
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At these depths, everything must be done with remote-control robots that install the blowout preventers, submersible pumps and other devices to manage the flow of oil and water on the ocean floor.
That was beyond the reach of conventional drilling platforms, which stand on steel legs anchored to the ocean floor.
The company says surveys have revealed huge numbers of so-called nodules - small lumps of rock rich in valuable metals - lying on the ocean floor south of Hawaii and west of Mexico.
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Remaining traces are indistinguishable in a body of water as enormous as the Gulf of Mexico and no different than the trace amounts that naturally seep from the ocean floor.
That displacement of the ocean floor also displaces ocean water.
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The Thresher sank toward the ocean floor after losing power, until it imploded below crush depth into thousands of pieces.
BP, which had been leasing the rig from Transocean, says the safety device that was supposed to cut oil flow on the ocean floor in the event of a well blowout did not perform its function.
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These organisms, which have fundamentally different metabolisms to normal microbes, are found in hydrothermal vents on the deep-ocean floor and in rocks and springs hundreds of metres below the surface of the Earth.
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The fact that Mr Becker is but one of a handful of underwater treasure hunters now scanning the ocean floor for traces of the wreck, would have saddened her greatly, they say.
Drop your book bags on the marble floor, and then practice saying "muy bonita" when you see the view of the Pacific Ocean from your secluded balcony.
At the end of their lifetime -- usually only a few days -- they fall to the ocean floor carrying with them the CO2.
Given how little we know about how the ocean regulates the amount of CO2 in our air (we've mapped the surface of Mars, he points out, but not the ocean floor) he wonders if that's such a good idea.
These breakthroughs allow oil to be sucked economically from far beneath the ocean floor, and out of depleted and formerly abandoned wells.
"I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14, 000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor, " the billionaire investor and entrepreneur wrote.
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"Up to 700, 000 tcf of methane hydrates lie beneath the ocean floor and the Arctic, " Mulva said.
Every long stretch of fiber, especially if it lies on the ocean floor, needs these lasers by the thousands.
The volcanoes are strung across several thousand kilometres of ocean floor and are moving westward on the Pacific tectonic plate at up to 6cm per year.
In a Trincomalee town hall with views of the glittering Indian Ocean, more than 80 families sleep on a concrete floor amid battered cardboard boxes of possessions.
Things get murkier still when oil companies drill deep below the surface of the ocean floor, since even robots can't go down there to see what's going on.
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