在爆炸发生后两日,钻井平台沉入海底,连接海床油井的输油管道破裂。
Two days after the explosion, the rig sank to the ocean floor, and a pipe connected to the well on the sea floor broke.
巴西新发现的石油宝藏仍静躺在大西洋海底七千公尺的海床上,但这些发现征兆就已经让巴西官员冲昏了头。
THEIR new-found hoard of oil still lies 7, 000 metres (23, 000 feet) beneath the Atlantic Ocean, but the signs are that it has already gone to Brazilian officialdom's head.
来自利兹大学的科学家第一次利用机器人潜水艇去研究在海床下发现的深槽水道,结果他们发现了一条高含盐水河流流淌在这条黑海海底的深槽水道中,并制造出和陆地上的河流非常相似的河岸和漫滩。
The scientists, based at the University of Leeds, used a robotic submarine to study for the first time a deep channel that had been found on the sea bed.
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