| 单词 | sea floor |
| 例句 | The drench seemed to come off the sea floor itself, where blind white fish ferried themselves by their own light through the great polar cold. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Beyond this, the sea floor stretched into gloom. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue ghosts, like blue smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After a tense half-minute Moriarity kicked off the sea floor, swam to the boat to grab a replacement for his broken surfboard and paddled back out. Gerard Butler in the Surfing Movie ‘Chasing Mavericks’ 2012-10-20T23:07:19Z Yet the discovery of Columbus’ encampment on nearby Haiti and data from the explorer’s diary prove the heavily decayed vessel on the sea floor was the Santa Maria, he now believes. Shipwreck off Haiti could be Columbus’Santa Maria, explorers say 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Use snorkelling gear from the only place on the tiny island and within minutes you’ll get a glimpse of turtles gliding along the sea floor, munching sea grass. Secret beaches around the world: readers’ tips 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z When measured from its base on the sea floor, it is more than 33,000 feet high, nearly a mile taller than Mount Everest. In Hawaii, Surf, Sun and Snow 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In the dunes, you’re walking on what had been sea floor, and the world here feels beautiful and new. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z At one point, a boat they were filming on sank, sending two cameras down to the sea floor. The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Chanel transformed the Grand Palais today into an all-white sea floor, with pebbles, giant stingray, coral reefs, and the singer Florence Welch emerging from a clamshell to sing us a song. On the Runway Blog: At Chanel, Everything But a Mermaid 2011-10-04T16:49:14Z “Part of creating an underwater museum is about changing our value systems – thinking about the sea floor as something sacred, something that we should be protecting and not taking for granted.” Museum of underwater art to open on Australia's Great Barrier Reef 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The explorers will use underwater motorcycles that glide above the sea floor like hovercraft to get around efficiently while collecting data and "taking a pulse to the health of our oceans," Cousteau said. Cousteau grandson pays tribute by trying to beat undersea record 2013-06-30T14:05:17Z I mean see the zombies on the sea floor. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 6: Hey Look, Another New Group! 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z You look down at the sea floor, hearing only the hollow suck and sigh of your own breath through the snorkel, seeing the broken shells, the rusting beer cans, the polished pieces of broken glass. Jon McGregor We Wave And Call 2011-07-22T22:00:49Z Sinking deeper toward the sea floor, I spotted the torpedo holes cut into her hull for the filming of “Never Say Never Again.” In the Bahamas, Scuba Diving With James Bond’s Trainer 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Russia used the vessel in 2007 to plant a Russian flag on the sea floor near the North Pole. Director Cameron dives beneath Lake Baikal 2010-08-16T11:14:00Z Walk across the sea floor to reach the main part of the facility. "His Dark Materials," thriller "The Flight Attendant" and Maisie Williams hit HBO Max in November 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z They were drawn by the booming business in which divers descend to the sea floor to find the best sponges. Florida craftsman's diving helmets are jewels of the sea 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Was all of Staten Island scraped up from the sea floor? When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The other pair grabbed the severed section before it sank to the sea floor. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Those loud sounds include explosions from dynamiting the sea floor, for example, which is a common fishing practice in some places. Ocean bird’s super hearing helps it catch dinner 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Models for Donatella Versace’s latest co-ed collection walked through the ruins of a fallen, submerged civilization — its own Medusa logo having fallen to the sea floor amid crumbling ionic columns. Milan Fashion: Marni avenges lockdown with global video 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z “He’s involved in some level of destruction of the sea floor. But as time goes on, he becomes a totally different person, this extremely important voice in terms of conservation.” Liz Garbus Is Taking Back the Voices Stolen by the Golden State Killer 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z How do some things float and others lethally — loudly — hurtle to the sea floor? ‘Aquaman’ Review: Our Hero Swims. His Movie Sinks. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z One of them took a picture of the ingots as they laid on the sea floor, a photo that would prove crucial during the investigation. Gold Ingots From 18th-Century Shipwreck Returned to France 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Or take new efforts to mine the sea floor for valuable minerals, or to stir sediment and fertilize oceanic food chains. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The storm has heaved sand up from the sea floor, dashed it against the reef and scoured away harmful algae, enhancing the environment for the diverse sea life surrounding us. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Yet the discovery of Columbus’ encampment on nearby Haiti and data from the explorer’s diary appear to prove the heavily decayed vessel on the sea floor was the Santa Maria. Shipwreck off Haiti could be Columbus’s Santa Maria, explorers say 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Suddenly Nina grabbed my arm and pointed toward the sea floor. Explorer: An Aimless Sailing Trip Off Palawan in the Philippines 2012-03-09T23:12:36Z He said the Gulf Coast oil spill is "a disgrace" and those responsible must know how to cap a gusher if they're allowed to drill at the sea floor in the future. US library honors Paul McCartney for pop music 2010-06-02T01:31:00Z At some point of ideal depth known only to Pilgrim, he throttled down, threw a net over the back of the boat and dragged it over the sea floor. T Magazine: Fly Zone 2011-03-21T14:00:14Z Hundreds of garden eels rose like reeds from the sea floor, snapping backward into their burrows as I passed. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The recovered bones and teeth of Lorrainosaurus represent remnants of what was once a complete skeleton that decomposed and was dispersed across the ancient sea floor by currents and scavengers. Ancient sea monster remains reveal oldest mega-predatory pliosaur 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Volunteers toss big steel hooks baited with bloody chunks of bonito fish overboard, and heavy concrete anchors pull the bait to the sea floor, where it will hopefully attract some of the region’s largest sharks. Drag Queens Tag Sharks in Annual Florida Science Celebration 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The horseshoe crab moves around on the sea floor, looking for food. 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Coast Guard officials said on Tuesday that the additional parts of the craft were recovered from the sea floor last week and taken to a US port. Remaining debris from destroyed Titan sub found on Atlantic seabed 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The final meal of this animal—a trilobite—still sat in its guts as sediment buried its body in the sea floor of an ancient Paleozoic sea. Scientists reveal half-billion-year-old ‘last supper’ 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Trackers placed on some Weddell Seals show that they dive all the way to the sea floor. Huge Area of Icefish Nests Found In Antarctica 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The robots were looking for anything sticking up above the sea floor. Polar Explorer’s Ship Found After Over 100 Years 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z As its roots spread out under the sea floor, new plants shoot up from those roots. World’s Largest Plant is a 4,500-Year-Old Sea Grass 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The scientists were left with hours of videos taken as the sharks traveled for miles over the sea floor. Sharks Help Discover World’s Largest Sea Grass Meadow 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The scientists were exploring the sea floor around the islands as part of the Galapagos Deep 2023 project. Lively Coral Reef Discovered Deep in Galapagos Waters 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Before they left, the team placed a camera on the sea floor. Huge Area of Icefish Nests Found In Antarctica 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z In shallower areas, the elephant seals sometimes woke up on the sea floor. Elephant Seals: A Short Sleep in the Deep 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Scientists believe that studying how the Titanic is breaking down could help them learn more about thousands of other shipwrecks also lying on the sea floor. Creating a 3D Model of the Titanic 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The microbes were found in samples pulled from deep under the sea floor beneath miles of ocean. Worms Frozen for 46,000 Years Are Alive 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The project uses a special submarine called Alvin to make maps and take images and videos of the sea floor. Lively Coral Reef Discovered Deep in Galapagos Waters 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It could be several years before the project makes it to the sea floor. Are seafloor desalination pods the answer to California's drought woes? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The sea floor, once a mosaic of colorful corals, is now marred by patchy white splotches. Cuban scientists hunt for clues to save coral reefs as ocean temperatures soar 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The animals operate as a vacuum on the sea floor, breaking down particles that become part of the ocean’s nutrient cycle, said Gordon Hendler, Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles curator of echinoderms. Traffickers plead guilty to smuggling over $10,000 in endangered sea cucumbers 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Loeb’s team collected too few control samples from elsewhere on the sea floor to be sure their finds were unusual, Desch says. Did interstellar debris fall to the sea floor? Claim meets sea of doubt 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z A shallower, more gradual sea floor will allow storm surge to move in and out easily given the right circumstances such as a major hurricane. Will the supermoon make Hurricane Idalia worse? We asked the experts. 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z “The solution never has time to settle on the sea floor — it goes into the current,” Simon said. Are seafloor desalination pods the answer to California's drought woes? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The octopus — about the size of a grapefruit — perched over their eggs laid on rocks heated by water seeping up from the sea floor. Deep-sea ‘hot tubs’ help octopus moms hatch their eggs faster 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z The frigid sea floor is no friend to octopus babies. ‘Octopus Garden’ helps tentacled babies grow fast in warm volcanic waters 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Over 2 weeks, Loeb and colleagues dragged a sled covered with neodymium magnets along the sea floor, 2 kilometers down, hoping the magnets would pick up metallic meteor fragments. Did interstellar debris fall to the sea floor? Claim meets sea of doubt 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z As the sun rose, the tide retreated until it revealed six miles of the muddy sea floor. South Korea is a test case on how to fight an ecological disaster 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z “The concept of putting it down at the bottom of the sea floor, deep enough where that hydrostatic pressure can drive the reverse-osmosis process — there’s certainly merit to that,” Donovan said. Are seafloor desalination pods the answer to California's drought woes? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Many factors, such as depth, speed and sonar capability, influence how much sea floor can be mapped. Off Alaska coast, research crew peers down, down, down to map deep and remote ocean 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Where most rigs have vertical, cylindrical pilings, Eureka has layer-upon-layer of flat skirt pilings, which replicate the sea floor at various depths throughout the entire water column. An oil rig that environmentalists love? Here’s the real story. 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z A jellyfish begins its life cycle as an anemone-like creature on the sea floor before undergoing a metamorphosis and sprouting into a recognizable medusa — that Pacman ghost shape we're all familiar with. Researchers announce Pacman ghost-shaped jellyfish is the oldest in fossil record 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Little is known about the deep sea floor, and what evidence does exist suggests excavating it could damage sensitive marine life. We barely know anything about the bottom of the ocean. Nations are racing to mine it anyway 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z They did not say whether experts will now try and recover it, or its precious cargo, from the sea floor. Ancient 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck found off coast of Italy 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Kevin Mills became paralysed on holiday when a rogue wave threw him to the sea floor. Quadriplegic man cycles across Canada 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The Titan implosion on the sea floor off Newfoundland last week has many of us considering that question. Should you chase the thrill? After Titan, adventurers weigh the risks of extreme travel 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z He also looked to collaborate with other industries such as oil and gas, mapping the sea floor for dig sites, as well as inspection of bridges or ship hulls. OceanGate co-founder responds to James Cameron's criticism of the Titan submersible 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Another study that reviewed the effect of a disturbance to the sea floor in 1989 found the ecosystem still hadn't returned to equilibrium nearly 30 years after the fact. We barely know anything about the bottom of the ocean. Nations are racing to mine it anyway 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Once the vehicle reached the sea floor, the two could do little more than check for leaks and do their best to conserve oxygen. Past deep sea rescues show the challenges of saving those on board 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z A Canadian ROV — an unmanned machine used to explore ocean depths — reached the sea floor and began its search for the missing vessel Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Debris field found near Titanic during search for missing sub-vessel 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor,” Rear Adm. Your Friday Briefing 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor,” he said. Deep in the Atlantic, a ‘Catastrophic Implosion’ and Five Lives Lost 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Little is known about the deep sea floor, and what evidence does exist suggests excavating it could damage sensitive marine life. We barely know anything about the bottom of the ocean. Nations are racing to mine it anyway 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Coast Guard said an undersea robot sent by a Canadian ship had reached the sea floor, while a French research institute said a deep-diving robot with cameras, lights and arms also joined the operation. U.S. Coast Guard says debris field has been found near the Titanic during search for submersible 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z This is a technique taught to military submarine crew when grounding on the sea floor. What Safety Features Should Subs like the Titan Be Equipped With? 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z More rescue vessels are poised to join efforts to find the Titan, including a robot capable of reaching the sea floor. Lina Khan Raises the Heat on Amazon 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Still, the countdown to oxygen depletion posed only a hypothetical deadline, assuming the missing vessel was even still intact, rather than trapped or damaged in punishing depths at or near the sea floor. Search intensifies for Titanic sub with only hours of oxygen left 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z A remotely operated vehicle that can scan the sea floor, known as an ROV, was flown to Canada on Tuesday and is expected to arrive at the Titanic site on Thursday morning. Specialized underwater ROV being flown in to aid in search for missing sub 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Evidence from the Hikurangi subduction zone in New Zealand now suggests these “slow slip” events often depend on seamounts, the underwater volcanoes that stud the sea floor in large numbers. Undersea mountains help lubricate ‘slow slip’ earthquakes 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z If the Titan were stuck on the ocean floor, a rescue effort would face even greater challenges due to extreme hydrostatic pressure and total darkness on the sea floor more than 2 miles deep. Searchers detect undersea sounds in hunt for missing Titanic sub 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The mystique has endured long after the vessel, for decades the holy grail of undiscovered shipwrecks, was found on the sea floor in 1985. The doomed ocean liner Titanic continues to intrigue the public after more than a century. 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Greek government officials said the ship likely sank more than two miles to the sea floor, making retrieval all but impossible, and the ship’s hold a tomb. Hundreds Dead, 9 Arrested, and Many Questions in Migrant Wreck 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Russia is rapidly building up its military and partnering on commercial ventures with China, as thawing ice provides access to vast natural resources below the Arctic sea floor and unlocks new shipping lanes. Raw Meat and Moon Signs: Inuit Lessons for Soldiers in the Arctic 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z The Langseth crisscrossed the region, towing long strings of hydrophones to catch reflections from nearly 150,000 airgun blasts, which penetrate the water and bounce off layers of sediment and rock under the sea floor. Undersea mountains help lubricate ‘slow slip’ earthquakes 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The seawater is then returned to the ocean and can pull more carbon dioxide out of the air, while the solid mineral, which contains calcium carbonate, can then settle to the sea floor. Boeing signs alternative fuel deal with Los Angeles startup to cut carbon footprint 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The mystique endured even after the wreck of the Titanic was found on the sea floor in 1985. The doomed ocean liner Titanic continues to intrigue the public after more than a century. 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z The plumes seen by Cassini contained silica particles that were probably carried up from the sea floor by churning fluids. JWST Spots Biggest Water Plume Yet Spewing from a Moon of Saturn 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The excess diatoms die and sink to the sea floor where they are not easily reached by saprobes that feed on dead organisms. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Japanese scientists covered the sea floor with 97 ocean-bottom seismometers. Undersea mountains help lubricate ‘slow slip’ earthquakes 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Most species are marine and live on the sea floor, with nearly a worldwide distribution. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z This part of the ship collapsed as it corkscrewed into the sea floor. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “A culture that has a permanent body of water has mermaid stories,” is the saying posted at this fascinating museum, which teaches ecology from seashore to sea floor using mermaid mythology. These 5 kid-friendly PNW destinations make learning fun 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Several sponges, which form irregular, bumpy blobs on the sea floor. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead the greenhouse gas is converted into a solid that includes materials inherent to oceans, and can be released to settle on the sea floor, Sant said. California researchers attempt ocean climate solution 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist. “It's just mind boggling.” More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Studying the stern, he added, could reveal the mechanics of how the ship struck the sea floor. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The "overturning circulation" of the oceans, driven by the movement of denser water towards the sea floor, helps deliver heat, carbon, oxygen and vital nutrients around the globe. Rising Antarctic ice melt will dramatically slow global ocean flows, study finds 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Part b shows an anemone sitting on the sea floor with thick tentacles, radiating up from a cup-shaped body. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the explosions along the pipelines in September, there has been rampant speculation about what transpired on the sea floor near the Danish island of Bornholm. Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The ship sat largely intact on the sea floor, looking “as if someone had laid her out gently on the silt and said, ‘Wait here now, wait until somebody finds you.’” Review | An Antarctic explorer watched his ship sink. A century later, it was found. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Nations generally control the waters and sea floor that extend 200 nautical miles from their shores. Nations Agree on Language for Historic Treaty to Protect Ocean Life 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Amplify’s lawsuit, filed last year, accused the shipping companies of improperly allowing their container ships, the MSC Danit and Cosco Beijing, to drag their anchors across the sea floor near the pipeline. Shipping firms to pay pipeline company nearly $100 million in O.C. oil spill 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The illustration shows a sea bed abundant with odd organisms, including tube-shaped worms anchored to the sea floor and animals that resemble cockroaches crawling along it. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Intelligence and law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have had difficulty obtaining concrete evidence about what happened on the sea floor in the hours, days and weeks before the explosions. Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The flow of digital information through fiber-optic cables lining the sea floor could be compromised by climate change. Global Internet Connectivity Is at Risk from Climate Disasters 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z There, hydrothermal vents—openings in the sea floor where heat from deeper within can escape—could supply sufficient energy and nutrients to sustain life. At Jupiter, JUICE and Clipper Will Work Together in Hunt for Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z And resources increase as well, as governments and companies put more effort into mapping and exploring minerals in the earth’s crust and on the sea floor. Minerals are crucial for electric cars and wind turbines. Some worry whether we have enough. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Dordellas Finance Corp. and their subsidiaries have been accused of allowing their ships to drag their anchors across the sea floor during a storm in January 2021, about nine months before the oil spill. Shipping companies agree to pay $45 million in O.C. oil spill lawsuits 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Like the Na’vi teenagers we see exploring their new oceanic home, I could have spent hours swimming around that sea floor, watching in slack-jawed bliss as endless varieties of alien fish swam past. All the 2023 best picture Oscar nominees ranked, from worst to best 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The standoff has been fuelled by studies that highlighted the risk of boats used to monitor carbon leaks colliding with wind turbines fixed to the sea floor. Two energy giants, two green projects: one double-booking in North Sea 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z In conducting CPT sampling, a drill on top of the vessel presses a metal rod into the sea floor to test the friction and resistance of the soil, Urbish said. Groups: ‘No evidence’ offshore wind killing whales in NJ-NY 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Oil and natural gas can enter the ocean naturally through fractures in the sea floor, known as seeps, that are common in Santa Barbara’s waters. Authorities working to determine source of oil slick off Santa Barbara coast 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Similarly to shallow-water corals that build colorful reefs full of fish, black corals act as important habitats where fish and invertebrates feed and hide from predators in what is otherwise a mostly barren sea floor. Scientists discover five new species of black corals near the Great Barrier Reef 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Melvin promised jars of that valuable sea floor to the dignitaries at the event. South Carolina celebrates deepening of Charleston’s port 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Mauna Loa makes up about 51 percent of the Big Island and rises 13,679 feet above sea level and about 30,000 feet from the sea floor, according to the National Park Service. Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano erupts for first time in 38 years 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z China has dredged the sea floor to build harbours and airstrips on the Spratlys, parts of which are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. APEC summit host Thailand urges leaders to put aside differences 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The 1½- to 2-mile sheen was spotted Friday about five nautical miles from Summerland Beach, an area with a petroleum-rich sea floor that is home to numerous abandoned gas and oil wells. Authorities working to determine source of oil slick off Santa Barbara coast 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z In recent years, China has dredged the sea floor to construct harbors and airstrips on the Spratly Islands, which are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. Kamala Harris to visit South China Sea island, move tempts inflamed tensions with Beijing 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z China has dredged the sea floor to build harbors and airstrips on the Spratlys, parts of which are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. Exclusive: Kamala Harris to visit Philippine island at edge of South China Sea dispute 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The team was forced to make assumptions about the bathymetry, or shape and slope of the sea floor, as well as the ocean’s depth and the structure of the asteroid crater. Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs triggered ‘megatsunami,’ with mile-high waves 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The Doheny plant, for example, will draw seawater through slanted intake wells that run beneath the sea floor. They used to call California ocean desalination a disaster. But water crisis brings new look 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z After the landmasses began to sink, the ice sheet that had once extended offshore to the west and into the North Sea no longer rested on the sea floor, but instead began to float. Watch an ice sheet melt—and Great Britain and Ireland emerge 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Crews using remotely operated vessels and cranes recovered the majority of the plane’s wreckage from the sea floor more than 150 feet below the surface in late September. Whidbey seaplane crash investigators identify possible cause 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z These are built up from the sea floor on concrete foundations and can only be deployed in relatively shallow water, up to about 60m. Can floating turbines harvest the world's wind? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Prof Smetacek envisages floating harvesters will bale the crop up and then send it down to the inert depths of the sea floor, where there is so little oxygen the bales will not rot. Climate change: Can an enormous seaweed farm help curb it? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z These include bottom trawl nets, which collect species such as scallops and flounder from the sea floor, and the long lines of hooks used to catch cod, tuna, and other large fish. ‘Astounding’ amount of fishing gear lost in ocean each year 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The pools cover salt flats that took shape centuries ago, and the pinker the water, the higher the density of salt coating the sea floor. When the seawater turns pink, poor Venezuelans rush to cash in 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z They were subject to numerous stress tests and certification before being laid on the sea floor. Pipeline Breaks Look Deliberate, Europeans Say, Exposing Vulnerability 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Navy crews will use a crane on the barge and the ROV to pull any evidence of the crash from the sea floor, where it landed after a “near-vertical” nose dive, according to the NTSB. Navy, NTSB prepare to recover plane wreckage in Mutiny Bay 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Because of the shape of the sea floor in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, even low-end hurricanes can bring a dangerous storm surge. Ian strengthens on perilous path toward Florida 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z In some places, for example, volunteer divers help remove lost trawl nets from the sea floor. ‘Astounding’ amount of fishing gear lost in ocean each year 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z When fishing boats drag heavy nets along the sea floor to catch bottom dwellers, such as rose shrimp, they also kill other species and cloud the water with sediment. News at a glance: Bringing kids along to field sites, restricting EU trawling, and calling the pandemic ‘over’ 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The true death toll is likely to be much higher as whale carcasses often sink to the sea floor. New System Aims to Save Whales Near San Francisco From Ship Collisions 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Because they rise from the deep sea floor, they are technically among the highest on earth. An active adventure across the Azores’ volcanic islands 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Months before the spill, high winds caused two ships to drag their anchors across the sea floor, bending and moving the pipeline and eventually causing its cement casing to crack, the state said. Amplify Energy to pay $5 mln to settle criminal charges over California oil spill 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z For example, restricting boats from areas where lobster traps are present can reduce the chance that a propeller will cut the lines that allow the traps to be retrieved from the sea floor. ‘Astounding’ amount of fishing gear lost in ocean each year 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z They detected a B-52 wreck and what looked like human remains on the sea floor, and the team’s divers and archaeologists brought them up. Can floating DNA help recover troops lost long ago at sea? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z To watch the spectacle, sea firefly researchers in scuba gear position themselves on the sea floor just after dark, using red lights to find their way. How the sea fireflies of the Caribbean are shining new light on evolution 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z On Earth, when chemically reducing vent fluids meet oxygen-containing seawater, the energy that becomes available often supports thriving communities of microorganisms and animals on the sea floor, far from the light of the Sun. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Similar openings on the sea floor were first spotted 18 years ago along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. I’ll Trade You Some Cursed Baby Dolls and Metal Frogs for That Unwanted Banana Statue 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Martin contends that the fact that wind turbines will be floating, rather than fixed to the sea floor, will reduce the long-term effects. Where Dalí once painted the sea, wind turbines are set to rise 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Martin contends that the fact that wind turbines will be floating, rather than fixed to the sea floor, will reduce the long-term effects. Where Dalí Once Painted the Sea, Wind Turbines Are Set to Rise 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The oldest parts of the sea floor are older than 200 Ma, but most of the sea floor is younger than 100 Ma. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The race is on to figure out how to protect the ocean abyss as deep-sea mining operations look to extract minerals like nickel, cobalt, and copper from the sea floor. Mining the deep sea for battery materials will be dangerously noisy, study finds 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z A study of fossils in south China found that marine species able to burrow into the sea floor were among the first to recover after the long silence of the End-Permian Extinction. Rampant wildfires once led to global mass extinction, scientist say. Can it happen again? 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Mudrocks on the sea floor also contain carbon that originated in living things, and magma from submarine eruptions could have heated the rocks and liberated the carbon. Hidden carbon layer may have sparked ancient bout of global warming 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The researchers hope to find a “treasure trove of royal items” and packing chests in the stern, where James would have been on the ship and which is lodged in the sea floor. Royal Shipwreck From 1682 Is Found Off the Coast of England 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Terrigenous clays are distributed across the sea floor, but in areas where either carbonate- or silica-forming organisms thrive, the sediments are likely to be dominated by carbonate or silica oozes. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Since 2000, scientists have worked to map the canyon’s sea floor, document the species that live within its steep slopes and investigate the seeps that release methane gas from the seafloor. Biden proposes making underwater canyon off New York a marine sanctuary 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z "Our rivers are in a poor state, bird and other species numbers are in serious decline, poor air quality threatens the health of many, and our seas and sea floor are not managed sustainably." Nature loss: Watchdog highlights 'precarious state' of environment 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z And Greenlandic geophysics students got to sail on cruises that mapped harbor sea floors. Pandemic delays to afflict polar science until late this decade 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The air guns then fire compressed air that creates sound pulses that reverberate off the sea floor and provide subsurface images. In shift, South Africans prevail over Big Oil in drilling project 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z In areas where marine productivity is high, dead organic matter is delivered to the sea floor fast enough that some of it escapes oxidation. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Species that can’t easily move in search of new habitats, such as fish that depend on specific coastal wetlands or geologic formations on the sea floor, will be more likely die out. Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z And the new picture could force oceanographers to rethink the behavior of past oceans, when the contours of the sea floor differed from today’s. Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to Earth's climate 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z "When you build a gas pipeline across the sea floor, it's like building a railway line across the country," he said. South Korea sued to stop deep-sea gas pipeline 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Salas explained that when the ancient basilosaurus died, its skull likely sunk to the bottom of the sea floor, where it was quickly buried and preserved. In Peru, skull of 'marine monster' points to fearsome ancient predator 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Most of this escapes back to the surface, but some is trapped in methane hydrates near the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The main quake, which was estimated to have been centered about 37 miles below the sea floor, was preceded by a lesser-magnitude 6.4 earthquake two minutes earlier. World Digest: March 16, 2022 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Close to the sea floor, they proposed, the breaking waves could no longer propel water downward. Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to Earth's climate 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The young, once hatched, sink to the sea floor and grasp onto something with their fully developed suction cups. The Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker Is Armed to the Teeth 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The embryos of ghost sharks develop in egg capsules laid on the sea floor, and they feed off a yolk until they are ready to hatch. New Zealand: Scientists discover rare baby ghost shark 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Mauna Loa rises from the surrounding flat sea floor, and its diameter is in the order of 200 km. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z By dangling a camera deep beneath the ice, researchers were able to photograph the collections of sponges that form a garden on the sea floor. 'Alien-like' life thrives on dead matter in Arctic deep 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z But oceanographers had made few measurements near the sea floor to test the idea. Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to Earth's climate 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In many parts of the deepest ocean, life congregates around seeps—vents in the sea floor where gasses leak out from Earth’s innards and fuel microbial growth, attracting communities of deep-sea invertebrates. These sponges survive the deep sea by feeding on remains of long-dead animals 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z “What we’re looking at is a lot more movement of icebergs that could actually gouge these areas of the sea floor,” Tarling said. An extraordinary iceberg is gone, but not forgotten 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Most shield volcanoes are associated with mantle plumes, although some form at divergent boundaries, either on land or on the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The sudden displacement of the sea floor in an earthquake, for example, drives most tsunamis. Tonga shock wave created tsunamis in two different oceans 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The findings also mean the currents of past oceans could have been fundamentally different depending on Earth’s volcanic activity—and how bumpy it made the sea floor. Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to Earth's climate 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The team left behind two cameras to photograph the sea floor four times per day over the next two years. Researchers find icefish colony the size of Malta in Antarctic waters 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The cause is believed to be a land slippage or shift in the sea floor, Mr. Sloots said in an email. With a Repair Ship Many Days Away, Tonga Faces Weeks of Digital Darkness 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Some LIP eruptions occur on the sea floor, the largest being the one that created the Ontong Java plateau in the western Pacific Ocean at around 122 Ma. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mapping the sea floor, we discovered a hidden “caldera” 150m below the waves. Why the Tonga Eruption Was So Violent, and What to Expect Next 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z “You also need to know the structure of the sea floor.” Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to Earth's climate 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The icefish and their eggs dominate the area’s biomass, which the authors describe as “exceptionally high” for the Antarctic sea floor. News at a glance: Warmest oceans yet, a pig-to-human heart transplant, and the world’s largest breeding colony of fish 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z While towing video cameras and other instruments half a kilometer down, near the sea floor, the ship came upon thousands of 75-centimeter-wide nests, each occupied by a single adult icefish—and up to 2100 eggs. World’s largest fish breeding grounds found under the Antarctic ice 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In terms of area, there is very likely more pillow basalt on the sea floor than any other type of rock on Earth. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Researchers believed the sea floor there was likely to hold a detailed fossil record because of the high rate of sediment settling in the ocean and the abundant fish. Climate change threatens one of world’s biggest fish harvests 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The ship-bound scientists will be measuring water temperature, the sea floor and ice thickness. Scientists explore Thwaites, Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The FAI ruling said the accident was caused by the vessel's trawl gear becoming embedded in the sea floor. Nancy Glen: 'Unstable' trawler led to Loch Fyne fishermen deaths 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z To head off environmental concerns, King plans to confine the work within a giant plastic bag running from the surface to the sea floor several kilometers below. To draw down carbon and cool off the planet, ocean fertilization gets another look 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The coloured shapes represent parts of the sea floor that have normal magnetism, and the magnetic time scale is shown using the same colours. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And what about the more than 100 containers that fell overboard earlier, most of which must have settled to the sea floor? Cargo-ship fiasco underscores growing risk in Salish Sea 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Federal officials explained that a ship’s anchor dragging across the sea floor could have scraped the pipeline. Orange County oil spill: A week later, the water remains off-limits for surfers, swimmers, fishermen 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Because the line is encased in concrete - a means of keeping it weighted down on the sea floor — the Coast Guard videos don’t reveal the condition of the half-inch-thick steel pipe underneath. Mystery lingers around cause of California oil pipeline leak 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Because the line is encased in concrete — a means of keeping it weighted down on the sea floor — the Coast Guard videos don’t reveal the condition of the half-inch-thick steel pipe underneath. Mystery lingers around cause of California oil pipeline leak 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z How did we learn about the topography of the sea floor in the early part of the 20th century? Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He said it appeared that the leak was in a separate transport pipeline that runs along the sea floor. California Oil Spill Closes Beaches and Renews Call for Drilling Ban 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Divers are completing an intricate inspection of the pipelines on the sea floor, about 80 to 100 feet below the ocean’s surface. Where is the Orange County oil spill moving, and which beaches are threatened? 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The company won’t know until divers have a chance to complete an intricate inspection of the pipelines on the sea floor, about 80 to 100 feet below the ocean’s surface. Has the oil leak been stopped? What we know about origin of massive Orange County spill 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z It and other vessels are largely intact on the sea floor. Shipwrecks of World War I are a seabed museum in Turkey 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Why is there less sediment in the ocean ridge areas than in other parts of the sea floor? Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some fish species have been attracted to formations of boulders that help anchor turbines to the sea floor. New Digital Tool Tracks Impacts of Offshore Wind on Marine Life 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet it is enduringly sturdy, able to stay rooted in the sea floor and weather currents without snapping or splintering. A Swirling Vortex Is No Match for This Deep-Sea Sponge 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The world’s sea floors, and much of Iceland, take shape from basaltic magma—much the same stuff that exists in the mantle. Forget oil or water. In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano's magma 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Another is the shape of the sea floor. Hurricane Ida: How Climate Change Is Influencing Storms 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Wave erosion is greatest in the surf zone, where the wave base is impinging strongly on the sea floor and where the waves are breaking. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The depth of the sea floor is one factor. Tropical Storm Henri Could Bring Dangerous Storm Surge 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Both methods involve dragging fishing gear along the sea floor, which conservationists argue then releases carbon into the sea and ultimately the atmosphere. Scotland's fishing fleet urged to take steps to go green 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z He testified last week that the Seacor Power overturned during a last-ditch attempt to lower its massive legs to the sea floor. Coast Guard: Seacor Power never received weather warnings 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Liftboats have three or four legs that can extend to the sea floor and lift the boat above the water and then retract when the ship needs to move. Survivor of capsized lift boat details escape during hearing 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z We examined the topography of the sea floor from the perspective of plate tectonics in Chapter 10, but here we are going to take another look at the important features from an oceanographic perspective. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z That would make them about 350 million years older than the previous oldest known animal fossil—a flat, saucer-shaped creature known as Dickinsonia that lived on the sea floor almost 600 million years ago. Do these fossilized structures belong to Earth’s first animals? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Much is unknown about life on the deep sea floor, and vacuuming swaths of it clean threatens to have unintended and far-reaching consequences. California's electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Samples from the sea floor provide no directional information because wind and ocean currents move the dust as it settles. Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Duthu told the Coast Guard panel that his boat had just lowered his ship’s legs to the sea floor and raised his ship when the skies got dark. Survivor of capsized lift boat details escape during hearing 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Figure 18.2 The topography of the Atlantic Ocean sea floor between 0° and 50° north. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z During a dive this year, Mr. Sari said he found 30 sea cucumbers trying to climb off the sea floor, with one clinging to a seashell in an apparent attempt to rise above the sludge. The Sea of Marmara, a ‘Sapphire’ of Turkey, Is Choking From Pollution 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Some of it floats in giant garbage patches, whereas other bits drop to the sea floor, even turning up in the hindguts of crustaceans in deep ocean trenches. Research on ocean plastic surging, U.N. report finds 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Saildrone is also working with their larger models, the 72-foot Surveyor, to map bathymetry, or the slope and topography of the sea floor. Scientists hope to steer robotic surfboards into hurricanes 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “This was backed up by field work on the sea floor, which no presence of coral reef structures.” Opposition grows to 4th cruise ship dock in Mexico’s Cozumel 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Figure 18.3 The generalized topography of the Pacific Ocean sea floor between Japan and British Columbia. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Spinrad continues the long-standing tradition of scientists selected to run the agency, which has responsibilities stretching from the sea floor to low Earth orbit. Biden taps ocean scientist Rick Spinrad to run NOAA 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z He spotted something glittering on the sea floor and swam down to investigate … Ocean floor to original owner: A ring’s 20-year journey 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z “Mapping the sea floor is very important for storm surge,” Jenkins said. Scientists hope to steer robotic surfboards into hurricanes 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z It was unclear if the object was suspended or on the sea floor. Desperate hunt for missing Indonesian submarine as oxygen set to run out 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z For example, there are fragments of sea floor in British Columbia that date back to around 380 and 220 Ma, and there are similar rocks in the Canadian Shield that are older than 3 Ga. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Bathymetry describes the shape, depth and topographic features of the sea floor. How high-tech robotic surfboards could change our understanding of the Gulf Stream 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Such vessels have three legs that can be lowered to the sea floor to raise the ship off the water to serve as a temporary offshore platform. National Digest: Coast Guard halts search for missing members of La. boat crew 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z It has three legs it can lower to the sea floor to lift it out of the water as a temporary platform. Search for 9 missing from capsized boat in Gulf on 6th day 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z The boat has three legs designed to extend to the sea floor and raise the ship so it can serve as a platform for nearby rigs. Divers back in Gulf; search resumes for capsized boat’s crew 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Except within a few kilometres of a ridge crest, where the volcanic rock is still relatively young, most parts of the sea floor are covered in sediments. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After the animal died, conditions on the sea floor were just right to preserve its soft tissue and long, winglike fins. This ancient shark fossil is exquisite. But some researchers wonder if they’ll be able to study it 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The bulky vessel, also called a jackup rig, has three long legs designed to reach the sea floor and lift it out of water as an offshore platform. Divers aim to reach capsized ship in search for survivors 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The Seacor Power is designed to become an offshore platform by dropping three towering legs down to the sea floor. Louisiana Coast Guard search: 1 found dead, 12 remain missing after vessel capsizes, officials say 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z By overfishing and mining and drilling the sea floor, humanity is risking not just the ocean’s health but our own. How protecting the ocean can save species and stop climate change 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Methane released by the bacteria slowly bubbles upward through the sediment toward the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of that, they added data on sea floor carbon and maps from Global Fishing Watch on where trawling took place. Looking for Climate Solutions? Protect More Ocean, Researchers Find. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Radioactive elements such as cesium and strontium are many times more dangerous to human health than tritium and are many times more likely to accumulate inside fish and on the sea floor, he said. A decade after Fukushima nuclear disaster, contaminated water symbolizes Japan’s struggles 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Geraint Tarling, an ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, said the iceberg will “cause devastation to the sea floor by scouring the seabed communities of sponges, brittle stars, worms and sea-urchins, so decreasing biodiversity.” Research trip to study impact of giant floating iceberg 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z They also built the first global map of carbon stored in the sea floor, discovering that marine sediments store twice as much carbon as terrestrial soil. How protecting the ocean can save species and stop climate change 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Since most mantle plumes are beneath the oceans, the early stages of volcanism typically take place on the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z More than 900 men remain entombed on the ship that rests on the sea floor in the harbor. A Navy sailor was about to play in a Pearl Harbor football game. Then, disaster struck. 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z They were conducting 3D mapping of the sea floor in the area. Great Barrier Reef: Scientists find reef taller than Empire State Building 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z It can map the sea floor based on sound. Ancient stone patterns add new wrinkle to pipeline debate 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead, the plan emphasized the role of federal waters in economic development, including mining the sea floor, and jettisoned Obama-era approaches that some state governments viewed as trampling on their authority. ‘Very disappointed.’ Trump’s science adviser has left U.S. researchers wanting more 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The characteristics of these various environments, and the processes that take place within them, are also discussed in later chapters on glaciation, mass wasting, streams, coasts, and the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Recent court filings, however, show that the moratorium still leaves the door open for companies to search for oil under the sea floor using sonic blasts, a practice that can harm marine wildlife. Analysis | The Energy 202: How Amy Coney Barrett may make it harder for environmentalists to win in court 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Models for Donatella Versace’s latest co-ed collection walked through the ruins of a fallen, submerged civilization - its own Medusa logo having fallen to the sea floor amid crumbling ionic columns. Milan Fashion: Marni avenges lockdown with global video 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z This helps to explain why hammerheads are “much more maneuverable than a typical shark,” said Dr. Parsons, who thinks the skill may help them snap up food from the sea floor. The Pros and Cons of Swimming With a Hammer Head 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z That would explain why the team saw an orca with its dorsal laid down on the sea floor where halibut are regularly caught by fishermen. Researchers attach cameras to Pacific Northwest orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Figure 18.9 The distribution of sediment types on the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z All hands desperately worked to fix what they could as Fitzgerald ordered the ship to stay on the sea floor. Divers in SE Asia may have found US submarine lost in WWII 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Tectonic shifts that gave rise to mountains, as well as climate changes that enhanced precipitation, accelerated erosion, and helped blanket sea floors with mud hundreds of meters thick. Five charts that will change everything you know about mud 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The HOS Dominator, a submarine support ship, and the Navy’s Undersea Rescue Command will be involved in the effort, including surveying the sea floor. Search ends for 7 Marines and 1 sailor missing after amphibious vehicle sinks off California 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive, a new study reveals. Scientists pull living microbes from 100 million years beneath the sea 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Hess proposed that new sea floor was generated from mantle material at the ocean ridges, and that old sea floor was dragged down at the ocean trenches and re-incorporated into the mantle. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “While stationed at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., during the early 1850s, he developed a device for accurately mapping the deep sea floor,” according to the Navy. Navy says 'absolutely' no chance new warship to be named after former Confederate Navy officer 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The stomach contests of young great white sharks showed that they spend a lot of time patrolling the sea floor for meals. Young Great White Sharks Eat Off the Floor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z This netting of mucus, packed with carbon-rich particles, then collapses like a punctured balloon — sinking a significant load of carbon to the deep sea floor and locking it away from reentering the atmosphere. This fantastical sea creature helps remove planet-warming gases from the atmosphere 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The thick rocks were laid down 300 million years ago when warm tropical seas covered the area, and the bodies of billions of marine creatures cascaded to the sea floor to form the Burren limestone. 'Food will be a by-product': the Irish farmers creating nature-friendly fields 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Subduction earthquakes with magnitude less than 7 do not typically generate significant tsunami because the amount of vertical displacement of the sea floor is minimal. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The area forms every summer off Louisiana and stretches into Texas waters, starting at the sea floor and extending upward. Dead zone prediction: Larger than average; not near record 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z I returned to land in early March after spending 59 days on my first research cruise to map the sea floor in the Southern Ocean, and I’ve been in self-quarantine ever since. In splendid isolation: the research voyages that prepared us for the pandemic 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z It is a shield volcano—a broad dome that rises about 4500 meters from the sea floor from a single source of molten rock. World’s biggest volcano is barely visible 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Sparked by this discovery, last week mission scientists began to map the shallow sea floors that hug the world’s coastlines. Ice-tracking space laser could also map sea floor and monitor health of coral reefs 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Eustatic sea-level changes are global sea-level changes related either to changes in the volume of glacial ice on land or to changes in the shape of the sea floor caused by plate tectonic processes. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The small amount that eventually reaches the sea floor sustains everything from bacteria to sea cucumbers. The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, microbiologists began counting the microbes in cores brought back from the Deep Sea Drilling Project — a large-scale effort to explore the sea floor — and were astounded by the numbers. These microbial communities have learned to live at Earth's most extreme reaches 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z From sea floor to peak, Mauna Loa, on Hawaii’s Big Island, is the tallest shield volcano on Earth. World’s biggest volcano is barely visible 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z It may be no surprise that much of the deep ocean remains unmapped, but sea floors less than 5 meters deep are also unexplored because they are off limits to ships and their sonar beams. Ice-tracking space laser could also map sea floor and monitor health of coral reefs 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z For example, changes in the rate of mid-ocean spreading will change the shape of the sea floor near the ridges, and this affects sea level. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, when whales die, they sink to the sea floor, sequestering their huge stores of carbon far from the atmosphere, where it no longer contributes to climate change. Every breath you take: The economic case for marine life 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z On the sea floor, this patchwork of conditions is created by the burrowing of many kinds of marine animals, such as crustaceans, clams, and worms. Fishing trawlers could harm water quality by disrupting seafloor microbes 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It was a spring so euphoric that it felt as though Carmen Miranda had gone for a stroll along the sea floor and emerged with sponges, sea lilies and anemones clinging to her petticoats. The Many Lives of Marc Jacobs 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z BP’s Deepwater Horizon, which was lost in the infamous explosion and oil spill in 2010, holds the overall record for deepest offshore hole at about 5 miles below the sea floor. How Deep is the Deepest Hole in the World? 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z It may be surprising, considering that parts of the continental crust are close to 4,000 Ma old, that the oldest sea floor is less than 300 Ma. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of handling the supposed sixth-century artifacts with care, Putin, in footage of the dive, is then shown removing them from the sea floor with his bare hands. Vladimir Putin's strangest propaganda moments 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z As expected, the trawling mixed the sediment on the sea floor. Fishing trawlers could harm water quality by disrupting seafloor microbes 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z One possible solution was to extract cores from sediments piled on the sea floor, to see whether the mineral skeletons of algae accumulated faster during glacial times than in the modern era. 30 years of the iron hypothesis of ice ages 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z In 2018, Bahamian authorities seized his mansion, Nygard Cay, following a legal battle with environmental groups over plans to dredge the sea floor in order to expand the property’s size. Fashion executive accused in rape lawsuit reportedly hosted Prince Andrew at Bahamas estate 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Oil and gas originate from organisms living in marine environments, and again, fairly rapid burial is required to preserve the organic matter on the sea floor. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Working with the Seychelles and Maldives governments, the five-week expedition is targeting seamounts — vast underwater mountains that rise thousands of meters from the sea floor. Scientists dive into ‘Midnight Zone’ to study dark ocean 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Scientists on both sides of the North Sea are applying precise new methods to date the artifacts and sequence any genetic traces, as well as mapping the sea floor and analyzing sediment cores. Relics washed up on beaches reveal lost world beneath the North Sea 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z They lurk beneath the surface of the ocean with explosive power, often buried in the sea floor, denying enemies entry into combat-critical waterways. Navy fast-tracks autonomous undersea drones able to find and explode enemy mines 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “A pocket of magma decided it wanted to erupt,” Rivalta said, and so it started heading for the surface — the sea floor. How a mysterious seismic hum led scientists to the birth of an enormous undersea volcano 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Imaging of the sea floor has revealed how shattered remnants of rock - some as high as 90m - slid into the ocean from Anak Krakatau. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In most cases, “gas is bubbling up to the sea floor and lifting sediment and leaving a depression,” says Eve Lundsten, a research technician at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California. What’s creating thousands of craters off the California coast? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In calmer seas, archaeologists might have dived to the sea floor for follow-up searches. Relics washed up on beaches reveal lost world beneath the North Sea 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Then, a Unocal rig blowout cracked the sea floor, spilling 3 million barrels of oil, the third-largest spill in U.S. history. California climate change: Fires, floods and a fight over free parking 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z These layers, called turbidites, usually form when earthquakes shake the sea floor, causing underwater landslides. Two of the biggest US earthquake faults might be linked 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z When these die, their skeletons sink to the sea floor, locking up carbon for millions of years in deposits of limestone. A massive experiment in Taiwan aims to reveal landslides’ surprising effect on the climate 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Garbage attracts marine life, she notes, and the collective swimming and burrowing of creatures like fish, snails, sea anemones, and starfish kicks up fine sediments on the sea floor. What’s creating thousands of craters off the California coast? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But things were very different in 2014, when my master’s student and I were trying to recreate what is essentially a braided river channel on the sea floor. Engineering a dream workspace 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z To gauge motions underwater, scientists rely on a daisy chain in which a ship tracks acoustic beacons on the sea floor—and the ship, in turn, fixes its position with GPS. Drones reveal earthquake hazards hidden in the abyss 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z "One day it's going to happen, especially with the rising demand for spwcial metals - and they're there on the sea floor." Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He quickly spotted two anomalies on the sea floor, and readied another of the ship’s remotely operated vehicles to visit the bottom. Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z For the Nekton Mission, marine scientists from the University of Oxford surveyed underwater life, mapped large areas of the sea floor and ventured deep beneath the waves with manned submersibles and remote vehicles. Seychelles leader: No time for ‘blame game’ in climate fight 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z This, in combination with warming oceans and an influx of fine-grained sand replacing their preferred rocky sea floor as a result of industrial logging, spells bad news for bivalves. People and clams have a more complex history than you might think 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z SUSPENSION: Fine dust or metal particles remain suspended in the ocean instead of settling on the sea floor. Explainer: How do miners dispose of their waste in the sea? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z All three are designed to run quietly and efficiently, with tools to map the sea floor and to teleconference with land-based scientists and the public. Federal research ship to begin studies in the Gulf in 2023 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z It would dive to just a few hundred feet above the sea floor and then spend 24 hours pinging with different sonars back and forth across about 10 square nautical miles. Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z They did find tracks on the sea floor that suggest the station was dragged for some distance. Suspect surfaces in the mysterious case of the underwater research station that vanished 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Long before the dinosaurs walked the Earth, the four-inch long creature dragged its body along a muddy sea floor and became fossilised. Early animal had 'complex behaviour' 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z More than half a billion years ago, a strange, worm-like creature died as it crawled across the muddy sea floor. Ancient worm fossil rolls back origins of animal life 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But the consortium has struggled to find the money for all the cruises it would like to do, and has had to postpone expeditions such as one to explore the Arctic sea floor. Ocean drilling revolutionized Earth science — now geologists want to plumb new depths 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z We simply provoked a mechanical disturbance of the sea floor and studied the recolonization and restoration of the disturbed area over a seven-year period. Testing the environmental impacts of sea-bed mining 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z “You need it when you recover a nuclear propulsion unit from the sea floor.” U.S.-based experts suspect Russia blast involved nuclear-powered... 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The nutrients feed algae, which die and then decompose on the sea floor, using up oxygen. Did Hurricane Barry prevent a near-record ‘dead zone’? 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The ship was one of the largest known animals of its day to churn up the sea floor. ‘Millennium Falcon’ predator soared across ocean floor at dawn of animal life 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The sea floor there boasts one of the world’s largest untapped collections of rare-earth elements. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z But hydrothermal vents naturally occupy relatively small areas of the sea floor, says Thomas. Ocean snail is first animal to be officially endangered by deep-sea mining 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The equipment on the sea floor will be listening for the tagged fish as they swim by. Scientists implant noisemakers in chinook, deploy tracking array on seafloor to solve salmon mystery 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Fourteen submariners were killed on July 1 during a fire in a deep-water research submersible that was surveying the sea floor near the Arctic, according to Russia’s Defence Ministry. Russia nuclear sub fire could have caused catastrophe: report cites... 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Popper's laboratory, for example, used a large contraption to mimic the sounds created by a pile being hammered into the sea floor. A growing sensory smog threatens the ability of fish to communicate, navigate, and survive 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The simulated mining created a plume of disturbed sediment that rained down and buried most of the study area, smothering creatures on the sea floor. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Upon swimming away, the octopus changes its color in an effort to blend in with sea floor. Terrifying video shows diver fighting off giant octopus 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z In addition, nutrients in river water nourish algae blooms so intense that their decomposition on the sea floor consumes oxygen, creating a dead zone every summer for thousands of square miles off the coast. Beyond rivers, Midwestern floodwaters hurt seafood catches 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Some concepts, such as depositing crop wastes on the sea floor, have progressed little beyond thought experiments. Should we fertilize oceans or seed clouds? No one knows 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z But it failed to achieve its ultimate goal of penetrating 5,200 metres beneath the sea floor, into the realm where two tectonic plates meet and cause enormous earthquakes. Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Manganese nodules cover the sea floor in the Clarion–Clipperton Zone.Credit: Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The team suspects a deep magma chamber fed molten rock to the sea floor and then contracted, driving the cracking and creaking of surrounding crust. Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Seen from space, these ‘haloes’ of bare sand surrounding coral reefs in the Red Sea are a result of coral-dwelling fishes eating plants and invertebrates from the sea floor. Daily briefing: First randomized controlled trial shows why a junk-food diet packs on weight 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z One set of cores, from seven holes, was drilled through a drift, a dune on the sea floor. Newly drilled sediment cores could reveal how fast the Antarctic ice sheet will melt 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The MarE3 team was able to deepen the hole from just over 2,900 metres beneath the sea floor to 3,262 metres, breaking its own record for the deepest scientific ocean drilling. Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Since 1970, only 12 small-scale tests have been done on nodule mining, most using a narrow, roughly 2.5-metre-wide instrument to disturb the sea floor. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The map of the sea floor, made by the ship’s multibeam sonar, indicates that as much as 5 cubic kilometers of magma erupted onto the sea floor. Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Periodic storms repeatedly buried the ancient sea floor in sediment, preserving fine imprints of organisms "like a bologna sandwich," Droser says, with the decaying organism as the bologna. This Australian farmer is saving fossils of some of the planet’s weirdest, most ancient creatures 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z He shared that after 74 years on the sea floor, the possible Norseman would be largely deteriorated and unlikely “unrecognizable to the untrained eye.” Glenn Miller’s estate responds to claims of bandleader’s doomed plane possibly uncovered 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Next month, researchers will look on as a mining firm vacuums up metals such as copper and iron that lie in rock deposits — or nodules — on the sea floor in the remote Pacific Ocean. Daily briefing: Top tips for undergraduates looking to break into the lab 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Because the nodules grow so slowly, mining them will effectively remove them from the sea floor permanently, say scientists. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Next month, a Belgian mining firm will use a machine to hoover up metals such as copper and iron that lie in rock deposits — or nodules — on the sea floor in the remote Pacific Ocean. Scientists track damage from controversial deep-sea mining method 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Jackson's six-part documentary will also look at the underwater archaeological evidence of what is left of slave ships on the sea floor. Samuel L Jackson visits Westminster 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z If Earth had never been mined and you had to choose between the rainforest or seabed, "you'd absolutely go to the sea floor," Thaler says. Bus-size robot set to vacuum up valuable metals from the deep sea 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Oceanographers worry that the test won’t be enough to reveal what intensive mining will do to the vibrant life on the sea floor. Daily briefing: Top tips for undergraduates looking to break into the lab 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z As the collectors moved across the sea floor, they would stir up large clouds of soft sediment that would disperse, possibly for tens of thousands of kilometres, before eventually resettling. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The buggy, however, was not retrieved - and remained on the sea floor. Child survives as buggy blown into sea 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Closer to shore, where there’s more risk of damage, an underwater plow is used to bury the cable in the sea floor. How the Internet Travels Across Oceans 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z This allowed the icefish to rise in the water column, like spaghetti in boiling water, and eat krill and other creatures that couldn’t be found near the sea floor. How the Icefish Got Its Transparent Blood and See-Through Skull 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Oceanographer Walter Munk in 1963 with a tide capsule, which was dropped to the sea floor to measure deep-sea tides.Credit: Walter Munk (1917-2019) 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z At high densities, sediment plumes can bury and smother the animals on the sea floor. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The sea floor off the shore of New Orleans, Louisiana, might provide a good start: there are stagnant muds, and local tectonic subsidence will allow the fossil to be securely entombed. The skeleton articulated 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z A Destination pot — the only one retrieved from the sea floor the summer after the boat sank — weighed 840 pounds. NO RETURN: The final voyage of the Destination 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Hideous to behold, the disease causes starfish to fall apart, with pieces of their arms walking away, or their bodies disintegrating on pilings, beaches, rocks, and the sea floor. Starfish die-off along West Coast imperils biggest sea star of all as oceans warm 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z This map shows the topography of the sea floor and of the adjacent Andes. Lost tectonic history recovered from Earth’s deep mantle 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Given those constraints, there’s still an opportunity for scientists to improve how they gauge the risks of harvesting minerals from the sea floor. Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Any animals that came in with the ocean could have been trapped in pockets of water when the ice sheet thickened and once more came to rest like a lid on the sea floor. EXCLUSIVE: Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z And after 74 years on the sea floor, the possible missing Norseman would be largely deteriorated and unlikely “unrecognizable to the untrained eye.” Bandleader Glenn Miller’s doomed plane possibly uncovered decades after disappearing during WWII 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z So the team compiled a database of every tectonic “suture”—the linear features left by tectonic collisions—known to contain ophiolites, those bits of volcanic sea floor, over the past half-billion years. Rise of carbon dioxide–absorbing mountains in tropics may set thermostat for global climate 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z It took a year to raise the hull from the sea floor and drag it to Italy, at a cost of 9.5 million euros. The Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwreck just got deadlier 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It took a year to raise the hull from the sea floor and drag it to Italy. Hunt for names in deadly migrant shipwreck yields more dead 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It took a year to raise the hull from the sea floor and drag it to Italy, at a cost of 9.5 million euros. The Mediterranean's deadliest shipwreck just got deadlier 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Shuffling his staff is just another arrangement of deckchairs aboard an ocean liner already heading towards the sea floor. John Kelly is just the latest victim of Trump's dumpster fire of calamities | Richard Wolffe 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Air-gun blasts used in these surveys create powerful sound waves — which can be louder than a Saturn V rocket at launch — that help to map oil and gas deposits below the sea floor. Black-hole bounty, Ebola emergency and UK science minister resigns 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Using the relatively stable temperature of shallow coastal waters and a predictable supply of solar and artificial light, its six domed greenhouses anchored to the sea floor nurture hydroponic crops such as basil and tomatoes. Dome, sweet home: climate shelters past, present and future 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z This is because olivine crystals align in the direction in which the sea floor spreads when new oceanic plates are created at mid-ocean ridges. Water takes a deep dive into an oceanic tectonic plate 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Trawlers scraped the sea floor clean of silt and seaweed. In Russian Village Swallowed by Sand, Life’s a Beach. Just Not in a Good Way. 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Divers on Thursday retrieved a flight data recorder from the shattered plane on the muddy sea floor off the coast of Jakarta. Lion Air crash: pilot on earlier flight asked to turn plane around 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z A navy diver on board a search vessel told the broadcaster Metro TV that his team found the orange cylinder containing the recorder among debris on the muddy sea floor. Indonesian investigators examine black box from crashed jet 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Divers on Thursday retrieved a flight data recorder from the plane that lay shattered on the muddy sea floor off the coast of Jakarta. Exclusive: Pilot made distress call on doomed Indonesian jet's... 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The authors analysed seismic waves from distant earthquakes, recorded by an array of seismometers on the sea floor. Water takes a deep dive into an oceanic tectonic plate 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “We dug and we got the black box,” from among debris in the mud on the sea floor, the diver, identified as Hendra, told broadcaster Metro TV on board a search vessel, the Baruna Jaya. Black box from crashed Indonesian jet retrieved, diver says 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z They must also carry instruments to collect images of 10 interesting features and find a trophy stashed on the sea floor. Just 18% of the ocean floor has been mapped. XPRIZE drones could change that 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Walruses dive and use sensitive whiskers to find clams and snails in dim light on the sea floor. As sea ice melts, agency says harm to walruses not proven 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z His wooden hut, tethered to the sea floor, had been lurching ominously as heavy winds whipped up the waves around it. Indonesian teenager's ocean ordeal: 'After a week I started to get scared' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z They found that creating a structure of isolated columns or mounds on the sea floor, each about 300 metres high, would require between 0.1 and 1.5 cubic km of aggregate material. Build walls on seafloor to stop glaciers melting, scientists say 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Roughly three-quarters of marine organisms, excluding microscopic species and those that live on the sea floor, produce light. The hidden lives of deep-sea creatures caught on camera 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Companies hoping to mine the sea floor for minerals are also eager to get a better look. Just 18% of the ocean floor has been mapped. XPRIZE drones could change that 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z A canyon along the strait’s sea floor potentially makes it a popular hangout for deep-diving species. Why New Zealand is an attractive destination for scientists 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Nauru is banking on fields of mineral-rich smooth brown rocks about the size of a potato that lie on the sea floor around the tiny island as the possible saviour of its fragile economy. Corruption, incompetence and a musical: Nauru's cursed history 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Scientists gathered an in-depth look at the sea floor from April through July along the strike-slip fault line, which is a fault that moves side to side. Agencies map tectonic fault that touches southeast Alaska 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The neodymium-carrying grit ends up incorporated into the shells of single-celled foraminifera or fish teeth, both of which accumulate over time on the sea floor. Seafloor cores suggest sticky, thick glaciers caused mysterious shift in ice age rhythms 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The multi-beam sonar scans of the flat sea floor west of Kiska on July 17 had quickly picked up an object. Searchers find the sunken stern of a doomed World War II destroyer off the coast of Alaska 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The town is spending $48 million — and raising taxes for property owners — dredging sand from the sea floor and pumping it onto beaches. Once prized and profitable, beachfront real estate can now be a losing proposition 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z He points to nutrients both from falling Saharan dust and pushed up from the sea floor as possible factors, but says more research is needed to establish exact triggers. The seaweed deluge hitting Caribbean shores 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Each sends sound waves and measures reverberations to map the sea floor, which is about 100 feet deep in that part of the ocean. Company to explore ocean floor off Maryland’s coast for offshore wind farm 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z "In my personal opinion they are on the Chinese sea floor in a Japanese jail. Shouldn't we free them, and send them home?" British POWs sank on this WW2 ship - should it be raised? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z In 1974, the US Central Intelligence Agency launched an elaborate operation to recover a Soviet submarine northwest of Hawaii, under the cover of a commercial venture to mine manganese nodules located on the sea floor. Governments must weigh the environmental costs of deep-sea mining 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The New Orleans Advocate, citing court documents, reports that an investigation pointed to a leak in a piping system that is used to transport oil from a production well on the sea floor. Shell subsidiary to pay $3.8 million for 2016 Gulf spill 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z When this seawater meets the Earth’s molten magma it gets superheated and rises up through holes or vents in the sea floor, carrying with it minerals leached from the crustal rock below. Smoking Ocean Vents Found in Surprisingly Shallow Water 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z For the moment, some are snagged on ridges in the sea floor, slowing their flow. Rising bedrock below West Antarctica could delay catastrophic ice sheet collapse 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But over the course of eight years, the reef has had a chance to recover, and now over 80 percent of the sea floor is repopulated with coral. These 38 Coral Reefs Are Thriving, Despite Threats 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The oceans are much less well covered, with only a handful of permanent sensors on the sea floor. Submarine cables could be repurposed as earthquake detectors 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Artifacts recovered in expeditions to the sea floor, the first in 1987, tell other stories. Titanic artifacts exhibit set to open Saturday in Waco 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It is a method that is used to detect underwater objects or to map the sea floor. Device could make objects 'invisible' to sonar 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The fault plane that moved is the boundary between the ancient sea floor and Kilauea. Hawaii's Kilauea emits toxic gas from new cracks bubbling with lava 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor. In U.S. Gulf, robots, drones take on dangerous offshore oil work 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The Bajau are traditionally nomadic and seafaring, and survive by collecting shellfish from the sea floor. 'Sea nomads' evolved for free-diving 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Her experiments aim to show how plate tectonics created the sea floor over billions of years, and how those forces are at work today. Sweet science: Putting corn syrup to work on Earth’s origins 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z She and project leader Chloe Pozas spent the morning transferring tiny coral fragments, once collected from the sea floor, from the tanks to an underwater “rope nursery,” or improvised skeleton. In the Seychelles, coral reefs face climate change threat 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Allen’s team posted close-up video of its anti-aircraft guns, the ship’s name still visible on the hull, and a torpedo lying on the sea floor. Five facts on the discovery of WW2 warship 'Lady Lex' 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Starfish are extremely effective predators on the sea floor, feeding on a wide range of food such as mussels, clams and oysters. Starfish Can See in the Dark (among Other Amazing Abilities) 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Since then generations have grown up with the image of a "man-eater" which glides from the sea floor to the surface, searching for human prey to catch and tear apart with its serrated teeth. Why the Jaws shark is not a 'man-eating monster' 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Her experiments are showing that the lava that erupts from volcanoes to form new sea floor may originate at a shallower depth in the Earth than geologists currently think. Sweet science: Putting corn syrup to work on Earth’s origins 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Superhot fluid darkened by dissolved minerals gushes from fissures in the sea floor, creating the billowing phenomena known as “black smokers.” Rare deep-sea creatures may use underwater chimneys to keep their eggs warm 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Allen’s team posted close-up video of its anti-aircraft guns, the ship’s name still visible on the hull, and a torpedo lying on the sea floor. Five facts on the discovery of WW2 warship 'Lady Lex' 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Piquant touches include the puppet version of the giant squid, who pulls ships down to the sea floor in “I Crush Everything.” Review | Flying V keeps it weird with animal visions, puppetry and other fantastical elements 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z On the sea floor, it uses its hind fins to walk. This walking fish may reveal how animals first took to land 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z They use a set of large fins to swim, and a separate set of smaller fins to walk on the sea floor. Primitive fish's sea-floor shuffle illuminates the origins of walking 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “It’s hard to get to the sea floor because the ocean is sitting on it,” Byrnes says. The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an underwater volcano meltdown 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z In that case, Franz said she terminated the lease because anchors tethering the farm to the sea floor were outside the boundaries of the leasehold. Washington state cancels lease for Atlantic salmon farm off Cypress Island 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Internally, however, Cooke said it “almost lost the farm” and that the cause was fouled nets and weak mooring points anchoring the farm to the sea floor. Fish farm caused Atlantic salmon spill near San Juans, then tried to hide how bad it was, state says 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The Yantar's frequent stops at points along a cable route suggested that a submersible was examining the sea floor, the report said. What makes Russia’s new spy ship Yantar special? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z That permits them to reach most of the sea floor comfortably. A fantastical ship has set out to seek Malaysian Airlines flight 370 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z More than a century later, the wreck of the vessel, which had a crew of 18 Australians, 16 Britons and a New Zealander, has been discovered on the sea floor, ending an enduring naval mystery. Eternal Patrol: Final Resting Place of Lost World War I Submarine Discovered 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Sometimes a wave on a shallow coast somewhere ripples over the rough sea floor and adds its own frequencies to the hum. Have you heard about the ‘hum of the Earth’? 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z An enormous shoveling tool plowed the sea floor and buried the cables for protection. From the Arctic’s Melting Ice, an Unexpected Digital Hub 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Microplastics, which measure less than five millimeters in length, are found throughout the world’s oceans, from the surface to the deep sea floor. To Save the Oceans, Should You Give Up Glitter? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Every block of sea floor that the HUGINs map will be examined by three sets of human eyes. A fantastical ship has set out to seek Malaysian Airlines flight 370 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z At the time of the animal’s death, the shallow sea floor where it lived was located about 150 miles south, in the area of San Diego and Baja California, Hoffman said. Remains of ancient sea cow unearthed off Channel Islands 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s been stabilized and they’re now building what one engineer I talked to called “a Ferrari on the sea floor,” a retractable barrier to keep the storm surge out of the lagoon. Sea Levels Are Already Rising. What's Next? 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z The sheer weight of all that liquid would exert so much pressure on the sea floor that the planet’s interior would not melt at all, Unterborn found. Exoplanet hunters rethink search for alien life 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Contrary to conventional wisdom, a study finds that the shape of the sea floor constrains where these waters rise towards the surface. Oceanography: Mixed up at the sea floor 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z It took tugboats and Cooke’s own vessels working through the night to again tie the farm back to the sea floor and secure it. Atlantic salmon net pen’s collapse followed earlier breakdown 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Over millions of years, the land moved northward with the movement of the Pacific tectonic plate and the sea floor was pushed up to nearly 1,400 feet above sea level. Remains of ancient sea cow unearthed off Channel Islands 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The sensors are part of a $6 million network, funded jointly by Mexico and Japan, that includes nearly 70 new seismometers and GPS stations on land, as well as on the sea floor. Underwater network hunts for mysterious slow quakes 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z There, along a giant rift in Earth’s crust, the Pacific’s sea floor sinks beneath the lighter North American tectonic plate. 50 Ways an Earthquake Could Shatter—or Spare—These Major Northwest Cities 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z “Ocean Infinity will focus on that part of the sea floor,” Chester said. MH370: Malaysia in deal with private search firm to find missing plane 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Early on, it was used by government research agencies to map and measure the natural world, from cloud formations to sea floors to the surface of the Moon. The billion dollar widget steering the driverless car industry 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Some claim the bridge, too, was uprooted from the sea floor by the storm. In India, a ghost town and a mythological bridge 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z And so, we could celebrate a 1963 publication on the magnetism of the sea floor, or a 1967 paper on the geometry of spherical rotations, or even the entirety of the dawning of plate tectonics. Discoveries have awkward first dates 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z As it moves away into the Weddell Sea, it will expose 5,800 square kilometres of sea floor that have been shielded by ice for up to 120,000 years. Giant iceberg’s split exposes hidden ecosystem 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Nicknamed the upside-down jellyfish because of its habit of sitting on the sea floor on its bell, with its tentacles waving upwards, Cassiopea rarely moves on its own. Jellyfish caught snoozing give clues to origin of sleep 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Carrying sensors to measure temperature, salinity, and depth, the floats will descend almost to the sea floor and drift. Billionaire’s gift pushes ocean sensors deeper in search of global warming’s hidden heat 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The scientists heated a patch of the sea floor off the coast of Antarctica and tracked the effects on a few local species. Hot Spots in a Freezing Ocean Offer Lessons in Climate Change 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The archipelago consists of coral reefs sitting atop mountain summits rising from the sea floor. Satellite eye on Earth: July 2017 – in pictures 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Its snout was also turned down, so Boessenecker says it likely spent a fair amount of time grubbing up prey off of the sea floor. New Species of Prehistoric Dolphin Slurped Up Its Prey 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Crawling deftly along the rocks or sand of the sea floor, sea stars find their prey – generally shellfish, like mussels or other bivalves — by following their scent. Sea Stars Are More Brutal Than They Look 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The snakes might ingest pollutants in sediments when they feed on fish eggs on the sea floor, says Goiran. Sea snakes lose their stripes to deal with pollution 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Gray whales are frequently seen feeding on the sea floor, eating amphipods and other small crustaceans, but Mate stressed the animals will feed on whatever food is available to them. Gray Whale Swims With Beachgoers In Incredible Aerial Video 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Sea fleas tend to feed on rotting fish or creatures on the sea floor. Sam Kanizay of Australia recovering from sea fleas who chomped on his legs 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The best of these aquariums look like sections of the sea floor that were spirited away from the ocean: Fish dart above anemones. Homegrown coral reefs are beautiful — and potentially dangerous 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Companies began embracing data analysis not just to locate pockets of oil and gas deep beneath the sea floor, but also to improve production efficiency. Oil Companies at Last See Path to Profits After Painful Spell 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The rest is thought to either be at the bottom of the sea floor, suspended in the water column, eaten by marine animals, or washed up ashore in remote islands. These ocean plastic collectors might end up collecting more Silicon Valley money than trash 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Licences have to be shared equally with a developing nation - each getting half the sea floor. Why are countries laying claim to the deep-sea floor? - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z From time to time, oceanographers have peppered Cascadia's sea floor with monitoring instruments. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z At the time, the Appalachian Mountains—where the Luray Caverns now reside—were an ancient sea floor. How Mother Nature and a Pentagon Mathematician Created the World's Largest Instrument 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Even now, some 11,600 years after the last gas domes burst, methane is still seeping out of the sea floor. Methane exploded from Arctic sea-floor as Ice Age ended 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z We’re in the middle of nowhere and still the sea floor has 200 years of rubbish on it.” 'Faceless' fish missing for more than a century rediscovered by Australian scientists 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The ship was raised in March after almost three years on the sea floor and towed to port. Sewol ferry: Bone of missing victim from South Korea disaster found - BBC News 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Other groups sketched powered cables laid across the sea floor, festooned with scientific instruments. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Another issue is that researchers suspect much of the plastic that enters the ocean sinks to the sea floor, where it is inaccessible to floating trash-catching devices. Critics say plan for drifting ocean trash collectors is unmoored 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Craters and smaller pockmarks have been spotted on sea floors around the world, but it’s not always clear what causes them. Methane exploded from Arctic sea-floor as Ice Age ended 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z After surveying the sea floor, taking borings, and measuring winds, they are getting ready to write their bids. Utilities readying bids for coastal Massachusetts wind farm 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But he and others are attempting to paint a better picture of the sea floor, which may involve dropping drones into Hampton Roads waters. Researchers want to use drones for ocean floor exploration 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z One day, Paros would like to see his sensors peppering the sea floor off Cascadia as part of a broad monitoring network for natural hazards. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Oil exploded from the breach so violently that it shattered the sea floor and gushed uncontrollably into the blue Pacific, congealing into a chocolate mousse mat a foot thick. The environmental disaster that changed California — and started the movement against offshore oil drilling 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The team also discovered mounds in the sea floor — known as pingos — created by methane gas that has pushed towards the surface. Methane exploded from Arctic sea-floor as Ice Age ended 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Wood-munching microbes on the sea floor expel hydrogen sulfide, the molecule responsible for the distinctive smell of rotting eggs. Giant shipworms discovered hiding in sulfurous lagoons 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Globally, just 1% of the sea floor has been explored in detail. New in Paperback : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z For that, researchers must turn to a different technique, which involves two or more transponders that sit 2–3 kilometres apart on the sea floor. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z At the time, geologist Alec Smith of Bedford College in London noticed large, interweaving scour marks on maps of the English Channel sea floor. The original Brexit: How tremendous ice age waterfalls cut off Britain from Europe 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z “The release of methane from the sea floor, even catastrophically, should not inherently imply a release to the atmosphere,” he says. Methane exploded from Arctic sea-floor as Ice Age ended 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Together with colleagues from France and Belgium, Gupta used sonar and seismic measurements of the sea floor to reconstruct the landscape beneath the waves. 1st Brexit: Study shows Britain’s original split from Europe 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It is consumed by worms and other simple organisms on the sea floor, and these are consumed by benthic fish – fish that live on the sea floor or near it, such as the Greenland halibut. Shrinking Arctic sea ice threatens the majestic Beluga whale 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z But making these measurements on the sea floor is difficult and expensive. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z And it all started with a snail — or, more accurately a species of small marine mollusk known as a royal cone snail, which populates shallow sea floors from the Caribbean to the Brazilian coast. A little mollusk may lead to a big discovery in helping solve the U.S. opioid epidemic 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Neither land nor sea floor was in sight, just the deep blue in all directions. Naturalist Richard Pyle explores the mysterious, dimly lit realm of deep coral reefs 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The sea floor shape is quite complicated, particularly near Greenland. OMG measurements of Greenland give us a glimpse of future sea rise | John Abraham 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Animals living on the deep sea floor are relatively isolated from environmental change,” said Sweetman. Deep sea life faces dark future due to warming and food shortage 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Six of his quartz pressure sensors currently rest on the sea floor off Oregon, monitoring which parts of Cascadia are creeping along slowly and which parts are locked in place. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z As they spread across the planet, the meadows altered the sea floor, building soil and supporting entirely new ecosystems. Disappearing Seagrass Protects Against Pathogens, Even Climate Change, Scientists Find 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Scientists unearthed the remnants from the sediment collapse, estimated at 32 cubic kilometres in volume, while conducting 3D multibeam mapping on the deep sea floor. Massive ancient undersea landslide discovered off the Great Barrier Reef 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z But if the sea floor has certain morphological characteristics, the country’s territory can be extended beyond that 200 nautical-mile limit, into an area called the extended continental shelf. Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “We wanted to look at how all of these combined stressors – warming, enhanced acidification, reduced food supply to the sea floor, deoxygenation – would work together to impact the ocean,” said Sweetman. Deep sea life faces dark future due to warming and food shortage 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z After correcting for factors such as waves and tides, oceanographers can detect up or down movements of the sea floor to within about 1 centimetre. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z This led to a “pink gold rush”, in which prawns were trawled with fine mesh nets that were dragged along the sea floor. Bay of Bengal: depleted fish stocks and huge dead zone signal tipping point 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Moysiuk and his colleagues suggest the structures were used to prop the creature up from the sea floor to help it filter-feed. Finding a Home on the Tree of Life for a Tentacled Ice Cream Cone With a Lid 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z On Google Earth, for example, the sea floor appears to be mapped, displaying mountain ranges and submerged islands, but these shapes are actually based on inferred data. Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The scythe-shaped cleft in the western Pacific sea floor, 2550 kilometers long, plunges nearly 11 kilometers, deeper than any other place in the oceans. Expedition probes ocean trench’s deepest secrets 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z When sent down to the sea floor, a Paroscientific pressure sensor measures the changing pressure of the water column above it. The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z They are done by ship-towed air guns that emit an acoustic pulse of energy across expansive areas of the sea floor for long durations. Obama denies permits for seismic testing to search for oil in the Atlantic 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime eels live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food. How the slimy hagfish ties itself up in knots—and survives shark attacks 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The team added other data such as the shape of the sea floor and used statistical techniques to group the results into categories. 3D ocean map tracks ecosystems in unprecedented detail 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Some companies and several nations are researching how to turn huge patches of sea floor into underwater mines and retrieve the metal blobs. ‘Ghost octopus’ has heartbreaking parenting strategy 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Scientists rarely detect these outbursts on the sea floor, but last year, they caught a seamount eruption in the act. Underwater network gives scientists a rare glimpse into deep-sea volcanoes 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “All in all, it makes for a rather dramatic visual to see this steely ship lying at rest on the sea floor,” Harris said. Mysterious lost ships, HMS Terror and Erebus, reveal new layer of clues in Arctic 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z A lot of the extra algae may drop to the sea floor by then, untouched. Global Warming Alters Arctic Food Chain, Scientists Say, With Unforeseeable Results 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Knifefish, which was developed with the contractor General Dynamics, was supposed to provide a low-cost robotic alternative, with the mammals reassigned to port security and retrieving objects from the sea floor. US Navy Plan to Replace Dolphins With Robots Faces Setbacks 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z After a decade of planning, the project penetrated 1,335 metres into the sea floor off the coast of Progreso, Mexico, in April and May. Rock core from dinosaur-killing impact reveals how enormous craters form 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Using equipment that creates a 3D map of the sea floor, the report showed that where the wreck “was once located there is a large ‘hole’ in the seabed”. British second world war ships in Java Sea destroyed by illegal scavenging 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z He suspects that about 1 meter of coastal ground uplift resulting from the fault movement disturbed the sea floor enough to trigger the tsunami. New Zealand earthquake rattles experts 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Paul Zukunft, testified that “once it settles to the sea floor, our technology is lacking.” The tar sands’ threat to our waters 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z These artificial spheres of cement mixed with cremated remains are laid to rest on the sea floor by teams of professional divers, and meant to look and act like a coral reef. Baby Boomers: Encase Me in Concrete and Dump Me in the Ocean 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The eggs accumulate in invertebrates that live along the sea floor, where monk seals often feed. Much ado about poo: Feces fuels Hawaii feral feline debate 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The drill mechanism got to 1,335m below the modern sea floor. Chicxulub 'dinosaur crater' investigation begins in earnest - BBC News 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z We see the massive blowout preventer on the sea floor, which is rumbling and bubbling and being ominous. ‘Deepwater Horizon’ movie gets the facts mostly right, but simplifies the blame 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Victoria Orphan, a geobiologist and explorer of marine life on the sea floor, is one of eight scientists to win a ‘genius grant’ this year from the philanthropic MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. Deep-sea microbes, simple medical diagnostic tools and complex computing win 2016 MacArthur ‘genius grants’ 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z At the wreck site, only broken pots now remain on the sea floor — the sponge divers recovered all artefacts visible on the seabed in 1900–01. Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z In between expansive canyons, towering underwater mountains known as seamounts rise from the sea floor to heights of over 7,700 feet. Obama to Create the First U.S. Atlantic Marine Monument 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z And just like ours, that rocky sea floor is almost certainly volcanically active — what else could be sending geysers of water surging into the sky? Looking for aliens on ocean worlds: ‘You’d be in denial to believe there isn’t life out there’ 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life’s thermal limit within reach. Deep-sea drilling expedition to look for life's limits in scalding environments 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It would encompass an area of about 4,180 square miles, with canyons 2½ miles deep and seamounts that soar 7,700 feet from the sea floor. Researcher shares world of coral canyons, seamounts 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The technology allows scientists to cover large areas of the sea floor that are not easily mapped by other means. Me and my drone: how automatons are changing research 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Some of it is probably on the sea floor. Bottles, bags, ropes and toothbrushes: the struggle to track ocean plastics 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z It may look like a creature making a great Finding Dory cameo, but this adorable underwater specimen spotted relaxing on the sea floor is no Pixar animation. Yes, This Adorable Googly-Eyed Stubby Squid Is Real 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z These containers are placed above the sea floor to grow oysters. Mississippi considers multiple sites for oyster aquaculture 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The new instrument was therefore developed to operate at the sea floor. Microscope observes life of the ocean floor - BBC News 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Lizardfish typically dwell on the sea floor, where they lie in wait for their prey. Meet 10 Bizarre and Beautiful Creatures from the Deep 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z But one thing’s clear: these tiny bizarre things resembling bags of mud moved across the sea floor, leaving trails. ‘On Trails’: where, how and why the earth’s creatures wander 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The footage was captured by a remotely-operated submersible, sent down to the sea floor by scientists working on the ocean exploration vessel E/V Nautilus. Yes, This Adorable Googly-Eyed Stubby Squid Is Real 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The buoy is connected to a weighted frame that sits 125 feet below on the sea floor. Listening in on whales off New York’s Fire Island 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z A search vessel looking for the remains of victims of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May has recovered all of the mapped bodies from the sea floor, investigators say. EgyptAir crash: Flight MS804 bodies are recovered - BBC News 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The core came from an elevated patch of sea floor known as the Bermuda Rise, where sediments accumulate abnormally fast. Crippled Atlantic currents triggered ice age climate change 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The buoy sits six feet above the sea surface and is anchored to the sea floor 125ft below via hoses to a weighted frame. New York's whales to be studied for the first time 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Sulfate-reducing bacteria in the sediments, which thrived on methane seeping up through the sea floor. This underwater ‘lost city’ was actually built by microbes 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, there is an urgent search for the plane’s black boxes — thought to be amid the wreckage on the sea floor. EgyptAir crash: Clock ticking on finding downed plane's black boxes 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z When sonar is used to scan the area, “you get a complex play of echoes that was nicknamed cobblestone, showing the sea floor is very bumpy,” Dr. Ryan said. Signals From Plane Hint at Swift Catastrophe, Aviation Website Reports 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He also predicted — correctly — that these signatures could be extracted from the ocean sediments covering the sea floor and used to track how ocean circulation has changed over time. Harry Elderfield (1943-2016) : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Sixty years after the SS Andrea Doria slammed into another ocean liner off Nantucket, killing 46 people, explorers are preparing to get a fresh glimpse of the wreckage on the sea floor. 10 Things to Know for Today 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It doesn't move very quickly — mostly, it creeps across the sea floor. The Verge Review of Animals: the sea cucumber 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Yet, even if search teams find the boxes, the sea floor it’s too deep for humans to retrieve. EgyptAir crash: Clock ticking on finding downed plane's black boxes 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The Mediterranean Ridge is a portion of the sea floor pushed upward by the African tectonic plate of the earth’s crust as it slides under the Aegean Sea, deforming and crumbling the seafloor. Signals From Plane Hint at Swift Catastrophe, Aviation Website Reports 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Its stated purpose was to study sediment on the sea floor dating back millions of years to study climate change, but it used the same technology. Ocean blasting: Groups seek ban as big Atlantic test looms 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z |
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