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Sentence Examples In butterfly, shoulder flexibility can facilitate the arm recovery and can save energy for the important underwater pull. All strokes are videotaped underwater with video analysis of campers' strokes. The bacteria-like organism lives in a hellish undersea environment where water boils out from underwater vents called black smokers. Sea squirts spend most of their lives attached to underwater rocks, sifting tiny particles of food from the water around them. I flipped somersaults and bumped blindly into various other bodies and boards as I traveled toward shore underwater. Oil companies are also hopeful that the system will save them millions by detecting strong underwater currents that can stress oil rig platforms. A treasure trove of undiscovered marine life has been found on an underwater mountain top in the Caribbean. You need to call your lender if you're either underwater on your mortgage or behind and you need help. If the lake is shallow there can be a very strong underwater tow, whether the wind is blowing or not. Some of the considerable biodiversity of corals may come from underwater versions of mules, say researchers. Well, in a landscape so void of life above water, the underwater contrast is huge. He is passionate about both diving and underwater photography and does not want to let me down. Votier says he's seen a skua catch a bird and hold it underwater to drown it. We were on the rock and had to deflate the boat underwater to reduce the pressure the water was exerting upon the boat. The penguins can be viewed, not just from a sloping arena but also from underwater viewing areas. Their services were regularly required for underwater building and repairs around the city. Many thousands of acres now lie underwater or are so wet that they will be inaccessible for many months. The police helicopter and the force's underwater search unit were also bought in to assist. And if you go in for underwater photography, take three times as much film as you think you need. Police officers have combed the area with dogs and an underwater team has searched the canal near his work. Show More Sentences Meanwhile, officers were waiting for an underwater team to arrive to begin a search of nearby ponds. In her spare time, she is a keen sports diver and underwater archaeologist. He planned to shatter the world record for time spent underwater by a single person using scuba equipment. He'd just returned from scuba diving in the Red Sea where he clocked up many a mile of underwater exploring. This is basically an underwater parachute which fills with water and slows the boat down. The voice penetrated my deep cloud of sleep, a silvery bolt of lightning flashing through the underwater dream-currents. We were chasing an underwater target and having a good time, using sonobuoys before moving in for the kill with the dipping sonar. While on the subject of canyons, there are some really spectacular underwater canyons off Great Dog Island to the west of Tortola. This underwater fleet rapidly surfaced and diminished as vessels were cannibalized to keep their sister craft operational. A canoeist who can read a river and avoid underwater obstructions is a priceless companion on any river trip. Most of the shots of the old man under the sea were done in the dark or underwater, so the cheapness of the model is generally masked. The nylon line that anglers use frequently breaks when hooks become snagged on underwater obstructions or bankside vegetation. Subjects may hyperventilate for several minutes before diving to increase underwater time. Now, those pumps could themselves be underwater if the river overflowed its banks. While the animals lack sonar, they do posses superb directional underwater hearing and the ability to see in near-darkness. The SUNS system can determine positions underwater by the use of small buoys which broadcast the position and time references by sonar signals. In this film there are no underwater shots of marine life in its natural habitat. These are important, not to find fish so much as underwater islands and plateaux in deeper areas just off shore. It was raining and the light was poor, but underwater visibility wasn't bad. I learned how to hold my breath underwater, blow bubbles out my nose, and kick. Show More Sentences Exceptional water clarity, which is a norm for the northwest Hawaiian region, facilitated effectiveness of the underwater observations. He charged that the underwater ceramics were excavated and treated unprofessionally by the salvage companies. One of the most peaceful places on earth is actually 15 metres underwater on the Great Barrier Reef. Divers from all over the world enthuse about the underwater flora and fauna found in the depths of Cork's best dive sites. He's been down in every imaginable piece of diving gear known to man as well as a wide array of underwater submersibles and crafts. Armed men hijack the vehicle when Dr. Quest is away, taking Race and Jonny to an underwater base. When anchored underwater, file snakes are able to strike at passing fish on the menu. Detectives launched a hunt for the Leeds University student involving underwater search teams, mounted officers and sniffer dogs. Atholville, New Brunswick, lay underwater in a coastal estuary, a brackish fresh and salt water environment teeming with life. In fact, I feel like I've been off of work for about a year, and that year was spent working on a chain gang or holding my breath underwater. But Stan was not there to do anything more than simply be one of the boys, shooting more underwater video footage for himself. The locations of the mines were then confirmed using underwater navigation and communications technology. Our first glimpse of the underwater world, implied through a perspective of giant rings, has a Wagnerian grandeur. It is a much larger bird than the waterhen and it is intriguing to watch it as it conducts its underwater manoeuvres. They dive from the water's surface to pursue prey underwater, propelled by powerful, webbed feet. The array tube is filled with mineral oil to create neutral buoyancy, allowing the array to float behind the underwater towing vehicle. He is responsible for teaching students how to properly take X-rays of welds to ensure they will stand up to underwater stress. Fabroc is currently being used for outdoor clothing of all types including underwater wetsuits for deep-sea use. One by one, she held them underwater in the kitchen sink before dumping their bodies in plastic bags in her wheelie bin. He might surface, gasp for air and taunting by his pirate comrades and then be keelhauled back underwater. Show More Sentences A seal has come to join us, and of course to demonstrate to us its superior underwater agility. For 35 years he was a diver, and spent much of his time underwater exploring the wrecks of ships swallowed up by the vast ocean. Thrashing the water with opened wings, the bird repeatedly disappeared completely underwater. This simple demonstration provides an understanding of refractive lens power and promotes a discussion of why a mask helps you see underwater. When a mother yapok dives underwater, her baby is saved from drowning by a waterproof pouch. Diving beetles typically have natatorial legs as they spend most of their time underwater. This prohibited nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater. It is amazing how long this woman can hold her breath and work hard underwater. When she got down to the pool, Liam was underwater, doing a few laps down the length of the pool. My friends seem to spend an inordinate amount of time inside wind tunnels, aboard locomotives, and underwater. Mining often is carried out underwater and one could avoid the water by building bunds and so on. Anhingas are very similar to Cormorants. They are both diving birds and can swim quite a distance underwater to catch fish. Easier to watch were the anhingas,who between long dives underwater swam with nothing but their snaky necks and heads above the water's surfaces. You can jump in the water right away with an instructor and witness the most astounding underwater plant and animal life in the Caribbean. The other way to take in the amazing variety of underwater sites that line the leeward side of Bonaire is by shore diving. I decided to attempt to swim two lengths of the pool underwater on a single breath, a feat that I have accomplished a couple of times before. Store cameras and lenses in padded cases and, in very damp environments, in locking plastic bags or even underwater housings. The world's only accurate detection system today is spread along the three major underwater fault lines in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. The scientists say it is the first time that such a complex life form has been found living in an underwater volcano. Fixed surface platforms, submarine power cables and underwater tanks are all existing technology. Show More Sentences For underwater sabotage missions, each diver can carry a limpet mine to attach to the hull of enemy watercraft or docks. All would seem to have ended well, but I must act before this new underwater procedure of tying your aqualung down spreads into other waters. These and numerous other aquatic creatures and plants comprise a composite underwater stream ecosystem of the southeastern United States. Gavin took the end of the rope and, with an impressive lack of hesitation, disappeared underwater. For the recording of swimmers' movements on tape you can use normal video equipment with special underwater system. During the Cold War, the U.S. established a super secret underwater listening post at Midway in an attempt to track Soviet submarines. That way you guys could save floundering swimmers and litigiously solve underwater fish murders. Now and then a pair of lobsters, plated in Prussian blue, jousted in their underwater dungeon. Mirrored projections face each other, pulsing like an underwater shot of baleen, white tissue-like net moving in and out. But the underlying investments could be at least 20 per cent underwater because of bad stock markets. But a surprising number of deaths are also caused because manatees have no fear of Florida's underwater canal gates and locks. Orange roughy were found in concentrations in some locations, but underwater pinnacles and other obstructions made trawling very difficult. He writes articles for newspapers and magazines on travel, scuba diving, underwater photography and heritage photography. For aspiring underwater photographers the road to success is littered with obstacles. Explore coral formations, underwater walls and sheltered caverns aswarm with fish of all colors. The web implants were fairly simple to master, and significantly increased speed of movement underwater. With more than half of all stock options granted in the '90s underwater, you can bet the boss is finding other ways to get paid. The decline had partially filled with tailings and other debris while underwater, necessitating significant rehabilitation. They were not quick enough to escape the sudden underwater avalanches during the Flood, and paid the price. Despite the size of the sharks, she felt at ease in the underwater environment and helped clean the tank and feed the aquariums other fish. Show More Sentences If water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, why can't we breathe underwater? I think our underwater streamline sprints have had a lot to do with that record. Free masks, flippers and snorkels are usually on offer, but we were late in the day and the underwater guides had headed off to their beers. He went under again, heading to the far side of the pool, his legs scissoring and his arms moving like underwater wings. It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey. Also, items made of the wartime plastic-like Bakelite material had passed the underwater test of time in very good condition. These underwater rock piles run perpendicular from shore toward the channel to divert water to help scour the channel. The children had been tossed around underwater but managed to get to their feet and scramble to higher ground. They pose balletically in studios, chase each other underwater, admire themselves in store windows. Now if I look like a heffalump underwater, I have no one to blame but myself. Methane is often called marsh gas because it forms in swamps and marshes from the underwater decomposition of plant and animal material. The second fan generated a semblance of underwater movement in Atlantic, scrim rippling along the flow. Try-dives are organised to give anyone interested a taste of breathing underwater using a scuba unit in a safe, controlled environment. They use their vibrissae as sensing organs underwater to monitor the movements of fishes and other prey. A young seal pup appeared from nowhere, performing an underwater ballet for our benefit. These thick mats of seaweed create underwater jungles that are home to fish, urchins, and other marine life. The centre offers diving, spearfishing, underwater photography, and simply sailing. Most boat owners apply anti-foul paint to prevent barnacles and other marine growth from attaching itself to the underwater hull. Do you know that in Nevada 70 percent of the home mortgages are underwater? As larvae, the mayflies have spent two years feeding and growing underwater but now it is time for them to begin their brief lives in the air. Show More Sentences Four years later though, and I was the only one still thrashing around in the shallow end, terrified of getting his head underwater. The deadpan vocals are suitably dark but lack the power to cut through the layers of underwater guitar and bass. Others say that the squid deaths have been caused by underwater seismic surveys using air guns. It wasn't long before I began to predict the frogs' underwater routes by watching the wakes left by the powerful thrusts of their hind legs. One version, now seen as discredited, suggests it was made possible by a tidal wave caused by an underwater volcanic eruption. So don't expect too much in the way of pelagics, just enjoy the spectacle afforded by man's own contribution to the underwater environment. In these steep underwater cliff areas were chimneys of gravel that contained datolite nodules. From the claustrophobic setting of an underwater oil rig to the potential nuclear meltdown each scene slowly tightens the screws of suspense. The sediments that form tombolos often form in ridges along an underwater wave-cut terrace. On November 3 an underwater path to safety was marked with stakes and lined with a chain of small boats crewed by firefighters. The software giant decided not to cancel its underwater options because of the accounting consequences and, instead, just granted new ones. There are homing rockets, underwater torpedoes, water mines and cannon shells plus a few others to hunt down enemy boats. The rangers set up underwater microphones attached to amplifiers on the jetty. If you have trouble with water going up your nose breath out whilst your underwater or consider using a nose clip. I pulled my head up from underwater and gasped air, shaking water out of my hair in a spray of droplets. Its members have been checking underwater structures and helping the Coast Guard patrol the harbor whenever a cruise liner berths. More than 200 officers will be drafted in for crowd control, backed up by an underwater unit, mounted police and a helicopter team. She said the divers will have to work with the tides and underwater visibility to do their job. Much trade was lost during the floods because people believed the entire city was underwater. The next steps involve the whole stroke, removing the fins, underwater kicking to stroke start and finally the block start. Show More Sentences But you try doing the splits upside down with your head underwater and all the while keeping a smile on your face. In completely blacked-out underwater conditions, two divers conducted a tactile search to locate a sunken Iraqi minelayer with her deadly load. But what makes it even more unique is its transparent fabric, which allows for amazing underwater viewing. I'd like a pygmy hippo for overland journeys, and a manatee for underwater travel. Shallow water bridge inspections are performed by State Inspection Teams using sounding rods and underwater cameras. The trawl net is like a long bag, and dragged underwater behind the trawler for about four hours. Unesco has adopted a new cultural convention to protect historic shipwrecks and underwater artefacts from pillaging. When you're not underwater, coat yourself in deet or be eaten alive by bloodthirsty blackflies. Open-ocean travelers-such as whales, tuna and sharks visit the underwater mountains on their migratory routes. So of course, we start swimming toward it because I wanted the underwater camera guy to shoot me in the foreground of this shark. Splitting her time between homes in Knightsbridge and Gloucestershire, she swims her daily 30 lengths in a swimming pool fitted with underwater speakers. Early morning swimmers, those in the club for competition, water polo, canoe polo, underwater hockey, and mere sun lovers all find what they want at the town's aquatic centre. These particular tonguefish seem to specialize in living right at the openings of the underwater volcanoes in places most fish would, and do, die. Did NBC inadvertently air an underwater flash during live coverage of a women's water polo game? One old soldier is on the path to a doctorate in mathematics and another is a trained underwater welder. The underwater cleanup was the second combined effort of its kind organized by the city administration, the local community and the private sector. The primary structure of steel arches was chosen to span a cavernous underground cistern, part of the city's drainage system, and avoid underwater foundations. Mr Metcalf, who was based at Ramsbottom Fire Station, dived for the boy but his rope became snagged on an underwater branch and he became submerged himself. Capturing a manatee is like lassoing a bucking bronco, only underwater. We clambered out of the water after some serious underwater rock climbing. Show More Sentences They have confirmed that an underwater investigations have identified hairline fissures on the A-frame structures which support the propellor shafts. As your body undulates with a powerful underwater dolphin, make sure your energy is directed forward by keeping the hands and arms as level as possible. But according to the lps data, underwater borrowers are also prepaying at a much faster clip. The gen X-y video boasted a giant cannonball rolling down suburban streets, as well as front woman Kim Deal singing underwater. We lost all navigational and wireless aids and spent the next hour or so seeking out emergency landing strips, but those we located were underwater. Some interesting exceptions to the correlation between body size and pneumaticity occur in birds that dive underwater to feed, such as grebes, loons, and penguins. Stern horizontal rudders levelled off the submarine underwater. They were over land, at least, so they wouldn't asphyxiate underwater. Underneath the most placid waters, there are vicious currents and tides, and underwater volcanoes that are constantly erupting. People are being forced to seek modifications for their underwater mortgages, watch retirement savings wither and choose between medicine and meals. Their bones are very strong to withstand the underwater pressure. Reading Pygmy is like trying to do a crossword puzzle while riding a horse underwater. They were primarily used to attach limpet mines to moored ships, bridges, and so on and also for clearing underwater obstacles with plastic explosives. In 2006, Taylor began installing his first major underwater construction in Grenada. When the crew travels underwater, they discover a land where the mermen and merwomen speak a Southern American drawl. However, in films of murres underwater, relative upstroke speed and thrust appear to be greater during vertical descent against high buoyancy than during horizontal swimming. For three weeks, he's been on assignment for a hydroelectric company, surveilling their underwater power cables that stretch from the mainland to Vancouver Island. These things are now being used as AUVs, autonomous underwater vehicles. During the Antarctic spring adults congregate in nearshore colonies, where females give birth to a single pup and males vie for underwater mating territories. They suggest that fish are very rare in Cambrian and Ordovician rocks because they were active swimmers and could generally escape from the underwater avalanches. Show More Sentences Divers can explore the underwater wonders of Eastern Indonesia on seven to eight days cruises to the islands of Komodo, Alor, Flores, Sumbawa and Lombok. Also, only in the underwater optical environment do the illuminant and background change independently of each other, creating complex problems for crypsis. They show adaptations for underwater swimming, including flattened tarsi and humeri, and shorter wings and higher wing-loading than most other petrels. While attempting to pull a bin of canned food toward him, Bob is momentarily pulled underwater by a walker sneak-attack. If these borrowers ever get underwater on their mortgages, they will almost certainly pull back on spending, turn risk averse and generally retrench. Each year, lured by cheap airfares and strong currency, Brits flock down under to don their scuba gear and explore its underwater technicolour paradise. Throughout both days the divers would speak to the public via underwater communications, play noughts and crosses with the children and generally entertain the crowd. Wiley and three co-workers pour 10 metric tons of food pellets into the pens each day and monitor the fish with underwater video cameras to see when they stop eating. Four years later, when hurricane Katrina hit, 80 percent of the city went underwater, at an average level of four feet. This has a big effect on reducing underwater visibility, as the mainland feeds the River Tyne with water-borne sediment and delivers it in suspension into the North Sea. The report also found that a low portion of these underwater homeowners were delinquent on their mortgages. Theoretically, the ship can take on all comers in the air, sea, underwater or on land. After it has been uprighted, sponsons will be welded to the starboard side that has been underwater for a year. It's just like pushing a fully inflated basketball underwater. In addition to helping us power our cars, imitating sharks could lead to swifter ships and more advanced underwater sensors. A few hundred meters upriver, you see groves of date palms swaying as if underwater. Plaited terylene line is nice to hold on to, especially when you need to drag yourself back down to the hook to disengage it, or use it for a bit of underwater rock-climbing. The tessera was recovered from the Ninfeo of Punta Epitaffio during the underwater excavation in the sea in front of Baia, which nowadays is a little town near Naples. Beyond the increase in activity of the human kind, the dream of Scylla turning into an underwater haven for marine life looks to be turning to fruition. His agent, who is planning a controversial exhibit of the photos Alex took just prior to blacking out underwater, is pressuring him to attend the show's opening. Show More Sentences The bad news is that Romney is still underwater, meaning that more voters continue to see him unfavorably than favorably. The Scandinavian test may have documented an underwater version of the bowerbird strategy, in which females go for the glitter to find the best guy. Rescuers were racing against time last night to haul up a mini-submarine stuck 190 metres underwater near the Pacific coast before the seven sailors on board run out of air. The ocean swell presses a thick plankton soup into the fjords and channels in the area, forming a base for an impressive array of underwater life forms. The idyllic, mild climate and transparent sea makes it the most attractive area for underwater and surface water-based activities including sailing and diving. It was a strangely shaped block, due to the area once being underwater, and he took it home with him to examine closer. Not everyone wants to spend their entire holiday diving, and we know many of you like to combine underwater sightseeing with a family holiday or a break with friends. I finally allowed my eyes to close as the sounds of the ocean picked up through an underwater microphone that emitted its pickup through speakers in the room. Such opportunities are highly-valued by the scientific community, as the thickness and quality of the polar ice can be measured with a great deal of accuracy from underwater. Yet another revealed the mustachioed show host signing off at the end while taking a puff of his signature cigar, underwater. Cut when flowers are half-open, and then re-cut stems underwater. Once underwater, the pair let the outside world disappear, communing with the natural elements beneath the sea's surface in an attempt to banish their worries forever. They were found on what was once the Thames foreshore, and would have been stored underwater in a wattle enclosure to stop the wood drying out and splitting. Their underwater acoustic sense and echo-location skills are legendary. Among the clutter of computer screens, racks of original prints and an underwater camera casing are enlarged copies of the rare archive photographs taken of the sinking boats. Since that time, considerable advances have been made in the science of underwater acoustics and the hardware used for the detection of faint signals. From the opening ski jump off a mountain to the underwater action sequence featuring a Q converted Lotus automobile, everything about the movie is big, big and bigger. Whatever the phenomenon's cause, he says, scientists should now recognize that icebergs can be a source of noise for seismometers and underwater acoustic sensors. High-resolution bathymetric data and side-scan sonar surveys of pockmarks, depressions up to 300 m long, were obtained by using an autonomous underwater vehicle. But I also remember being amazed by the lush underwater scene and taking home happy memories of rabbitfish snacking on our bubbles as they escorted us around the house reef. Show More Sentences I'm sure this has helped me in my personal quest to shoot meaningful underwater photographs that I hope communicate the emotions I feel when I'm diving. Holmes will present research on his underwater listening device in Vancouver on May 20 at the semi-annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. A ear-splitting neigh jolted him back to his senses, and a sudden flash of white shot towards him, ducking underwater for a split second to lift him up beneath it. As many as one in six homeowners are currently what's known as underwater. They offer everything from diving equipment and lessons, to snorkeling gear and swim fins for an enjoyable underwater experience merely feet from your room. View sunken ships, underwater castles, and other detailed underwater experiences, all from the perspective of being safely behind the glass of an underwater diving vessel. The American coastline is similarly vulnerable to the underwater predators. Up to now the handsome Prince Rainier has preferred big-game hunting, yachting, car racing and diving into underwater caverns off the south of France, to seeking a wife. Graphic video footage shows other swimmers racing to the rescue before she disappears underwater and the sea turns red. Like an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing. Some alcids remain underwater as long as two minutes, exceptionally even longer, and dive to depths of thirty metres. The hydrostatic effect of variable ballast tanks is not the only way to control the submarine underwater. Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far. The Storegga Slides were a series of underwater landslides, in which a piece of the Norwegian continental shelf slid into the Norwegian Sea. The theory is a vast underwater landslide in the English Channel was triggered by the earthquake, which in turn caused a tsunami. A serious risk with underwater tunnels is major water inflow due to the pressure from the sea above, under weak ground conditions. The world's first underwater tunnel was Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel built in 1843 and now used to carry the East London Line. In addition, the strong currents had washed ashore many of the underwater obstacles. The wreck is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, discovered in 1957 by National Geographic explorer Luis Marden. Cameron criticized previous Titanic films for depicting the liner's final plunge as a graceful slide underwater. Show More Sentences As of October 2013, underwater hockey is the only underwater sport being practised. He then took the stake to the river Lochy and put it underwater, and returning later he saw a large salmon had gotten impaled on it. Deep ocean currents are currently being researched using a fleet of underwater robots called Argo. When a dive is successful, gannets swallow the fish underwater before surfacing, and never fly with the fish in their bill. Because of its corrosion resistance, lead is used as a protective sheath for underwater cables. Bay Area Rapid Transit, a regional Rapid Transit system, connects San Francisco with the East Bay through the underwater Transbay Tube. Gannets hunt fish by diving into the sea from a height and pursuing their prey underwater. In the autumn of 2000 large swathes of the town were underwater, notably Frankwell, which flooded three times in six weeks. Until 2006, she was still travelling the world, finding inspiration both from ancient civilisations and underwater worlds for her art work. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. It was the first verified submarine capable of independent underwater operation and movement, and the first to use screws for propulsion. In 1866, the Sub Marine Explorer was the first submarine to successfully dive, cruise underwater, and resurface under the control of the crew. This underwater cultural heritage is protected by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Densities decrease in winter when storms cause them to seek protection in cracks and around larger underwater structures. The hood begins to inflate as the seal makes its initial breath prior to going underwater. On land, however, the sea turtles are nearsighted because the lenses in the eyes are spherical and adjusted to refraction underwater. Other seaducks forage by diving underwater, taking molluscs or crustaceans from the sea floor. Sperm whales are not the easiest of whales to watch, due to their long dive times and ability to travel long distances underwater. Like all cetaceans, killer whales depend heavily on underwater sound for orientation, feeding, and communication. In contrast, the marine mammal prey of transients hear well underwater at the frequencies used in killer whale calls. Show More Sentences Disturbance from underwater industrial noise may displace whales from critical feeding habitat. Tsunamis, caused by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and in some cases destroyed entire towns. Researchers have found males gather underwater, turn on their backs, put their heads together and vocalize to attract females ready for breeding. Although pinnipeds have a fairly good sense of smell on land, it is useless underwater as their nostrils are closed. The Weddell seal has perhaps the most elaborate vocal repertoire with separate sounds for airborne and underwater contexts. The underwater vocals of Weddell seals can last 70 seconds, which is long for a marine mammal call. While most vocals are audible to the human ear, a captive leopard seal was recorded making ultrasonic calls underwater. Magnox fuel is reprocessed since it corrodes if stored underwater, and routes for dry storage have not yet been proven. Therefore, on Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. This has only recently become technically feasible with advances in GPS and newer underwater visual devices. Recent advances in underwater tracking devices are illuminating what we know about marine organisms that live at great Ocean depths. In other words, bathymetry is the underwater equivalent to hypsometry or topography. They spend their lives in the water, having to mate, give birth, molt or escape from predators, like killer whales, underwater. The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. It is connected to the Langeled pipeline, currently the world's longest underwater pipeline, and thus to a major European gas pipeline network. An underwater observatory in Milford Sound allows tourists to view them without diving. This was the case on the western Florida coast in 2017, just before Hurricane Irma made landfall, uncovering land usually underwater. Mudskippers feed and interact with one another on mudflats and go underwater to hide in their burrows. Cargo ships, pile drivers, and explosions conducted underwater produce low frequencies that may be detected by oysters. They are curious and will often look in on divers in the water and are impressive to watch underwater. Show More Sentences Loons can live as long as 30 years and can hold their breath for as long as 90 seconds while underwater. This membrane, when shaken, is able to produce various sounds and calls depending on whether the seal is underwater or on land. So extreme is their adaptation to life underwater that they are unable to survive on land. Most species undergo submarine pollination and complete their entire life cycle underwater. Limited range and speed, especially underwater, made these weapons difficult to use tactically. Another method involves mooring to offshore buoys, such as a single point mooring, and making a cargo connection via underwater cargo hoses. As dolphins are mammals and do not have gills they may drown while stuck in nets underwater. Many sea battles through history also provide a reliable source of shipwrecks for underwater archaeology. In 1812 Russian engineer Pavel Shilling exploded an underwater mine using an electrical circuit. As time passed, exhaustion and despair led people in the sea to give up and slip underwater. Navigation underwater was accomplished using a directional gyrocompass or by following instructions radioed from the transport barge. Mobile defenses could be had underwater, too, in the form of nuclear submarines capable of firing missiles. Here, they can access their food supply underwater even when their pond is frozen over. Plants such as kelp and algae grow in the water and are the basis for some underwater ecosystems. Although these species hunt underwater, they breed on land or ice and spend a great deal of time there, as they have no terrestrial predators. In 2004, a potentially active underwater volcano was found in the Antarctic Peninsula by American and Canadian researchers. It collided with southern Baltica in the Devonian, though this microcontinent was an underwater plate. The world's largest known underwater waterfall, known as the Denmark Strait cataract, flows down the western side of the Denmark Strait. The Caribbean sea floor is divided into five basins separated from each other by underwater ridges and mountain ranges. The major mechanism of canyon erosion is now thought to be turbidity currents and underwater landslides. Find more words! 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