ocean floor
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The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
They are the internet's hidden highways - bundles of optical fibres on the ocean floor carrying data between continents as pulses of light.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Many also live around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, environments that some theories identify as possible locations where life first arose.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Plus, we look at new fronts erupting in the Iran war, and a daring mission to recover American POWs from the ocean floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Some three million shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor, and along with them, much of human history hides beneath the waves.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
