ocean floor
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The underwater vehicle was coasting about six feet above the ocean floor, two miles deep, when a pinkish, mysterious creature swam into its camera’s sights, drawing gasps in the research vessel floating at the surface.
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
They drilled about 26,000 feet into the ocean floor, recovered sediment samples, and analyzed the material.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
As the Hughes Glomar Explorer raised the craft on its first mission, part of it broke apart, descending back to the ocean floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
It is called multibeam echo sounder technology and it can provide a 3-D topographical map of the ocean floor and any structures, including shipwrecks, that are lying there.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
