How To Use Seabed In A Sentence

Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
The pylon is to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum featuring relics uncovered from the Mediterranean seabed. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
The foreshore and seabed being owned by a subset of New Zealanders instead of all New Zealanders is what the billboard is about.
They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
Ten percent of the foreshore and seabed is owned down to the mean high water spring by Maori under Maori title.

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Adjacent coastal states have sovereign rights over the seabed mineral resources of the shelf.
Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted. Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma
The seabed under the arch is covered in large boulders 18m below, all covered in an algal fuzz that is home to large numbers of wrasse, bream and spiny starfish.
Spain said in its court filing: “Analysis of location information from multiple sources confirms the location on the seabed from which Odyssey took coins and other artifacts is the site of Mercedes.” Spain claims all treasure from The Black Swan : Coin Collecting News
Over the stern the rudder rests folded towards the seabed at 30m, but the propeller was salvaged soon after the ship went down.
So the 10m ropes provide an ideal home where they can remain suspended above the seabed and out of reach of starfish, crabs, whelks and other predators.
It is easy to imagine the shape of the seabed by looking at the bedding planes of rock in the nearby cliffs.
In conducting coastal open air placer mining or shore-based well drilling to exploit seabed mineral resources, effective measures must be taken to prevent pollution to the marine environment.
As it swims over different areas of seabed, a cuttlefish can change colour almost instantly to match its surroundings, taking on a dark brown shade over kelp and turning almost white over sand.
Tunicates can overgrow sea scallops and mussels, and they may affect other species of clams and worms that live in the seabed below the tunicate colony.
Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
The seabed images were used by the Navy in deciding which areas of shoals and reef needed careful investigations using the ship's echosounder.
The EEZ gives coastal states "sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to" (above) "the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil ...". Energy profile of South China Sea
In bathymetric survey, the recorded seabed is distorted due to the beam - width of the echo sounder.
At the midships section the keel is suspended above the seabed and there is plenty of space to swim through.
The wreckage of the vessel was found last week on the seabed over 130 feet below the waves.
The system relies on seismographic sensors, which detect the seabed tremors and tiny changes in water pressure that warn of a tsunami, installed in a network of buoys across the Indian Ocean.
Called nanobes, they were found in rock samples drilled from 5km below the seabed off the Western Australia.
Russia is viewed as the most assertive of the Arctic powers, not only on transit routes but also on seabed resources. Times, Sunday Times
And in the unlikely event that you get bored with counting portholes, you can always go scalloping - the seabed is alive with them!
The Alcione C, a 54m Italian supply ship torpedoed by the Allies in 1943, stands upright on a 34m seabed.
Simon Power said, and I think it certainly reflected the views of his constituents from Feilding: ‘We must all be allowed full and free access to our beaches and lakefronts and to the seabed.’
The so-called seabed mining provisions were simply one manifestation of the problems Ronald Reagan had with LOST. Reagan and the Law of the Sea
Still attached, the 12 - pounder anti-aircraft gun rests on the seabed with its barrel nestling between a pair of bollards.
The researchers used an advanced sensor system on the IEO's ship, the Ramon Margalef, to perform the mapping of the seabed, a process known as bathymetry. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The race is on for each country to map the seabed to strengthen its claim. Times, Sunday Times
Sitting off to the side of the activity on the seabed is the "top hat," a 5-foot-tall containment dome that will only be used if the insertion tube fails, Suttles said. 2theadvocate.com Latest News
The entity has provided the amount of $10 million for the financial costs of the restoration of the seabed, which is the present value of such costs. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Standing 15 metres in height, the turbine support frame uses hydrofoils which use the down-thrust from tidal currents to hold the structure firmly on the seabed.
This due to the bill that sits deep in the seabed, making the anchor rotate around this.
I could just pick out enormous square shapes on the seabed below, seemingly arranged in a regular pattern.
I am not, but what the member's case does highlight is the danger of allowing more private ownership of the foreshore and seabed, as she is proposing, when her party started off proposing that it should be held in the commons.
Everything had hinted at a sophisticated attack on the Chunnel from the seabed. CORMORANT
Two blades of the propeller are buried in the shingle seabed, with the hub just clear.
The wreck of the vessel was located, 40 metres down on the seabed, later that morning.
In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and stingrays as they forage over shallow seabeds.
The Scottish Law Commission are still receiving responses to their discussion paper on the law relating to the foreshore and the seabed, which could see the scrapping of udal rights in Orkney - but the OIC have yet to make a response.
Eddie Bernard, director of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, says one possibility is that the earthquake might not have been confined to the main fault, with additional seabed shaking coming from a 'splay' fault. Scientific American
Everybody was given certainty about that, and there was no fuss or bother, so why did the Government not do the same with regard to the seabed issue?
We weren't going to disturb the seabed any more at that point but we brought it up.
If the rig could be damaged and its contents lost, a spokeswoman for the agency asked, could not DU shells be swept away or moved from the seabed too?
The seabed comprised steep rock formations normally associated with glaciated landscapes, except on this occasion it was the seafloor that had U-shaped valleys, arretes (wall of ice) and pingos (small conical hill of ice).
We will examine the issue of wave - seabedrubble mound vertical breakwater interaction through flume test.
The only signs of the burrowing molluscs are their water intake and outlet openings, just visible at the surface of a muddy seabed.
Descending the shotline the Brighton emerged at around 40m on a sand and shingle seabed at 48m.
When I dived the Borgny, an old trawl net was draped round the stern along the seabed.
Much of the island is an ancient limestone seabed that has been upthrusted by tectonic forces.
Experts said they had been washed ashore by exceptionally strong north-easterly winds which had churned up the seabed off north Norfolk.
The other divers seemed magnetically attached to the seabed at around 15m, but I was drawn to the roof of the temple, replete with splendid stands of gorgonian coral, groupers and a pufferfish.
Access to our beaches, our foreshore, and our seabed is a basic right for New Zealanders.
Also featured here are species which live at great depth, on sandy or muddy seabeds: rays, sole, crayfish and snipefish.
In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and stingrays as they forage over shallow seabeds.
The starkest fact highlighting the plight of fishing is that the amount of adult demersal fish - those living on the seabed - has fallen by 90 per cent since the early 1970s.
Investigators have scoured the Atlantic seabed with a robot submarine equipped with a camera trying to find traces of the lost jet for nearly two years. The Sun
The National Party agrees that the foreshore and seabed should be Crown land.
The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
Seabed sensors detect abnormal wave movements and relay the information to scientists.
Even after more than half a century on the seabed the shells 'contents -- mostly mustard gas and lewisite (both blister agents), as well as the nerve gas tabun -- may still be deadly. Roiling the Baltic Waters
Like the stern, the bow itself is upside-down, its line rising just off the vertical from the seabed with keel uppermost.
The government is stalling on the estuary while it tries to find a way through its foreshore and seabed dilemma.
The museum here is home to a famous statue, the Dancing Satyr, which was retrieved from the seabed by chance, in a fishing net.
The oysters, horse mussels and clams that used to carpet the seabed are gone. Times, Sunday Times
On the seabed, the ship looked massive, listing slightly to starboard and perfectly placed in a sand-chute which plunged over a wall.
My job is to follow clues left behind on the seabed of disasters that may have taken place hundreds of years ago.
Having said that, on the seabed to the port side of the bows lies a large iron pendant, perhaps the remains of an anchor with broken flukes.
The seabed here is made up of heavy granite pebbles and shingle, so the visibility is often very good.
The seabed generators consist of an array of massive propellers that are spun around as the tidal flow rushes past and drive a dynamo that produces energy.
The battle for control of the world 's seabed has intensified as technology makes oil and gas there more accessible, and soaring prices make exploration affordable. Times, Sunday Times
The source of the oil is unknown and is thought to have possibly sprung from an old wreck lying on the seabed which has rusted away.
What follows is a wealth of research about the Indian Ocean, where the deep seabed is covered by a translucent slime called globigerina ooze, which can be as much as one thousand feet thick.
The Foreshore and Seabed Act was passed in response to the Court of Appeal ruling in Attorney-General v Ngati Apa ([2003] 3 NZLR 643). BIG NEWS
Down the years we did hear from time to time that it was being planned to raise the wreck from the seabed and recover much valuable property.
There were shoals of blue-spine unicornfish, frogfish, lionfish, the buzzing bigeyes and the biggest pufferfish I had ever seen, content to lie on the coral rubble on the seabed.
The seabed is at 40m, but the upright wreck stands a good 12m proud.
The race is on for each country to map the seabed to strengthen its claim. Times, Sunday Times
I got to go freediving and catch some crabs from the seabed. The Sun
Experts said they had been washed ashore by exceptionally strong north-easterly winds which had churned up the seabed off north Norfolk.
She's in very good condition, in an upright position on the seabed.
The SNP retorted by demanding far higher borrowing rights, full control of taxes (including corporation tax), devolution of the Crown Estate (inshore seabed) and broadcasting. Let Scotland be a sovereign, mature nation and England benefits too | Neal Ascherson
Swimming forward of the bridge, the wreckage resembles that of the stern decks, except that the anchor machinery and forward masts have fallen to the seabed.
Maori customary title extinguished by the last Labour Government's contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act will be restored, under proposals just announced. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
It is a problem insomuch as this is the part of the bill that also makes it very clear to non-Maori New Zealanders that they have fewer rights to undertake activity on the foreshore and seabed of this country than Maori do.
Wave of death: Japan earthquake triggers 30ft high devastating tsunami One of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Japan killing hundreds Superquake created a huge movement in seabed that's like dropping a brick into a pond The origins of today's earthquake and tsunami lie in the heart of a region known as the Pacific Ring of Fire Met had 'cunning plan' for dealing with student protests Scotland Yard drew up what it called a 'cunning plan' to deal with one of the student protests, it was revealed Dangerous dogs 'trained to attack children' in London Britain's top vet has warned that there are more pit bulls in the capital than when the animals were banned under the 1991 Dangerous Dogs... Evening Standard - Home
At the stern a large deckhouse containing cabins has collapsed, the steel roof now resting between the stern deck and the seabed.
The flukes will be buried into the seabed. The very tip of a fluke is sometimes called the bill.
A little further aft, pintles and ammunition for machine guns and rapid-firing anti-aircraft guns lie on the seabed, with a gun and its armoured shield among the debris.
But tethering the snakes to the seabed is a major challenge. BBC News | Technology | World Edition
`But with the liner no longer there to support the roof, I'd expect that the whole seabed would cave in. CORMORANT
The object and purpose of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill were set out clearly in clause 2A and clause 3.
Just to get them on the feed and advertise your presence, it's also worth chopping up a few small cubes of mackerel or other fish bait now and then and letting these free fall to the seabed.
In order to understand the power and unpredictably of our planet we need to ponder in awe that large and high mountains contain fossils from seabed origin, and many dry areas contain tillite, (ice driven rocks), in order to fully comprehend how climates, earth forms and life forms change and alter. Mail & Guardian Online
In the Gulf of Mexico, trawlers ply back and forth year in year out, hauling vast nets that scarify the seabed and allow no time for plant and animal life to recover.
The method destroys or disturbs delicate, slow-growing seabed communities.
Territorial claims outside that are up for grabs, provided a country can show that its continental shelf extends farther along the seabed. Times, Sunday Times
Down near the seabed is the blowout preventer, or BOP. Army Rumour Service
His observations revealed that the two creatures were in fact one and the same: the adult develops inside the swimming larva, whose body is cast away when the adult takes up residence on the seabed.
The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays, large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters.
It is in waters that can be very hostile and is 3,000m below the seabed which, itself, is at a depth of 350 metres making recovery of the gas a difficult and expensive task.
Underwater images of the seabed surrounding the Hawaiian Islands show that they are surrounded by huge aprons of debris shed from their volcanoes over tens of millions of years.
Ministers have made it clear that such issues are separate from the seabed and foreshore legislation.
With this bill it ignores a court decision, yet on the seabed and foreshore issue it heralds a court decision.
The region is a conduit for more than one-third of the world's seaborne trade and half its traffic in oil and gas, and major petroleum deposits are believed to lie below the seabed.
In these circumstances the demand for Maori tribes or iwi to be given control over such an important resource as the foreshore and seabed can only be progressive if it matched with a demand for the overthrow of capitalism.
We watched a yellow margined triggerfish as it scoured the seabed below.
The clean seabed here aids visibility and light reflection across the site.
Fish the two-hook rig on the seabed but lift the rod repeatedly to make the lures and bait work like swimming fish.
The implication was that they had detected the aircraft 's fuselage hitting the seabed. Times, Sunday Times
What lies beneath the seabed is a little more complicated. TradingMarkets
The sea represents the island's major richness: colours, transparency, seabeds teeming with fish, madrepores and sea-sponges.
One crew-diver controlled its height using a line that passed through a pulley fixed to the seabed and another at the vessel's stern.
He said an attempt would be made to raise the submarine from the seabed and that financial assistance will be offered to the families of the dead.
It usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes to get one of these big flatties to give in and move off the seabed.
The race is on for each country to map the seabed to strengthen its claim. Times, Sunday Times
Salvors plan to install a rig on to the seabed next to the vessel to speed up the clearance process.
The foremast had broken and sloped down to the seabed, but the funnel still stood and the wooden planking of the stern deck was intact and clean.
The seabed suddenly dropped away and I was waist deep in the water.
A glance over the port rail revealed a steamroller lying on the seabed at 70m.
Under the terms of the treaty, Jakarta allocated Canberra much of the seabed wealth in return for formal recognition of Indonesia's military takeover of East Timor in 1975.
Although not related to Prof Ryskin's "Methane Driven Oceanic Eruption", the clathrate gun hypothesis works on the basis that rises in sea temperatures can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in seabeds and permafrost. DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
At 10m the reef of boulders and rock gave way to a soft silt seabed covered in large patches of eelgrass.
Many of the Northwest Islands are joined together by tunnels carved through the solid rock of the seabed, the still unconnected islands are accessed by car ferries.
BARBELS Sensitive barbels allow the sturgeon to identify food on the river floor or seabed as it hunts. A Field Guide to White Sturgeon
Soon afterwards, at a hui at Paeroa, Maori declared that ‘the foreshore and seabed belong to the hapu and iwi’.
In 2009 the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology announced plans to send robotic submarines to study areas near seabed volcanoes, where so-called hydrothermal vents belch out minerals. News24 Top Stories
As we dropped off the tip of the bow to seabed level and swam along the wreck, we could see numerous portholes, all with heavy-duty deadlights securely fixed shut.
Beneath the bow, the seabed is again deepened by a tidal scour to 46m.
Staying on the seabed at this side of the wreck, you can see a small pile of chain, then two small gun pintles fallen on their sides before a larger gun platform and pintle, again resting on its side perpendicular to the wreck.
Scallop, oyster and crab dredges consist of steel frames and chain-mesh bags that plow through the seabed to sift out target species.
Some 660 tons of residual oil remain in the depressurized pipe, which has been secured on the seabed with concrete mats. Shell Stops Oil Leak in North Sea Pipeline
The gas would be pressurised and liquefied, allowing it to be piped using existing oil and gas pipelines for secure storage beneath the seabed. Times, Sunday Times
Skipper Dave dryly remarks that he isn't so sure about this one, as it lies on a flat sandy seabed close to a small reef and he doesn't have it buoyed.
To defend the region's well-preserved wrecks from shipworms, researchers have suggested draping submerged vessels in polypropylene covers or covering ships with seabed sediments and sandbags.
It plans to scour the seabed for minerals rather than digging mines on land. Times, Sunday Times
Extraordinarily, the songs were picked up by an array of US naval spy stations installed on the seabed off the north and west coasts of Britain and Ireland during the cold war.
The barge, moored off Langney Point after being towed from Norway, rode out the storm, but turned turtle in the comparative quiet of the next day, dropping all that granite to the seabed.
Near the seabed, an interesting feature is a large power capstan.
The gang spent several hours using quad bikes to speed along the seabed at low water as the rest filled hundreds of sacks of the winkles to load into waiting vans.
The deck here used to be intact but now it has peeled off and fallen to the seabed, leaving a tangle of debris from below the deck and exposed ribs poking up from the hull.
THIS business supplies oil and gas companies with equipment and services to link the seabed to the surface. Times, Sunday Times
Other cabins and superstructure have long since rotted and crumpled to the seabed.
In the process it swung in the tide and broke its back as it settled across its own previous scour in the seabed.
But a subsequent ministry study found arsenic levels in the seabed were 100 times higher at the dumping site than in other parts of the bay.
Only recently have oceanographers been able to map the seabed in something near the detail possible on land.
It details every stage in the painstaking process of lifting a damaged, nuclear-armed submarine off the seabed in one of the most unwelcoming stretches of water in the world.
Much of that is the result of overfishing but the destruction of seabed habitats by trawl nets is also to blame. Times, Sunday Times
Autosub will be using sonars to study the seabed.
What forces could possibly have raised the seabed to these heights?
The seabed suddenly dropped away and I was waist deep in the water.
We will examine the issue of wave - seabedrubble mound vertical breakwater interaction through flume test.
At Zephyros, in 30m of water, the flukes of a sizeable anchor are visible, the chain running along the base of a cliff which rises spectacularly some 10m off the seabed.
It’s a thriller-disaster novel and the destabilization of the methane in the arctic seabed is a major plot point. Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing
Seabed trawling destroys the structure and devastates the communities on the seabed, many of which take a long time to recover.
No word yet on whether these seabed dwellers also have an unsatiable desire for living flesh. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Zombie watch: seafloor microbes
Unlike the stern, the seabed at the bow is at 34m, with virtually no scour.
Living largely off tinned vegetables and any sea trout they could catch, the team dived down to the seabed and squeezed airbags beneath the Maud. Times, Sunday Times
There is also an undersea walk, which you do without an aqualung, by wearing a heavy glass and metal contraption like a Dickensian carriage lamp over your head, which makes you sink to the seabed.
Further forward, the wreck is flat to the seabed, just a few curved plates rising above the sand, some with flanges and valves projecting.
The implication was that they had detected the aircraft's fuselage hitting the seabed. Times, Sunday Times
Caught by bottom-trawling, which causes damage to the seabed, and is part of a complex mixed fishery (like cod), and so discards are a problem.
At the top is the steering quadrant, while at the bottom the rudder lies flat against the seabed.
The agonistic approach can create an atmosphere of defensiveness and fear - we saw it here over the foreshore and seabed debate.
I got to go freediving and catch some crabs from the seabed. The Sun
Sponges grow from the seabed like the turrets of a castle.
Another problem with trawling for deep-sea fish is the damage that is done to the uncharted seabed.
Last year a team of 20 divers scoured the seabed for shells, bombs and mortars up to ten metres deep; items were either brought up for disposal or blown up in situ if they looked unstable.
As this edition of Navy News was going to press a number of pontoons and moorings were being secured to the seabed around the warship.
The oysters, horse mussels and clams that used to carpet the seabed are gone. Times, Sunday Times
The gun pintle stands securely in the centre of the platform but there is no sign of the gun, either on the platform or on the seabed below.
Guinness Book of Records; nope, remember now - phony, had a scuba tank stashed on the seabed. CORMORANT
Finally, a ‘Sea-bed Disputes Chamber’ of the Law of the Sea Tribunal has competence over disputes concerning seabed operations and the ISBA.
Being too hot on the seabed was a novel experience; so also was the mirage-like vision caused by the ascending water, which made my searchlights dance and tremble over the rock face I was exploring. The Wind from The Sun
Mulberry Harbour was towed from England and erected on the floor of the seabed after the beachheads had been secured. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Shrinking sea ice is significantly increasing the rate at which icebergs scour the Antarctic seabed, taking away large swathes of marine organisms in the process.
It had been dropping one of eight anchors which typically secure rigs to the seabed to stop them drifting. The Sun
The seabed is explicitly called the common heritage of humankind and cannot be claimed by any one country.
The wreck lay intact on its port side, its masts and crane jibs spreading themselves across the sand and gravel seabed.
If the cable is severed then the submersibles are designed to sink to the seabed before the ballast in their tanks is jettisoned so that they rise to the surface.
Dropping down to the seabed, the smaller barbettes and guns could be seen, and huge 13.5in projectiles lay scattered on the sand.
Endurance subsequently completed a detailed investigation, which revealed that the seabed shoaled without warning and incredibly steeply from more than 40 metres to 6.4 metres in eight seconds.
Scuttling teams hope she will settle upright, as have sister ships Perth in Western Australia and Hobart off South Australia, on the sandy seabed.
Similar uncertainties apply to rights of navigation by warships and merchant vessels as well as access to the seabed. The Times Literary Supplement
Large searchlights that had festooned the foremast lay collapsed beneath it on the seabed and her main fore guns were still trained menacingly to port.
The north and south moles connect to the shore and the seabed ascends from 30m to nothing along the length of them.
Since then, the wreck must have been salvaged, because the deck and sides of the hull have collapsed and most of it is only a metre or two above the seabed.
Relief wells being drilled miles beneath the seabed will be the only means of permanently sealing and isolating the damaged well. Home | Mail Online
Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
Much of that is the result of overfishing but the destruction of seabed habitats by trawl nets is also to blame. Times, Sunday Times
Below us the seabed was strewn with small boulders and overgrown with beds of brown kelp.
The race is on for each country to map the seabed to strengthen its claim. Times, Sunday Times
Studies off northwest Africa found they favor areas where the seabed slopes steeply, creating strong currents and upwellings, which tend to support higher prey densities.
National's long-awaited prescription for healing that weeping political sore otherwise known as the foreshore and seabed should be grabbed with both hands by the Maori Party. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
Scientists are currently investigating life on the seabed across the whole Marine Park as part of the Great Barrier Reef Seabed Biodiversity Project.
Nearby stood the remains of her two-cylinder steam engine and brass condenser - lengths of copper pipe, bronze valves, hollow masts and cogwheels littering the seabed.
It was possible to swim alongside the side of the wreck and look down towards the seabed.

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