(1) Ships towing huge magnets trolled the ocean floor.

(2) The submarine bottomed to observe the ocean floor.

(3) Hess then proceeded to describe the ocean floor as if it were a collection of giant conveyor belts.

(4) Few creatures inhabit the ocean floor, where there is no light to sustain them.

(5) And always to areas where the ocean floor dropped dramatically; great fissures in the rocky crust.

(6) Here, perhaps, all the ocean floor material has been carried up into the mountains.

(7) In the abyssal murk of the deep ocean floor, miles below the surface, no light penetrates.

(8) The ocean floor was the tape slowly and symmetrically drifting away from either side of the ridge.

(9) Looking down through my mask at the ocean floor, I saw an old motorcycle, probably from the fifties.

(10) Amid the barren ocean floor swarmed legions of bizarre, new animals.

(11) It surpasses even the natural abysses of the ocean floor.

(12) The boat settled down on the ocean floor.

(13) It a vent a crack in the ocean floor.

(14) The damaged ship leaned over and slowly settled down on the ocean floor.

(15) Sea lions have been found with their sensitive muzzles cut from playing with tin cans that have fallen to the ocean floor.

(16) These are rocket-shaped projectiles loaded with vitrified waste, and dumped from ships to plunge into soft sediments on the ocean floor.

(17) On the Glomar Challenger, and back on shore, Hall met others who shared his enthusiasm for the ocean floor.

(18) These of course raise little or no dust unless the impactor reaches the ocean floor before detonating.

(19) They're still attempting to recover the plane's wreckage from the ocean floor.

(20) He assured Field that it was possible to lay a cable on the ocean floor.

(21) The giant bivalves jammed the cracks between the black tufts of lava that covered the ocean floor.

(22) Drillers would plunge through a record depth of water to pierce farther into the ocean floor than anyone had gone before.

(23) This took the form of an unusual series of stripes, discovered as ships towing magnetometers trolled above the ocean floor.

(24) Small sea organisms bind these marine minerals into their body structures, which then fall to the ocean floor upon their death.

(25) Tall mineral chimneys like underworld organ pipes soared thirty feet above the ocean floor.

(26) While nodules are loose deposits, lying on the sea bed, sulphides are massive deposits below the ocean floor.

(27) They continued to pursue their own explanations for the mysterious mountains on the ocean floor.

(28) Hard to get, that is, if you lived on the ocean floor and had been locked in a safe.

(29) If this impact had occurred in deep water its traces on the ocean floor might be extremely hard to recognize.

(30) About 100 tons of contaminated sediments still lie on the ocean floor.

(1) Ships towing huge magnets trolled the ocean floor.

(31) The submarine bottomed on the ocean floor.

(32) They spend hours feeding on the ocean floor.

(33) The nodules collector is an intelligent machine that can pick up the multiple-metal nodules on deep ocean floor with complicated and adverse circumstances.

(34) The damaged ship leaned and slowly settled down on the ocean floor.

(35) In the physical, crabs and lobsters are bottom-feeding kingdoms that assist in the transmutation of decay upon the ocean floor.

(36) Wegener also noted differences between the continents and the ocean floor.

(37) IN THE 1960 s and 1970 s, the idea of mining the ocean floor was all the rage.

(38) Rising molten rock flows out on the ocean floor and caps the fissures, trapping the water.

(39) Efforts will now focus on severing the damaged riser pipes that lay crumpled on the ocean floor, then installing a containment device that could capture the leaking oil and syphon it to the surface.

(40) A sea star with vibrant purple coloring rests an ocean floor.

(41) Soon afterwards, the bathyscaphe touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of 'dust' made up of small, dead sea - creatures.

(42) Valuable amounts of minerals such as iron, copper and so on exist on the ocean floor.

(43) A lizardfish captures a meal on the sandy ocean floor of temperate Suruga Bay.

(44) Hellcat fighter planes sit on the ocean floor, their machine guns silenced forever. Where once they were strafed by Japanese Zeros, now they are circled by sharks.

(45) Mister Wegener said the lighter continental rock floated up through the heavier basalt rock of the ocean floor.

(46) The cheapest way to explore the ocean floor, however, may be with the free-floating AUVs.

(47) Tomtate grunts and yellowtail snapper swim through Neptune Memorial Reef,(http:///ocean floor.html) an underwater cemetery with decorative arches and columns installed on the ocean floor off Miami Beach.

(48) Amphioxus body by the rapid movement and drilling holes in the ocean floor.

(49) One of the most interesting projects in oceanography is the work of mapping the ocean floor.

(50) Underwater photography is also important in mapping parts of the ocean floor.

(51) His case is simple: With no power-sucking life-support systems, ROVs offer more time on the ocean floor—and therefore, more opportunity to explore what we don't know—than manned subs.

(52) Scientists are fairly certain about the effects of hot spots beneath the ocean floor.

(53) Amphioxus Although able to swim, but most of the time the body will be buried in the ocean floor in the gravel or mud.

(54) About 235 miles ( 378 kilometers ) east of Halifax, the ocean floor drops away.

(55) It is anchored to the ocean floor by a root-like structure called a holdfast.

(56) Located in Minnesota's Mall of America, Underwater Adventures offers visitors a virtual tour the ocean floor.

(57) They differ somewhat from bathymetric charts which are virtually topographic maps of the ocean floor.

(58) The US government has ordered BP to submit a plan for reopening its capped well in the Gulf of Mexico amid concerns that oil may be seeping from the ocean floor near the well.

(59) If it is present, it could seep into the crust and escape through the ocean floor.

(60) The next Pangea, "Pangea Ultima" will form as a result of the subduction of the ocean floor of the North and South Atlantic beneath eastern North America and South America.

(61) Recent ocean floor data confirm the first part of this slow process.

(62) Related to shrimp and crabs, the giant isopod is a deep-sea crustacean that makes its home on the ocean floor.

(63) John Krayeski of West Palm Beach told the Palm Beach Post he likes to leave the ocean floor tidier than he found it, so he picked up the card he saw in the sand.

(64) Under the sudden impact, Zin - Azshari and the Well were blasted downward toward the ocean floor.

(65) Seamounts, underwater volcanoes, Rift Valley, the mid - ocean ridge, constitute a rich world of the ocean floor.