In reaching Challenger Deep, Mr. Cameron has fulfilled a quest that has consumed the imagination of deep-sea engineers for almost a century.
But, Mr. Wells said, if the monitoring detects oil or gas coming up through the sea floor, engineers could reopen the well immediately.
In a tie-back, the valves that open and close the well are located not on the rig, but on the sea floor; engineers operate them by remote control.
Expectations for tidal and wave power were high but have not delivered.By contrast, it has been relatively simple to take the established technology of onshore wind farms out to sea, where engineers face few aesthetic or environmental restraints on the size of the individual turbines.
Thinking she would turn back out to sea, the engineer soon saw that she had instead begun backing up, guns still firing.
The Oxford MBA graduate teamed up with electronic engineer Sea Zheng, industrial designer Boge Chen, production engineer Tom Zhao and logistic expert Scott Moore, and spent a year developing Muku Shuttr.
In the transportation field generally, in air and space as well as on land and sea, the mechanical engineer has created the equipment and the power plant, collaborating increasingly with the electrical engineer, especially in the development of suitable control systems.
The continuous and immediate presence of the sea provides the engineer with an adversary certain to discover any weakness in the structure built to resist it.
After a plane crash at sea, a Federal Express engineer survives on a remote island for four years in complete isolation.
In this, SEA has been engineered for reduced MHC class II binding giving it a much improved safety profile compared to fusions with wild-type SEA (Alpaugh et al, 1998a; Brodin et al, 1998; Forsberg et al, 2001; Cheng et al, 2004).
In this context, telepresence facilitated interdisciplinary research between specialists at the ISC and scientists and engineers at sea, enabling researchers to transfer data and maximize research efforts with sampling tools at sea.
