A trek across the desert to what was billed as the Pompeii of the Red Sea yielded nothing but a few bumps in the sand — which was, in a way, a good thing since no one had remembered to pack any shovels, leaving the major excavation to be performed by a little boy with a seashell.
The school's motto is "The sea yields to knowledge," and the fight song is "Semper Paratus".
In contrast to the analysis of pairwise comparisons, comparison of these gene sets with the set of all expressed genes by SEA yielded many overrepresented cellular component categories.
At what point will warming seas yield up their vast stores of methane hydrates, dumping massive quantities of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
But potentially rich fields in Turkmenistan's sector of the Caspian Sea could yield reserves to be shipped westward through an undersea pipeline to Turkey.
For the more intrepid traveller, a brief sojourn across the crystalline narrow sea will yield lands of rolling deserts, bountiful cities and an intoxicating mixture of temperate climates, enchanting mysticism and lenient approaches to horse consumption and the ownership of wealth, dragons and people.
Another artist, Mercer Field, agrees that the sea seldom yields anything spectacular.
Offshore exploration in the East China Sea has yielded both petroleum and natural-gas finds.
Last year, for example, the fishery for sea-cucumbers (soft-bodied creatures related to sea urchins) yielded a catch worth $3.4m.
Seared sea scallops yielded easily to the fork, though the mushroom-asparagus risotto was more like a casserole.
But for all of its hostility to understanding, the sea has yielded something that space has yet to: aliens.
