Sentence examples for undersea currents from inspiring English sources

An aerial view of the Bazaruto Archipelago showing undersea currents, the oceanic equivalent of sandstorms.

Ksenia Ovsyanick is a notable presence, her svelte frame and tendril arms rippling as if impelled by undersea currents, but the work is too long, and never quite engages us.

Among other things, he said Russian officials had said, wrongly, that undersea currents had been too strong for rescue work, that the escape hatch had been too severely damaged to allow a rescue minisubmarine to attach to it, and that the Kursk's hull was cracked.

Gravity measurements can be used to track the movement and changing density of ice at the poles, the transport of huge volumes of water in deep undersea currents, the movement of water in and out of underground aquifers and even the slow shift of magma in volcanically active regions, Dr. Watkins said.

Powerful undersea currents, tall waves and worsening weather have further delayed the search for the data and cockpit recorders of a Hong Kong-bound China Airlines Boeing 747 from Taipei that broke apart at 30,000 feet on May 25 and plunged into the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 aboard.

Few American or European scientists had ever made it above 80 degrees north latitude, but Hayes believed, like other explorers, that an "open polar sea" blanketed the very top of the world: a navigable ocean, kept ice-free by a mixture of warm Gulf Stream waters, strong undersea currents and prevailing surface winds.

A new generation of sensors could be adapted to a variety of platforms including coastal moorings, current drifters, undersea Internet cables, oilrigs, and ships.

Current unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) are almost exclusively propeller driven designs, which must inherently be optimized for a particular speed, sacrificing low speed manoeuvrability for cruising efficiency.

KM3NeT is an undersea neutrino detector currently under design.

But there are ocean currents, rocks, and undersea mountains, which may cause multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagations and will dramatically degrade the performance of the localization method for LOS conditions.

The second technology wave energy conversion extracts energy from ocean waves, while the third one, called ocean current (it is also called ocean stream and tidal stream) conversion, uses devices that operate like undersea wind turbines extracting energy from moving currents of water.