Many lost their lives along the heavily fortified "death strip", which contained anti-vehicle trenches, barbed wire and beds of nails under blinding floodlights.
"In and around abandoned vehicles, trenches, burnt-out houses, bushland and, as with Nelson and his friends, river beds.
The oil industry has also developed remotely-operated vehicles to make trenches for seabed pipelines, which can be adapted for cutting ore, even though it may lie much deeper, at, say, 1.5km down.
For example, its lighting and camera systems will be used on one of WHOI's existing vehicles to explore trenches in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the next two years, according to the release.
The only way this could be overcome is by the use of a 4x4 cross-country vehicle that could withstand trenches and holes in the roads or scheduling work during dry periods when the road network was motorable.
The subsea survey results using remote operating vehicles (ROV) show that trenches with a depth of several riser diameters can be developed underneath the steel catenary risers (SCR).
Field trials of the Nereus hybrid underwater robotic vehicle in the challenger deep of the Mariana Trench.
The centre will feature 1km (0.6m) of trenches and replica vehicles on land at Dry Drayton but is also linked to the expansion of a garden centre.
All of these - levelling, introduction of foreign materials and contamination - are potentially destructive of archaeological remains, as are the many cuttings and trenches detailed, the heavy vehicle wheel ruts, the earthmoving and the fuel seepages.
The engineers drove to end of the trench in a combat vehicle that unfolded a giant metal bridge.
By Jon Michaud March 8 , 2012In today's Times, William J. Broad writes about James Cameron's plans to descend nearly seven miles into the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench in a torpedo-like vehicle called the Deepsea Challenger.
