ocean bottom

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He once dredged up 17 rings in a single day by sweeping the ocean bottom in a spot where tourists, well into their tequila sunrises, routinely launch themselves off catamarans, their fingers slick with sunscreen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

A23a's behaviour can be explained because the ocean bottom just north of South Orkney is reasonably well surveyed.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

The report, published in the science journal Estuaries and Coasts, details the characteristics of a population of healthy-size surfclams of different ages living just under the surface of the sandy ocean bottom.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

A study in the scientific journal Nature in August found marine heat waves “are not a dominant driver of change” in some species that live near the ocean bottom.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

However, the rocky coasts of Easter, Pitcairn, and the Marquesas, and the steeply dropping ocean bottom and absence of coral reefs around those islands, are much less productive of seafood.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond