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
In this instance, the obstruction is a 100km-wide bump on the ocean bottom known as Pirie Bank.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024
They concluded the materials recovered from the ocean bottom were tiny, ordinary meteorites -- or particles produced from other meteorites hitting Earth's surface mixed with terrestrial contamination.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 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
