seabed

Example Sentences

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The costs and environmental damage of ripping up the seabed are expected to be high.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each has retractable legs that thrust down into the seabed to hold the ships in position.

From The Wall Street Journal

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say.

From BBC

The warships will monitor Russian naval movements in the waters between Greenland, Iceland and the UK, defending seabed cables and pipelines critical to British communications, electricity and gas networks.

From BBC

Finnish investigators would later suggest the Cook Islands-flagged vessel -- allegedly part of Russia's shadow fleet -- had sabotaged the cables by dragging its anchor across the seabed.

From Barron's