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...especially fond of the organisms that live inside undersea tube worms, existing on sulphur filtering out of deep-sea thermal vents...
...that depth, the water temperature dropped to 50 degrees, and pressure crunched face masks painfully against foreheads and chins. Visibility was limited to a few feet, but the visions were nightmarish. Scattered shards of the doomed airliner sprouted myriad electric wires and cords waving medusa-like in the undersea currents. Some of the bodies, when discovered, swayed gently to the same tidal rhythms...
...Angeles and Las Vegas they flock to Country Star for barbecued twang and to Dive!--the submarine creation of Dreamworks' filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg--for simulated undersea adventures. Dive! has also surfaced on the Barcelona waterfront. The Harley Davidson Cafe is hog heaven for the customer who climbs into the saddle of a Low Rider against a make-believe open road while a video camera records the moment of sublime fantasy. And if spooky things grab you, Jekyll and Hyde, a house of horrors, is the place to thrill...
...FACTORS-VARIATIONS IN ocean temperatures and in high-altitude prevailing winds-are also involved. Nobody can say with any certainty why these me teorological influences come and go as they do. Gray favors a mechanism known as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, a vast, and so far poorly understood, undersea current that carries warm water from the Pacific and Indian oceans into the Atlantic. When the conveyor belt runs faster for unknown reasons, there is more warm water available to generate both rain in the Sahel and storms over the North Atlantic. Or so the reasoning goes...
...most innovative new designs in underwater craft are coming from such private companies as Deep Ocean Engineering. Founded by marine biologist Earle and British engineer Graham Hawkes in 1981 (they married in 1986 but have since divorced), the firm designs and builds undersea-exploration vehicles on commission, mostly for the oil and gas industry, various navies, universities and even film crews. The two Deep Flight I vehicles, which Hawkes began with the company but completed independently, were financed by several film and television firms and Scientific Search Project, a marine-archaeology company...