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The changes a deepwater port could bring The Army Corps of Engineers this month issued a $400 million contract to begin the first phase of the port project, which will ultimately include dredging sediment from the ocean so bigger ships can dock.
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Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Flores is east of Lombok and thus east of the Wallace line, so that the ancestor to The Hobbit had to cross the deepwater channel.
—Madeleine Beekman
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
That kind of reaction is impossible for, say, a deepwater offshore platform that keeps producing no matter what because the cost of shutting it down is enormous.
—Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2015
Robotic underwater vehicles play an important role in marine research, environmental operations, deepwater exploration, and search-and-rescue missions.
—Jason Falconer, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2013
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Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Flores is east of Lombok and thus east of the Wallace line, so that the ancestor to The Hobbit had to cross the deepwater channel.
—Madeleine Beekman
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
That kind of reaction is impossible for, say, a deepwater offshore platform that keeps producing no matter what because the cost of shutting it down is enormous.
—Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2015
Robotic underwater vehicles play an important role in marine research, environmental operations, deepwater exploration, and search-and-rescue missions.
—Jason Falconer, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2013
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The implosion of the Titan killed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and led to lawsuits and calls for tighter regulation of private deep-sea expeditions.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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This is the first time such a relationship has been recorded in the genus Laevidentalium, offering new insights into how deep-sea organisms coexist in extreme environments.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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Sea star wasting disease is a rare example of a fast and coordinated response to a marine epidemic.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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Authorities add that polluted water, marine debris, and unstable cliffs may also pose hazards, according to a webpage from the National Park Service (NPS).—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Deepwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deepwater. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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