Quotes About Seabed

The U.S. War Department had even pondered tunneling beneath the seabed: a detailed study deemed the project "feasible," requiring one year and 15,000 men to excavate 55,000 tons of spoil. Wiser heads questioned "the strategic and functional" complexities, such as the inconvenience of the entire German Seventh Army waiting for the first tunneler to emerge. The study was shelved.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.

The major market for LNG in Britain and in Europe largely evaporated with the discovery of the huge Groningen natural gas field in the Netherlands and then additional gas in North Africa and in the seabed off the east coast of Britain.