In its preamble, UNCLOS defines the international seabed area — the part under ISA jurisdiction — as “ the seabed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction ”.

The seabed adjacent to Bahrain is rocky and, mainly off the northern part of the island, covered by extensive coral reefs.

The seabed adjacent to Bahrain is rocky and, mainly off the northern part of the island, covered by extensive coral reefs.

What is now Lafayette was part of the seabed during the earlier Quaternary Period.

The island's oldest geological formation, Gunung Matchincang, was the first part of South-East Asia to rise from the seabed in the Cambrian period more than half a billion years ago.

Ship grounding is a type of marine accident that involves the impact of a ship on the seabed, resulting in damage of the submerged part of her hull and in particularly the bottom structure, potentially leading to water ingress and compromise of the ship's structural integrity and stability.

The seabed under the Celtic Sea is called the Celtic Shelf, part of the continental shelf of Europe.

The foreshore and seabed issue, as part of the larger race relations debate, was one of the most significant points of contention in New Zealand politics at the time, and remains a significant issue for many people.

The foreshore and seabed controversy, a debate about whether Māori have legitimate claim to ownership of part or all of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed, became the catalyst for setting up the Māori Party.

States also have rights to the seabed of what is called the continental shelf up to 350 nautical miles ( 648 km ) from the coastal baseline, beyond the EEZ, but such areas are not part of their EEZ.

Extreme natural conditions at the site ( subzero temperatures part of the year, stormy seas, strong underwater currents, uneven seabed ) put great demands on the technology used in the project.

The tompot blenny, Parablennius gattorugine, is a medium sized blenny growing to about, part of the large family of blennies that live on the seabed of rocky areas in shallow water ( down to ).

The Persian Gulf averages about 35 metres in depth with the seabed between Abu Dhabi and Qatar even shallower, for the most part less than 15 metres deep.

It will run through segments of reclaimed land as well as a 420m section that runs below the seabed of Marina Bay.

Jiaozhou Bay is a natural inlet of the sea, with 10 to 15 meters depth to the seabed and deeper, dredged channels to three major ports around the bay, Qingdao, Huangdao and Hongdao, all ice-free during winter.

* The Cook Strait submarine cables would have to be specially designed for the seabed and tidal conditions, and require special armouring at the Oteranga Bay end, of a kind that had not been used before

In 1958, BICC laid two 0. 8 km trial lengths of cable off Oteranga Bay in Cook Strait to demonstrate their ability to resist the abrasion, bending and vibration caused by conditions on the seabed.

The arc marks an active convergent boundary between the East Eurasian plates that underlie Indonesia, especially the Sunda Plate and the Burma Plate, with the India and Australian Plates that form the seabed of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.

The mine's workings extended beneath the seabed of Conception Bay, creating one of the most extensive submarine iron mines in the world.

Sandside Bay in August 2006One of the main environmental issues caused by the Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment are radioactive nuclear fuel particles that have been released from the site into the sea, and are now on the seabed near the plant and in Sandside Bay.

The area of Poole Bay was predominantly created during the Pleistocene period, when the Solent river ran across the whole of South East Dorset and West Hampshire, out past the Isle of Wight The solid geology of the cliffs, and the seabed beneath Poole Bay, is composed of rocks of the Tertiary Bracklesham Group, consisting of a sequence of fine, medium and coarse sands.

A sea anchor is a drogue, not in contact with the seabed, used to control a drifting vessel.

Since all anchors that embed themselves in the bottom require the strain to be along the seabed, anchors can be broken out of the bottom by shortening the rode until the vessel is directly above the anchor ( at this point the anchor chain is " up and down " in naval parlance ).

The mushroom anchor is suitable where the seabed is composed of silt or fine sand.

Its holding power is defined by its weight underwater ( i. e. taking its buoyancy into account ) regardless of the type of seabed, although suction can increase this if it becomes buried.

The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

If the weight is suspended off the seabed it acts as a spring or shock absorber to dampen the sudden actions that are normally transmitted to the anchor and can cause it to dislodge and drag.

Much of modern Finland is former seabed or archipelago: illustrated are sea levels immediately after the last ice age.

In the area, the former seabed is only gently sloped, leading to large areas of land being reclaimed in, geologically speaking, relatively short periods ( decades and centuries ).

Murray was one of the expedition, a San Francisco based marine technology company established in 1992, that is developing a vehicle, Deepsearch ( and Ocean Explorer HOV Unlimited ), with some support from Google's Eric Schmidt with which a crew of two or three will take 90 minutes to reach the seabed, as the program Deep Search.

When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami.

A tension leg mooring system for a wind turbine: left-hand tower-bearing structure ( grey ) is free floating, the right-hand structure is pulled by the tensioned cables ( red ) down towards the seabed anchors ( light-grey )

The International Seabed Authority ( ISA ) (, ) is an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most of the world ’ s oceans.

National jurisdiction over the seabed normally leaves off at seaward from baselines running along the shore, unless a nation can demonstrate that its continental shelf is naturally prolonged beyond that limit, in which case it may claim up to.

In places the effect of glaciation on the seabed is pronounced.

No seabed boundary with Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea has been agreed upon and the usage of Caspian Sea water is a matter that remains unsettled by international agreement.

The surrounding elevated seabed is called the Rockall Bank, lying directly south from an area known as the Rockall Plateau.

Tusks were once thought to be used to dig out prey from the seabed, but analyses of abrasion patterns on the tusks indicate they are dragged through the sediment while the upper edge of the snout is used for digging.

Siderno, also known as the " pearl " of the " Jasmine Riviera ", is one of the most well-equipped tourist resorts on the Ionian coast of the Province of Reggio Calabria, with wide, sandy beaches, clear sea and a magnificently-coloured seabed.

The side of the body without the eyes, which faces the seabed, is usually colourless or very pale.

Running in a rough north-south line on the seabed of the Andaman Sea is the boundary between two tectonic plates, the Burma plate and the Sunda Plate.

It may be used to conduct surveys for maritime archaeology ; in conjunction with seafloor samples it is able to provide an understanding of the differences in material and texture type of the seabed.