...NO ANIMALS WERE USED IN THIS RESEARCH

ScienceDaily (May 27, 2010) —" A team of researchers at the University of Miami (UM) has developed a computer model for finding and projecting in time sunken oil masses on the bottom of bays, after an oil spill. The unique model can be used in oil spill planning, response, and recovery applications."  To read about it, click here.

The future of robots: another article that defines how robots are to underwater what the MRI is to the body in today's medicine.  See and read more about it here.

Undersea hurricane forces may threaten undersea pipelines in the Mexican Gulf.  Just as though our environment isn't threatened enough, there are always new threats, it seems. This article write:  "These pipelines could crack or rupture unless they are buried or their supporting foundations are built to withstand these hurricane-induced currents. "Major oil leaks from damaged pipelines could have irreversible impacts on the ocean environment," the researchers warn in their study, to be published on 10 June in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)."

We are beginning to realize the oceans have a world of information we have yet to tame or understand.