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06-10-06, 14:33
A fleet of 100 robotic submarines could in five years' time be roaming the vast unexplored stretches of the world's seafloors and helping unlock their mysteries.The plan was unveiled by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration at the Oceans 2006 conference in Boston last week. "The pace of exploration in the ocean is going a little too slowly," says Reginald Beach of NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration in Silver Spring, Maryland. Only 5 per cent of the ocean floor has been explored in detail, he says, which means there may be numerous new species and geothermal processes waiting to be discovered.
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