deep water
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What’s left is in deep water: expensive, technically perilous and less likely to strike oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
This intensified circulation caused the thermocline, the boundary between warmer surface water and colder deep water, to become shallower across the Atlantic.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The second project also involves the building of an all-season road, about 140 miles, in Nunavut that would provide access to a proposed deep water port and aerodrome on the Arctic Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
"They were not supposed to go to the water at this time, we know there is deep water," the distraught father said.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
In the deep water, the shadows of the Teeth undulated.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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