Typical scientist ploy to suck more money out the gu'ment.
" We need to do more research"
"We know so little about it,"
"It's a real challenge to our established understanding of what the Earth's surface looks like underneath the waves,"
--but in terms of knowing how the Earth works and how the world is put together, it is important."
It's a big tax payed cruise for a bunch of people who found out how to get free vacations...take a look at the 'CRUISES' and then look at the
'TEAM'
Notice anything ?
http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/index.html
blah blah blah........bunch of wasters !
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