Bottom crawler
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bottom-crawler-317-12065823
title:
Bottom crawler
text:
A bottom crawler is an underwater exploration and recovery vehicle. It is designed to sink to the bottom of a body of water, where it moves about using traction against the bottom with wheels or tracks. It is usually tethered to a surface ship by cables providing power, control, video, and lifting capabilities, but this is not essential. Such devices have been proposed for use in recovering deep seabed minerals, such as manganese nodules. These also have been considered since the late 1960s for
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Underwater exploration and recovery vehicle that moves about on the bottom with wheels or tracks
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_crawler
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-19T09:42:20Z
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