31.   Dutch and Russian experts decided to leave it on sea bed, fearing it could break off and destabilize the salvage operation.

32.   Fishing boats can also move bombs around on the sea bed when the devices get caught up in their deep-water trawling lines.

33.   Greenpeace activists occupied an old North Sea oil platform Sunday to stop owner Shell from dumping the rusting hulk to the sea bed.

34.   He said that the navy would also take measures to prevent the fragments that will remain on the sea bed from posing a threat to the environment.

35.   In early April, Yeltsin and Nazarbayev said they had agreed to dividing the sea bed into sectors, but using the resources in the sea jointly.

36.   It is testing side scan sonar that could be used for detecting mines on the sea bed, and would be ideal for this non-military application.

37.   Littoral nations Kazakstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan all support the division of the sea bed into sectors.

38.   Meanwhile, sailors on the USS Cole continued repair work on the destroyer while divers collected forensic evidence from the sea bed below the damaged ship.

39.   Many small reservoirs are believed to exist in fractures within the igneous sea bed.

40.   Natuna gas has high levels of carbon dioxide, which must be removed and buried deep in the sea bed.