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The ocean bottom ，a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth， is even today largely unexplored. Until about a century ago， the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3 ， 600 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earths surface ，the deep-ocean bottom is a strange environment to humans， in some ways as forbidding and remote as