- Engels Nederlands
- blog = blog
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A blog is a type of diary that appears on a website.
blog
- bottom = bodem
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When the submersible touched the bottom, it disturbed a fish.
bodem
- chimney = schoorsteen
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The bottom of the sea is covered with “chimneys” up to 20 metres high.
schoorsteen
- crab = krab
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Thousands of crabs, mussels and fish live around the “chimneys”.
krab
- crack = barst
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Water goes slowly down through tiny cracks in the sea bed.
barst
- depth = diepte
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The average depth of the sea is 3.86 kilometres.
diepte
- descend = afdalen
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They set a world record by descending 183 metres below the surface of the ocean.
afdalen
- discovery = ontdekking
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Hydrothermal vents are a recent discovery that we still don't know a lot about.
ontdekking
- disturb = verstoren
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When the submersible touched the bottom it disturbed a fish.
verstoren
- evaporate = verdampen
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Why doesn't the sea get saltier when millions of litres of water evaporate every day?
verdampen
- Greetings = groeten
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Greetings from a research ship in the Azores.
groeten
- Hydrothermal vents = hydrothermale bron
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Hydrothermal vents are a recent discovery that we still don't know a lot about.
hydrothermale bron
- Molten rock = gesmolten
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Molten rock is rock that has become liquid because it is very hot.
gesmolten
- mussel = mossel
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Thousands of crabs, mussels and fish live around the “chimneys”.
mossel
- Navy = marine
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A two-man US Navy team dived to the deepest underwater point on Earth.
marine
- observer = toeschouwer
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I am an observer – I am here to watch what happens.
toeschouwer
- peer = turen / staren
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As I peered down I realised I was looking toward a world of life.
turen / staren
- rainbow = regenboog
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They are yellow, red, orange, green, blue – you can see why they're called rainbow vents.
regenboog
- salt = zout
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Why doesn't the sea get saltier when millions of litres of water evaporate every day?
zout
- sea bed = zeebodem
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We're over 2,000 metres down now and near the sea bed.
zeebodem
- set a = een record vestigen
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In 1930 Charles William Beebe and Otis Barton set a world record by descending 183 metres.
een record vestigen
- shrimp = garnaal
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Thousands of shrimps, crabs, mussels and fish live around the “chimneys”.
garnaal
- spacious = ruim
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The room is very spacious – it can hold up to fifty people.
ruim
- submersible = onderzeeër / duikboot
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When the submersible touched the bottom it disturbed a fish.
onderzeeër / duikboot
- trench = trog / geul
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A trench is a long narrow valley at the bottom of the sea.
trog / geul
- underwater = onderwater-
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The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest underwater place on Earth.
onderwater-
- unexpected = onverwacht
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What a fantastic sight! It's so unexpected.
onverwacht
- while = terwijl
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The women's team reached the finals, while the men's team were knocked out in the first round.
terwijl