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Alfred Scott McLaren is a retired U.S. Navy Captain who has spent nearly six years underwater in submarines. He s also a submersible pilot who has visited the wreck of the Titanic twice.He spoke with Scripps News about the noises someone aboard a submarine might encounter. I remember from my submarine days we get lots of strange noises down there, McLaren said. One of the things that used to drive us nuts is something called carpenter fish. I stanley cup t sounded like carpenters banging on wood or pipe or things like that. There are a lot of marine noises that could be confused. The fact that this was detected at half hour intervals is encouraging. McLaren also discussed potential scenarios that the crew of the submersible might encounter. He said even if the submersible is on the surface, it could be difficult to locate. In al stanley cup l the operations I ve done, whether it s submarines or submersibles, protocol is if you lose communicati stanley cup on, you go to the surface, McLaren said. Now that submersible, once it got to that surface 鈥here probably is hardly anything projecting above the water. And you re there in that sea state and light fog. It could be up there on the surface all this time and you sti Cxok Google legal chief leaving amid sexual misconduct troubles
Kent Dunn and his sons spend their days preparing for harvest in Finney County, Kansas. Their farm grows thousands of acres of corn for local cattle feedlots, soybeans, cotton and milo.But their farm, like every other in the county, is struggling to conserve the one thing in short supply: water. If we dont conserve the aquifer, itll be something that just disappears, said Kent Dunn, of 4D Farms. All the fields across the region pump water from deep in the ground out of a natural source called the Ogallala Aquifer. Through time, the water seeped into the aquifer, and its not replenishing like that today, said Dunn. Theyre talking an inch or two a year replenishment, and were pumping 18-24 inches per jordan acre out today, and its just not sustainable at that rate, Dunn said of the groundwater.In an effort to save water, the Dunns have stopped growing as much corn and have started growing more crops like milo, which are much more drought-tolerant plants.Theyre working with other farmers to ext nike dunk end the like of the Ogallala salomon . Its 174,000 square miles of fresh water underground that stretches from South Dakota all the way to northwest Texas. It supplies the water for one-q