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By Kari Lydersen / The Bulletin
June 13, 2009
Skimming past otherworldly tube worms and bizarre crustaceans as they traversed primordial sediments in inky darkness seven miles below the surface, a yellow robot two weeks ago became the world’s deepest-diving unmanned submersible.
The craft, called Nereus, gave scientists on the....