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Early plumb-line depth-soundings and cable-laying may have picked up on parts of the ridges, but it needed full mapping to reveal what's really down there.

Initially by echo-sounding, now also by sidescan-sonar that produces TV-like false-colour images of swathes of the sea floor and its features.

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