http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051020-093251-2567r
"VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Canadian and U.S. scientists are planning a project that could turn hundreds of thousands of square miles of sea floor into an undersea observatory."

"That unprecedented engineering project is called the North-East Pacific Time Series Undersea Networked Experiments, or NEPTUNE."