Voyage

Huge resources of methane gas, trapped in frozen hydrates at thebottom of the oceans, are piquing the interests of researchersworldwide who estimate gas reserves in deep, frigid waters to be asmuch as 500 times larger than conventional gas reserves. With therecent enactment of the Methane Hydrate Act of 2000, passed byCongress and signed last week by President Clinton, more attentionis expected to be focused on these untapped reserves.