Part of the tectonic "Ring of Fire" encircling ... the first to sound its fathomless depths with a weighted rope. Deep ocean exploration began with the diving bell: a rigid structure that contains ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

They published their data in the Journal of Geophysical Research—Oceans. Hurricane Fabian, it turns out, delivered as much sediment to the deep ocean in just two weeks as would normally take a ...

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. During an era of silent movies ...

They included the first human descent to the deepest point of the Yap Trench, which is located in the western Pacific Ocean and is nearly 9,000 meters deep ... in the deepest part of the Yap ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, meaning discovery in Chinese, is a remote-operated vehicle submersible ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.A study published in ...