Thousands of feet deep, pieces of wood once on the surface settle onto the ocean floor of the north Atlantic ... records seemed to be missing deep-sea species, according to an Aug. 12 study ...

Chris Lemons’ tether and oxygen supply snapped during a malfunction with a ship on the ocean’s surface. A mix of luck, good ...

Using remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea ... bottom of these pools could serve as an untouched record of Earth’s environmental history. Normally, marine creatures disturb the ocean ...

Karoline O.A. Pettersen The urchin diver gazes over the waves on what’s for him just another day at the office. Karoline O.A. Pettersen Sloan’s sea urchins ... the bottom of the ocean.” ...

By analyzing samples from the deep sea, researchers have found a unique variety of radioactive plutonium that appears to be debris from a rare breed of cosmic explosion called a kilonova, which ...

This stalk of deepsea coral was found nearly 1,200 meters deep at an area ... was sampled from the bottom of the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica. (Alex Ingle/Schmidt Ocean Institute) That's ...

And then go pshewww all the way to the bottom. Straight down ... Captain Buckle set a course for the Challenger Deep, more than 200 miles out to sea. But when the ship arrived above the ...

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 ...

Deep Sea's biggest draw is its visuals, especially the painterly style the film introduces as Shenxiu first delves into the ocean. The opening sequence onboard the cruise ship is grounded ...

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths of the ocean floor. Dr Adrian Glover, a Museum expert in deep-sea biodiversity ... Not ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...