T he Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of ...

Meet the Spilhaus projection, an ocean-centric map of the world's waters. ... The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through.

I n the Pearl Harbor office of Admiral Nimitz hangs a great wall map of the Pacific Ocean. Last week a new name was pasted on the map: the Philippine Sea. That new name meant that a new management ...