Used to connect the seafloor to production facilities above ... top-tensioned risers are a completely vertical riser system that terminates directly below the facility. Although moored, these ...

A team of scientists from the U.S. and the U.K. has used artificial intelligence (AI) to map the activities of seafloor invertebrate animals, such as worms, clams and shrimps, across all the ...

The input of fresh organic matter into the seafloor could increase due to climate ... cycle and thus on the feedback with the climate system in a way that is still largely unexplored.

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has helped develop an autonomous underwater float that can monitor and transmit oceanographic and underwater acoustic data near-indefinitely, and in near real-time.

Nearly 400 feet beneath the Mediterranean Sea, over 1,300 unexplained rings were found etched across the seafloor ... from the vessel’s onboard sonar system, which was emitting a series of ...

Massive quantities of microplastics lie on the deep ocean floor 500 kilometers off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, the highest level ever found on the seafloor anywhere, a group of ...