Ocean exploration is growing in demand and the University of Southern Mississippi is working to keep up with that demand. The university, with the NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, is ...

Christopher Clauss, a Marlborough School science teacher, sets sail this week to aid other researchers in filling existing gaps in maps that trace the Eastern Pacific Ocean within and outside of the U ...

The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor.

Researchers exploring an undersea volcano in the Caribbean created a new sensor to gather chemical data with unprecedented capabilities — and shared the experience in real-time with remote colleagues ...

Only around 10 submersibles are certified to dive deeper than 13,000 feet. Don’t expect that percentage to change anytime soon, either. The study’s authors at the Ocean Discovery League in Rhode ...

The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic told a Coast Guard panel Monday he hoped the silver lining of the disaster ...

Deep Sea Vision New clues have emerged in what is one of the greatest mysteries of all time: the disappearance of legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart. Deep Sea Vision, an ocean exploration ...

What we were seeing were the bioluminescent emissions from tens of thousands of plankton, cephalopods, and who knows what else. This is what the world looks like at the ocean’s sunless depths. I’d ...

This dive wasn’t about speed or depth records. It was about exploration along the ocean floor. Moving slowly revealed marine ...