Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...

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The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and found a massive underwater mountain. Using a sonar system, the researchers digitally mapped the seafloor of the area and ...

Bethel-based Transcend Engineering developed technology that's helping researchers study a massive underwater reservoir off ...

Researchers have uncovered a massive underwater mountain that was previously unknown in the Pacific Ocean. The mountain, known as a seamount, sits around 13,100 feet below sea level and peaks at a ...

The profound depths of an ocean are enshrouded in silence. But some spots erupt with a stunning soundscape: seamounts. Called “underwater mountains,” seamounts concentrate the various sounds of the ...

In the 1960s, the Navy built a series of underwater habitats and trained a group of men to live in them. When our story left off, the Navy had successfully operated a Sealab 205 feet below sea level.

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the Antarctic Circumpolar Current — an ocean current that flows clockwise around Antarctica. When you ...