Being mostly an inland body of water, how do ships manage to get in and out of the Black Sea? What does the process look like and how difficult is it?

The Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet recently has been deploying its submarines to the Mediterranean, despite a decades-old international treaty which many thought would prevent those deployments ...

The amphibious warship Fort McHenry sailed through the Mediterranean Sea's Strait of Messina on Jan. 3. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chris Roys/Released) ...

The Russian army has deployed one Kalibr cruise missile carrier in the Black Sea. Meanwhile, four Russian ships in the Mediterranean Sea are capable of launching up to 44 of these missiles ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of the Biden administration's decision to abandon plans to send two destroyers to the Black Sea by closing off the Kerch Strait, connecting Crimea ...

Turkey's Erdogan launches work on controversial Black Sea canal. ... a gigantic waterway running parallel to the Bosphorus Strait connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean.

The narrow stretch of water known as the Strait of Messina, where the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis swallowed sailors and ships, hides the world's largest forest of black coral ...

The Sicily Strait, an underwater relief connecting the Italian island with the Tunisian coasts, is not a geological barrier for the deep water circulation between eastern and western Mediterranean ...

The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, situated between Djibouti and Yemen, represents the southern entry point to the Red Sea and holds strategic importance in connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian ...

Russia exports liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) via the Kerch Strait, which connects the Azov Sea with the Black Sea, in tankers. Black Sea port of Taman accounts for around 7.5% of Russia's total ...

The Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic Ocean waters breached the strait of Gibraltar, sending a massive flood into the basin.