The deep-sea environment comprises a wealth of distinct ecosystems, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and subsurface habitats. A multitude of bacteria and archaea live in these distant niches ...

An ahead-looking probe of some kind, optical or acoustic, is critical when one is attempting seafloor exploration from a mobile platform. A single-frequency, split aperture sonar system can be used ...

The disaster started at 2:46 p.m., about 80 miles east in the Pacific, along a fault buried deep under the seafloor. A 280-mile-long block of Earth's crust suddenly lurched to the east, parts of ...

A new discovery in the remote Arctic region has stunned scientists. An international team of researchers recently found a ...

Hallmark unwraps a mid-year treat with 'Christmas at Sea,' a marathon of festive favorites, and series premieres.

The observed seafloor disruptions are presumed to be caused by anchor and chain damage and not iceberg scouring for the following reasons: the presence of nearby slow-growing species of sponge ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida ...

While there's no guarantee that the Axial Seamount is about to imminently erupt, cameras are in place just in case. And you can have a front-row seat to the action from the comfort of your own home..

The rules-based global order is under siege at sea. For most of the past century, U.S. naval superiority has bolstered the cooperative maritime security framework needed to build a prosperous ...

Anglerfish ancestors once roamed the seafloor. Here's how we know : Short Wave There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins ...

The bathymetric map of the seafloor around the islands was collected using LIDAR and acoustic data and was supplied by the Australian Hydrographic Office. AUV dives targeted particular seafloor ...

For construction of borehole observatory which aim detect crustal deformation, we developed new deployment method using sensor deployment module for seafloor drilling machine system; the deployment ...