Aquarius Reef Base,” curated by artist and diver Hope Ginsburg, is on display at Birch Aquarium through February.

In the darkness nearly a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, where the pressure would crush a human and temperatures hover just ...

Marine researchers have found 488 distinct species thriving in a methane-rich, deep-sea environment, according to a summary on Phys.org. Sixty-three dives across five expeditions between 2009 and 2019 ...

Submarines are pretty cool bits of kit. They can offer researchers an unrivaled view of the ocean floor, help search out missing wrecks beneath the waves and can even ferry about the rich and famous, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The surface of the Earth is about two-thirds water, but how much of the world’s deep seas do you think we’ve explored? Dr. Katy Croff Bell founded the Ocean Discovery League and ...

Early in Levi Unema’s career as an electrical engineer, he was presented with an unusual opportunity. While working on ...

Dumbo octopuses, like the Opisthoteuthis agassizii seen here during a 2019 dive, are the deepest-living group of octopuses known. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S.

UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...