This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from James Lawrence Powell’s book “Mysteries of the Deep“. When HMS Challenger set sail in 1872, some scientists ...

Tourist submarines offer a way for passengers to explore the ocean without having to train as a diver or grow gills. Staying dry is a nice perk, but the real appeal is seeing sea life up close without ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Workers disembark from a research vessel that returned from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, where soil, water, and wildlife samples were obtained from deep in the ocean as part of ...

The world was gripped by horror in 2023 as the OceanGate submarine met its tragic fate. The submersible, per CBC, was designed to reach dizzying depths of up to — or rather down to — 4,000 meters. Its ...

A team of NASA rocket scientists is developing autonomous underwater robots able to go where humans cannot, deep beneath Antarctica’s giant ice shelves. The robots’ task is to better understand how ...

CEO of The Metals Company holds a nodule brought up from the sea floor. The company plans to mine the seafloor for these nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. Carolyn Cole / Los ...

Cue outrage from environmentalists keen to protect the unique organisms that live in the CCZ at almost any cost. They observe that the deep sea is one of the last places on the planet not yet directly ...