A dome-­fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000m in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

The Gorringe seamount, located 200 kilometres off the Portuguese coast in the Atlantic Ocean, is the tallest underwater mountain in western Europe. Formed where the African and Eurasian tectonic ...

To find the Fish Ruins near the Forgotten Deep, start at the edge of the dome next to Billy’s portable stash. Swim out ...

Fishing access has been restored to protected waters near Cape Cod, drawing mixed reactions from scientists and fishing ...

The mission was undertaken by the Saildrone Surveyor, which the company calls "the world's largest uncrewed ocean mapping ...

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is once again open to commercial fishing. Whether that’s a good ...

Beneath the ocean’s rolling surface, there are mountains. Not the snowy peaks you hike, but vast, underwater volcanoes rising ...

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Feb. 6 to open a marine protected area off the northeastern U.S. to commercial fishing, in his latest move to deregulate the country’s waters and ...

"The ocean surface is definitely not flat. It is constantly changing as wind, waves and swells produce surface undulations, daily tidal fluctuations raise and lower the average height." ...

The Hunga Volcano eruption in January 2022 off the coast of Tonga did more than produce a spectacular explosion visible from ...

Far below the waves, scientists are mapping landscapes that look uncannily like the drowned worlds humans have imagined for millennia. From circular ruins off Spain to vanished shorelines around ...