Operation Wigwam was a 1955 U.S. Navy test designed to measure what a deep underwater nuclear detonation would do to submarines, ships, and surrounding waters. Using a 32 kiloton device suspended ...

Orpheus Ocean ’s AUVs can reach a depth of up to 11,000 meters to perform high-resolution surveys and seafloor sampling. Spun ...

Taking a submarine 500 meters below the ocean surface reveals a deep sea environment filled with darkness, pressure, and ...

More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans remain unmapped and unobserved, according to NOAA. Since the 1990s, a network of ...

For years, researchers have only been able to execute brief expeditions underwater. However, a new technology, a first of its kind, is looking to change that and is hoping to do so much more. The ...

An artistic visualization of ocean currents from NASA has people mesmerized learning about our planet's underwater highways.

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

It's a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the moon and Mars than of the ...

Learn how the Ocean Census discovered 1,121 new marine species, from deep-sea “ghost sharks” to carnivorous sponges, while ...

One of the key highlights at the expo was an autonomous underwater vehicle capable of being launched directly from submarine ...