This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

How deep does the ocean ... than the depths of the ocean. The image below shows a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, where pink denotes the shallowest water (continental shelves and oceanic ...

1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep sea submersible ... like chimneys on the sea floor, smoking with hot, mineral-rich water.

Pitch darkness, poison gas, heavy metals, extreme acidity, enormous pressure, water at turns frigid and ... leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the deepest cave. With no sunlight, there are ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been ... time scientists used deep-diving vehicles to explore the rugged volcanic terrain of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in water depths of 10,000 feet ...

DR DIVA AMON:The deep sea is absolutely the last unexplored frontier on our planet. The ocean floor is actually less ... NARRATOR:The damage on the surface on the water caused by pollution is ...

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths of the ocean floor. Dr Adrian Glover, a Museum expert in deep-sea biodiversity ...