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Fifty years ago, the deep sea vehicle Alvin made its first free dive, submerging to 35 feet below the waves. Since…

Research vessels come in all shapes and sizes for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Over the past eight…

While the Chinese are busy scouting the best under-sea sites to pillage for precious metals, America's venerable…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has announced that its hybrid ROV, the Nereus, was lost over the weekend and is…

Last year, James Cameron became the third person in history to venture to the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana…

Imagine the Earth in your mind's eye. Now round up all the water on the planet into a sphere (we're talking oceans,…

After sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but…

In the last several hundred years, human activity has shifted large quantities of the world's carbon from long-term…

Have you ever listened to the complex sounds of a whale song and wished you could understand what's being said? Well…