This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

Imagine a world where the sun never shines, where temperatures plummet and crushing pressures would flatten most creatures in ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The scan of the storied ship was carried out over three weeks in 2022 by Magellan, a deep-sea mapping company based in the Channel Islands. Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National ...

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, where sunlight never shines and the pressure would crush a submarine like a ...

Beijing officially confirmed the project on March 1, 2025. The research station, which is a deep-sea habitat will be built in methane-rich “cold seep” zones. The interesting part is that six ...

Taiwan has reported five cases of sea cable malfunctions this year, compared with three each in 2024 and 2023, according to its digital ministry. Taiwan’s coast guard has in recent months ...

The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ...

A handful of firms are waiting for Norway to issue the first deep sea mining licenses. File photo of deep-sea mining protestors. Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/ AFP Companies are raring to explore the ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However ...

The Tan Suo Yi Hao, which means "Discovery One" in English, is operated by the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering. It is built for conducting deep ...