IOCAS’s biodiversity analysis of three adjacent seamounts in the Western Pacific showed that of the species found at the seamounts, less than 5% were found at all three. This illustrates the ...

everything we need for our quest to reach a seamount named Las Gemelas. Its cluster of peaks, rarely seen up close before, rises from the bottom of the Pacific near Cocos Island, 300 miles ...

The Tunnicliffe Collection, largely from hydrothermal vents, holds more than 5,200 lots of formalin- and ethanol-fixed animals collected from the northeast Pacific (Juan de Fuca and Explorer Ridges), ...

By Edward Carver Fishing vessels can often work long periods at sea without coming to port, thanks to the practice of transshipment, in which catches are transferred at sea to carrier ships called ...

What You Need to Know: In October 2021, the USS Connecticut, a $3 billion Seawolf-class submarine, collided with an uncharted seamount in the Pacific Ocean. The incident, which injured eleven crew ...

For the second year in a row, New Zealand has blocked an Australian-backed proposal to restrict bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

Among the targets in that effort were the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and the Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll National Marine Monuments in the South Pacific. The ...