NOVA: Can you talk a little bit about your background and how you ... opened up a Pandora's box in the deep sea because, up until recently, all underwater archaeological discoveries have been ...

About 99 percent of our planet's living space lies underwater ... into the sea. In 1930, William Beebe (left) and Otis Barton (right) became the first humans to observe the deep ocean in their ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Jacques Cousteau emerged as perhaps the most influential 20th-century figure in deep-sea exploration and underwater filmmaking. In the 1940s, Cousteau’s co-invention of the Aqualung (SCUBA ...

Modern oceanographic knowledge of deep ... from underwater explorations.) In my turn I was able to provide my great seven-ton, Arcturus winch, the Gladisfen for towing us out to sea, and my ...