The Navy's Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) was built to counter the Soviet submarine threat in deep water, but the Navy now plans to use it against the regional—shallow water ...

In addition to talking with one another, submarines need to receive orders while deeply submerged and far from home.

In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

The most recognizable color for many people there is blue, because water molecules ... Sonar rules the deep ocean, enabling the identification of objects through sound waves. Submarines use ...

Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper layers, are transported by deep currents, and eventually upwelled back to the surface. This process affects the ...

Its applications include mid-water observation ... inspect and image areas inaccessible to the submersible itself. Data and imagery from the deep may be sent to the surface via an acoustic ...