Be the first to comment. “The real monsters facing the ocean are climate change — and plastic. Sadly, we saw plastic bottles at the bottom of the hole, which is a real scourge of the ocean.

Seemingly unaware of the film Deep Blue Sea and countless B-movie tropes, China is set to build a new deep-sea laboratory ...

The exception is deep-sea sea spiders that are larger and more noticeable as they can be up to two feet across. Regardless of size, sea spiders are dominated by their legs and have small bodies.

Before last year, when James Cameron went to the bottom of this deepest part of the ocean in a custom-built submersible, it had only been visited once before.

The deepest spot in the ocean, known as the Marianas Trench, received its first visitors in 1960 and wasn’t visited again until the last decade, when filmmaker James Cameron and the adventurer ...

In 2010, Laurent Ballesta photographed a living coelacanth alongside diver, Cédric Gentil (Credit: Laurent Ballesta/Andromede Oceanologie) Scientists are racing to trace deep ocean species before ...

The inability to penetrate the darkness of the ocean has long been a major handicap for deep-sea exploration. It is why we know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the deep ocean.

UN FAO data shows that deep-sea bottom trawls — fishing 1,300 feet below the ocean's surface and deeper — caught 14 million tons of fish between 1950 and 2015.

Deep-sea black corals are among the oldest animals on earth: One specimen has been dated at 4,265 years old. As they grow, corals incorporate ocean elements into their skeletons.

Blue carbon is stored in mangroves, seagrass and sediments. Discussions at the UN Ocean Decade conference reiterate the importance of preserving existing sea floor habitats, before it’s too late.

NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue The ocean's mesopelagic zone is also known as the twilight zone, roughly 650 to 3,300 feet below the surface. It's where Sloane's viperfish goes to hunt.