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Basketwork eels gathering in extraordinary numbers around Patience Seamount, south of Tasmania, in footage captured in 2007. (CSIRO) Every year, hundreds of meters below the waves in the cold, dark ...

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Diving 500 meters underwater in a submarine reveals an extraordinary world hidden far beneath the ocean surface. This ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Active "smoker" hydrothermal vent chimneys about 9 meters tall are found deep in the Mariana Arc region in the Western Pacific Ocean. Credit: Pacific Ring of Fire 2004 Expedition. NOAA Office of Ocean ...

Early response to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. (US Coast Guard) In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig failed ...

Samoan council of chiefs and community groups seek to protect over 31 million acres of ocean from destructive mining activity ...