Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so risky.

It would take nearly 300 years — in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster — before sonar technology began to offer scientists a clearer picture of what lies in the ocean's depths.A major step ...

The deepest regions of Earth’s oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water’s surface as Mount Rainier’s peak rises above the land surface. These great depths of 4 ...

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

However, below the calcite compensation depth, sea anemones, sea cucumbers and octopus are more abundant. This under-saturated (more acidic) habitat already limits life in 141 million square ...

A history of ocean exploration. The first submarine was built by Dutch engineer Cornelis Drebbel in 1620, but it stuck to shallow waters. It would take nearly 300 years — in the aftermath of the ...

It would take nearly 300 years — in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster — before sonar technology began to offer scientists a clearer picture of what lies in the ocean's depths.A major step ...

It would take nearly 300 years — in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster — before sonar technology began to offer scientists a clearer picture of what lies in the ocean's depths.A major step ...

It would take nearly 300 years — in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster — before sonar technology began to offer scientists a clearer picture of what lies in the ocean's depths.A major step ...