This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a tiny dot on the immense Pacific Ocean. Pilot Avi Klapfer floods the ballast tanks, and we sink, surrounded ...

Since National Geographic began making maps in 1915 ... ACC transports more water than any other ocean current. It pulls in waters from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, helping drive ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic ... voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map, the first that ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Barack Obama slipped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean wearing only fins, trunks, a mask, and a snorkel.

This month National ... the Pacific yourself. Starting October 6, you can visit the immersive experience—and leave completely dry. Go FURTHER into National Geographic’s “Encounter: Ocean ...

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. There is a kingdom of coral in the principality of the Pacific Ocean called Kimbe Bay. “It is a world,” says ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Five percent of the ocean is protected. Science says half the ocean must be protected to make a real difference.