Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

Two Saildrone Voyager USVs have launched for the first time from St. Petersburg to map Florida’s coastal waters, supporting ...

By surveying, mapping and sampling two different areas off the Wairarapa and Canterbury coasts which have previously experienced huge landslides, they hope to better understand the hazard and risk ...

Changes in seafloor topography, resulting from tectonic, magmatic and sedimentary processes, influence Arctic and global climate via a multitude of impacts on ocean pathways and energetics.

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean's surface from the depths known as the hadal zone.

David Mearns knows how to find a wreck. He’s an oceanographer and the director at Blue Water Recoveries, a British salvage ...

But despite the presence of 5G in one of the Earth’s most remote locations, fiber connections in the region are much rarer.

The search is expected to be complicated due to the topography of the ocean’s floor as well as the weather. In December 2024, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Ocean Infinity has ...