Chinese PLA-linked vessels map the Indian Ocean for submarine warfare. Beijing’s growing research activities in international waters are designed to expand undersea military operations, analysts say ...

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist and a ...

Another search has been launched to scour the ocean floor 1,200 miles off the ... A map showing the new ... MH370 have been found when they washed ashore on islands in the western Indian Ocean.

The Heezen-Tharp “World Ocean Floor” map painted by Heinrich Berann. Marie Tharp Maps, LLC After Heezen's death, organizations that had hired him and Tharp to work on projects reassigned them.

The crew of the E/V Nautilus has already spotted whale corpses, octopus gardens, and the wreckage of German submarines sitting on the ocean floor. There’s much more to see.

INCOIS scientists map Indian Ocean floor to study currents Oceans play a critical role in both weather and climate prediction; due to vast economic benefits, it is essential to accurately forecast ...

The Xiang Yang Hong 03 reached the Indian Ocean on July 11 after a brief stop in Malaysia. Damien Symon, an open-source intelligence expert, mapped the ship's movement in the region in a recent ...

Most tsunamis start with earthquakes under or near the ocean floor. The seafloor provides habitat for fish, corals and complex communities of microbes, crustaceans and other organisms.

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...

With more data, the gravity maps could be refined to reveal hundreds of thousands of previously unknown seamounts less than 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) high dotting the ocean floor. The one thing the ...

It’s said that humanity knows more about the surface of the Moon than the ocean floor. This is particularly the case in the Indian Ocean, which is among the least charted oceans in the world. During ...

Chinese research vessels with ties to the People's Liberation Army are conducting sweeping surveys of the undersea floor in the Indian Ocean, collecting data that could be crucial in deploying ...