CHINA has unveiled plans for a deep-sea mega-lab that will be hidden 6,500ft down in the bitterly contested South China Sea. The underwater base will study “cold seep” ecosystems ...

“Once saturation is reached, the diver can stay at the bottom for days, weeks, and months without needing any additional ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects ... to reveal some of the sea’s deepest secrets.

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live and work on the deep seafloor.

One UK-based company is working on creating underwater habitats for long-term human sea exploration. "We took a step back and recognised that the ocean, and particularly beneath the surface of the ...

One UK-based company is working on creating underwater habitats for long-term human sea exploration. "We took a step back and recognised that the ocean, and particularly beneath the surface of the ...

DEEP is funded by a mysterious investor who has committed hundreds of millions of pounds to advance oceanic research. The project's leadership remains secretive about the investor's identity and ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

In the 1960s, the Navy built a series of underwater habitats and trained a group of men to live in them. When our story left off, the Navy had successfully operated a Sealab 205 feet below sea level.