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The show is based on Verne’s classic novel
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But unlike the book, the series is derivative, didactic and not very deep.
Shipwrecks and their cargo can be sites of conflict – but also opportunity.
When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important underwater communities.
The recent tragedy of the Titan submersible bore striking parallels to one of the most widely read novels about life at sea.
The idea we know more about the Moon than the deep sea is seductive – but it’s 70 years out of date.
From Fiji to France to Central Australia, stories abound of lands lost beneath the sea. Some are likely founded on millennia-old memories of coastal submergence, offering us clues today.
It’s difficult to tell a shipwreck from a natural feature on the ocean floor in a scan taken from a plane or ship. This project used deep learning to get it right 92% of the time.
Oceanographer Robert D. Ballard, who is best known for finding the wreck of Titanic, has written a memoir recounting his biggest discoveries and calling for more ocean exploration.
The new underwater robots successfully mimic the sea’s most efficient swimmers.
We undertook a 28-day voyage to explore a possible lost continent in a remote part of the Coral Sea, in an area off the coast of Queensland. Here’s what we found.
Finding the wreck of SS Iron Crown, lost underwater for more than 70 years, was the (relatively) easy part. It’s what we can learn from now on that’s the challenge.
Could this new technology do for the microscopic marine world what the first telescopes did for the heavens above?
The hunt for ‘Nessie’ has been going on for decades but there’s a good reason why nothing has been found.
As ships resume the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the depths of the Indian Ocean this week, we often hear that the oceans are “95% unexplored” and that we know more about the surface…
Not long after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was declared missing, the world’s attention was focused on a remote, poorly known area of the Eastern Indian Ocean as the possible location of the lost…
The ongoing search for missing flight MH370 has shown how finding objects such as debris on the ocean is difficult, but finding them underwater in the deep ocean is much more challenging. As of Tuesday…
Flash photography has no significant effect on the behaviour, movement or site persistence of the White’s seahorse. This…
On an exploratory mission to discover more about the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, underwater volcanoes and mineral-laden…
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Head of Marine Imaging Lab, University of Haifa
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Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication, University of Southampton
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Research Associate in Evolutionary Biology, Adelaide University
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Chancellor's Fellow in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Edinburgh
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Research Marine Biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Doctoral student in Geography, The University of Texas at Austin
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Adjunct lecturer in archaeology, Flinders University
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Maritime-Underwater Archaeologist and PhD Candidate on Archaeology (Humanities), Flinders University