Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

And no, we’re not talking about sharks. It’s the depths of the ocean, an impenetrably dark and crushing place where, somehow, ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

Search efforts continue for the five-person, 6.5-metre-long submersible that went missing on Sunday while on an expedition to see the wreckage of the Titanic. Here’s a look at how deep the ...

After the submersible returned to the platform, ballast tanks on the platform were designed to fill with air, bringing the entire structure to the surface of the ocean. Photos from a previous ...

That’s what an international team of scientists did last summer. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the researchers took ...

A recent underwater expedition has revealed a thriving network of creatures at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. These ...

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, on June 28 ...

Deep water expeditions are murky territory. We need to navigate them carefully. Image via Shutterstock. A few weeks ago, when the story of the Titan submersible was dominating the news cycle, I ...

Science · Photos Deep-sea volcano a hotspot for mysterious life Submersible used to explore Cook seamount, a 3,962-metre extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea ...

Fifty years ago, two British sailors sat trapped in a deep-sea submersible more than 1,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, facing an uncertain fate while an international team ...

The average depth of our planet’s vast ocean is about 4,000 metres. The deepest point — the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean — is nearly 11,000 metres deep. When it comes to ...