The continents are silhouetted in black. Ocean depth is indicated from red (shallow) to blue (deep), increasing in depth with distance from the shoreline. Great swathes of the ocean floor are at ...

The advent of sonar allowed for the first in-depth surveys of the deep ocean floor, and these studies drove geologists to finally accept a radical theory proposed decades earlier and dismissed for ...

The ocean has an average depth of approximately 3.7 kilometres (or 2.3 miles). A calculation from satellite measurements in 2010 put the average depth at 3,682 metres (12,080 feet). However, at the ...

The deepest point of the ocean is believed to be the Challenger Deep in the western Pacific, which is deeper than Mount ...

About 95% of the ocean has yet to be explored, but in what has been explored, there are some truly weird deep-sea creatures ...

A new initiative by the International Seabed Authority has set an ambitious goal, and our team is one of the first to be ...

Despite their tiny size, viruses have a significant and rippling impact throughout all facets of life, including that of the ...

The "Haiwei GD11000," China's first and the world's only all-depth optical cable winch system, jointly developed by Dalian ...