An international team of scientists set sail on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Falkor (too) research vessel in September to ...

Ship-based sonar has a resolution of about 200–400 meters (650–1,300 feet). The Seabed 2030 project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade using this method. However, the ...

It's now up to just shy of a quarter of the total area under water - at 23.4%. Better seafloor maps help us with navigation and conservation, among many other uses. Some 10 million sq km (3.8 ...

Wang said: "This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient piece of seafloor that subducted into the Earth." "This is just the beginning," Wang said. "We believe that there are ...

The final of the ocean XPRIZE, which will see fleets of robots compete to map the largest area of seafloor inside 24 hours, will take place in deep waters off the coast of Greece. Teams will be ...

The map, and the methods used to create it, were published in Nature journal Scientific Data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2 is available here: https://doi.org ...

A pair of keen-eyed anglers noticed something abnormal sticking out of the seafloor off the coast of Sicily, Italy. When ...