This story was updated to properly reflect that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is a part of the Department of the ...

Multiple theories exist regarding the fate of the aviator and her Lockheed Electra plane.

Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who spent more than a decade in federal custody for refusing to disclose the location of a cache of gold coins from a historic shipwreck, was released from prison.

Kerry Howell receives funding from the Bezos Earth Fund's AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge. Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometre beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis. The life that does survive in ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - The last vessel in the Pathfinder series is ready for the water at Bollinger Shipyards, bearing the name of the oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic. The ...

A veritable gold rush appears to be opening up, not in the dusty hills of California but in the deep seabeds of the Pacific Ocean — one that’s being driven by an insatiable global demand of critical ...

PASCAGOULA, Ms. — The U.S. Navy will christen the future USNS Robert Ballard (T-AGS 67) during a ceremony at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Feb. 28 at 10:00 a.m. (CST).