Many of these amazing finds were discovered by accident. So the next time you're at the beach, keep an eye out!

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Amelia Earhart, the first person to fly across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, disappeared while flying in 1937. Read about ...

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.

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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 ...

From the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment led the charge of ...

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 ...