Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways, a mighty force rattled the depths of the ocean floor ...

to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean. Led by the Museums Victoria Research Institute, dozens of scientists mapped the ocean floor of Cocos (Keeling ...

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...

Chinese research vessels with ties to the People’s Liberation Army are conducting sweeping surveys of the undersea floor in the Indian Ocean, collecting data that could be crucial in deploying ...

Known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), this region ... s interior and trace the movement of materials beneath the ocean ...

GEBCO bathymetric data - digital mapping of the ocean floor in layman's terms - observed ... assumed that the plane plunged into the southern Indian Ocean, with satellite data suggesting an ...

Scientists have puzzled over the origins of a gravity hole in the Indian Ocean for years. Now, researchers think the sunken floor of an extinct ocean could be the cause. When you purchase through ...