Tennessee bass angler Dylan Nutt was a virtual unknown among the pro ranks until now. Nutt, 22, won the 2026 Bassmaster ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Although commonly described as a tsunami, the titular wave in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is more likely an example of a large rogue wave. For centuries, sailors spoke of two maritime ...

New Zealand's earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine protected areas, typically focused on shallow ecosystems, largely because that is ...

“Deeper than the Ocean” by Mirta Ojito, Journalism ’01, presents readers with characters who live between memory and reality, haunted by the undeadness of their past and by fears passed down through ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

Jessica Irving has received funding from the National Science Foundation to work with MERMAID. She is a member of the Earthscope Oceans Science Committee and was involved in the research study ...

A sleeper shark appeared on camera for the first time at more than 1,500 feet beneath the Antarctic Ocean’s surface, exceeding depths experts thought sharks could exist in that part of the world.

His derring-do and unusual lung capacity led him to make record-breaking dives of more than 200 feet into the Atlantic without wearing a scuba tank or fins. By Richard Sandomir Bob Croft, a daring ...

The Southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research shows. In a study published February 3 in Nature ...

During an expedition off the coast of Argentina, scientists saw something unexpected. In December, they spied a rare jellyfish roughly the length of a school bus, known as the giant phantom jelly, ...

For OBceans and many other San Diegans, these words need no explanation. But for any reader who does, here is the rundown. The Black is an Ocean Beach store that opened 57 years ago and became a hub ...