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A Luxury Travel Company Will Offer Titanic Tours in 2018

The first trip costs $105,000, and is already booked up.

Boaty McBoatface Is About to Embark on Its First Mission

The autosub is headed to Antarctica to gather data on cold ocean currents.

NASA/Kathryn Hansen via Flickr Creative Commons // CC BY 2.0

Experts Predict Widespread Ocean Warming by 2050

Up to 86 percent of the ocean surface will be warming and acidifying within the next few decades—unless we take steps to prevent it.

Scientists Capture First Underwater Footage of Rare Beaked Whales

The True's beaked whale is one of the most elusive mammals in the ocean.

13 Wondrous Photos of Waves

Australian photographer Warren Keelan ventures off shore to get close-ups of the ocean in action.

Our Pollution Has Now Reached Deep-Sea Animals

Scientists found high levels of contamination in two of the deepest ocean trenches.

Eating Shellfish Likely Means Eating Plastic, Scientists Say

The amount of plastic in our oceans—and thus in our seafood—is rising.

Deep-sea urchins are seen in an ocean trench near New Zealand.

8 Surprising Facts About the Deepest Part of the Ocean

Just a handful of people have ever been to the deepest part of the ocean, but what we've learned about life in the hadal zone is astonishing.

NOAA Okeanos Explorer program, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Creates Protected Zone for Atlantic Deep-Sea Corals

The Frank R. Lautenberg Deep Sea Coral Protection Area is off-limits for commercial fishing practices that affect the sea floor.

Could Feeding Seaweed to Cows Help Save the Climate?

Scientists were able to reduce methane production by 99 percent in preliminary tests on artificial cow stomachs.

Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, 2005-ongoing. Photo © Institute For Figuring

Crocheted Coral Reefs Raise Awareness of Real Reefs' Destruction

Sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim started the Crochet Coral Reef project in 2005 when they learned pollution and global warming may soon completely destroy the Great Barrier Reef in their home country of Australia.

Inosipmax via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0

7 Unattractive Facts About Blobfish

They don't look half bad underwater.

Follow a Research Vessel Into the 'Hot Tub of Despair'

Many creatures who enter never come out.

Diliff via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

England’s White Cliffs Are Crumbling at an Accelerated Rate

Researchers say chalk cliffs in Sussex are receding from the coast 10 times faster than they did a few centuries ago.

Nick Hobgood via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

Coral and Algae Have Been Friends for 212 Million Years

Analysis of coral skeletons from the Late Triassic period shows that the corals were already involved in a symbiotic relationship with dinoflagellate algae even then.

Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0

World’s Largest Marine Reserve Declared in Antarctica

International protections on the so-called "Serengeti of Antarctica" will hold for 35 years.

Scientists Discover Hundreds of Deep-Sea Methane Vents off West Coast

The methane vents reveal more clues about our mysterious oceans, and they also could tell us more about climate change.

Lifeguard Builds Blimp to Scan Australian Beach for Sharks

It's now a lot safer to go back in the water.

10 Big-Mouthed Facts About Basking Sharks

The second-largest living fish is a gentle giant with some peculiar habits and a knack for instigating cryptozoological debates.

Steven G. Johnson via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

Invasive Comb Jellies Crowd the Adriatic Sea

Commerical fish populations are under threat.

9 Amazing Statues You Can Only See Underwater

Across the world statues have been sunk into the oceans for a variety of reasons—as memorials, to offer protection to a fragile marine environment, or simply as beautiful art.

President Obama Names First-Ever Marine Monument in the Atlantic Ocean

New England’s Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is home to chubby octopuses, ancient sharks, and underwater chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon.

A New Research Vessel Named After Sally Ride Has Hit Waterways

Scientists aboard the ship will study how global warming is affecting Earth's oceans.

Beautiful and Historic Glass Models of Sea Creatures Are on Display in New Exhibit

In the late 19th century, the Blaschka glass models of marine invertebrates ended up all over the world. Now some are on display at the Corning Museum of Glass.

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