Articles about marine science

OceanGate explorers solve a 26-year-old mystery and document life near the Titanic

During an expedition to the Titanic back in 1996, submersible pilot PH Nargeolet noticed a curious sonar blip that was… Read More

Beyond the Titanic: OceanGate’s founder contemplates future deep-sea frontiers

When it comes to undersea adventures, can anything match seeing the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic with your own eyes?… Read More

Octopus seen during Ocean Observatories Initiative's Vision '13 expedition

What octopus intelligence can teach us about artificial intelligence — and aliens

Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think so — and in… Read More

OceanGate’s high-def 8K video of Titanic wreck reveals previously unseen details

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions set a new standard this year for documenting the condition of the 110-year-old wreck of the… Read More

OceanGate’s explorers update their view of a tattered Titanic ⁠and the life around it

After his second yearly series of dives to the Titanic, the CEO and founder of Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says the… Read More

OceanGate ramps up the research for its second deep-sea expedition to the Titanic

One year after OceanGate’s first expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second… Read More

OceanGate plans environmental DNA survey during this summer’s dives to Titanic shipwreck site

What’s lurking at the Titanic shipwreck site, nearly 13,000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic? Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate… Read More

Paul Allen-backed effort completes groundbreaking atlas of Earth’s coral reefs to aid conservation

After four years of collaboration, an international team of researchers and institutions has produced the Allen Coral Atlas, the first… Read More

NOAA selects Univ. of Washington to host regional institute for climate and ocean research

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected the University of Washington to host a Pacific Northwest research institute focusing… Read More

OceanGate raises $18M to build a bigger submersible fleet and set up Titanic trips

OceanGate says it has raised $18.1 million in new investment, laying the financial groundwork for an expansion of its fleet… Read More

How I unwittingly steered OceanGate’s sub to discovery in Puget Sound’s depths

POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Steering a five-person submersible is like playing a video game, except for the fact that you’re… Read More

Researchers watch Titanic wreck crumble, one year before OceanGate’s planned dives

Scientists and enthusiasts are due to visit the wreck of the Titanic next summer in a submersible built by Everett,… Read More

How climate change choked ancient life to death — and why it could happen again

Scientists say rapidly warming oceans played a key role in the world’s biggest mass extinction, 252 million years ago, and… Read More

Allen Coral Atlas tracks changes in the world’s reefs from space via satellite

Even after death, the philanthropic initiatives from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen just keep on coming. Today the Paul G. Allen… Read More

Scientists in a sub turn up good news during expedition in the Salish Sea

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — This week’s Salish Sea Expedition is unfolding amid the heavily trafficked waters off the San Juan Islands, but… Read More

Ships set sail from Seattle on a NASA mission to trace sea creatures’ carbon trail

After seven years of preparation, two research vessels are heading out of Seattle to begin a 40-day voyage to track… Read More

Meteorite-hunting ship picks up two promising bits from Pacific Ocean seafloor

A research ship has recovered at least two bits of molten rock from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that… Read More

What caused 2014’s bird die-off on the Pacific coast? Scientists blame the Blob

Researchers have untangled the mystery behind a die-off that felled hundreds of thousands of tough seabirds known as Cassin’s auklets… Read More

Deep-sea video captures the sexual hookup of live anglerfish for the first time

Scientists studying deep-sea anglerfish have long known about the bizarre mismatch between the species’ whiskered females and teeny-tiny males. But… Read More

Titan unleashed: OceanGate’s Titanic sub takes to the water with a new name

Don’t call it Cyclops 2: The five-person submersible built by Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has been renamed Titan, befitting its role… Read More

University of Washington’s top research ship returns to duty after midlife makeover

The University of Washington’s biggest research ship is getting loaded up with scientists, supplies and an underwater robot after an… Read More

OceanGate and Everest Marine complete construction of Titanic sub’s launch pad

Construction work is complete for an essential part of the dive system that’s due to carry scientists and amateur adventurers… Read More

OceanGate attracts more funding for a sub that will carry explorers to the Titanic

OceanGate is in the midst of a $5.1 million investment round aimed at pushing the Everett, Wash.-based company closer to… Read More

Some assembly required: OceanGate readies Titanic sub for the holidays

EVERETT, Wash. — Almost all the pieces are in place for a Yuletide delivery of Titanic proportions: the completion of a… Read More

Meet the deepest fish in the sea: The Mariana snailfish, identified with UW’s help

They look like ghosts of the abyss, but the wispy, pinkish-white, smooth-skinned creatures at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s… Read More

Watch: Huge great white shark bites underwater camera used in Paul Allen’s FinPrint project

A camera positioned underwater near the Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, with the goal of capturing footage of sharks… Read More