Such spooktacular stories may soon be put to rest. In 2019, the U.S. began a seafloor mapping initiative that included the Great Lakes. The project should be able to take note of sunken vessels or ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

Eventually, when she and her colleague Bruce Heezen published the first map of the Atlantic Ocean in 1957, their drawings showed a seafloor covered with canyons, ridges, and mountains. Over the ...

A new area equivalent in size to Sweden has been mapped in the Arctic Ocean, contributing to the project's aim to map global seafloor by 2030 ...

Benthic habitat mapping and seafloor classification are essential for understanding marine ecosystems and managing marine resources. These processes involve identifying and categorizing the ...

For some seismologists who monitor earthquakes by recording seafloor vibrations, cetacean calls are a nuisance because the racket muffles their measurements. But for two earthquake researchers, they ...

The final of the ocean XPRIZE, which will see fleets of robots compete to map the largest area of seafloor inside 24 hours, will take place in deep waters off the coast of Greece. Teams will be ...

A 6.5 metre Cheetah cat craft called Shoreline is conducting the hydrographic survey with multi-beam equipment, which uses sound waves to map the seafloor. Guernsey Ports said the survey was ...

The map, and the methods used to create it, were published in Nature journal Scientific Data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2 is available here: https://doi.org ...