Here is a clip of what it is like to skim the bottom of a deep ocean trench (the San Cristobal, South Pacific) at a depth of 8484 meters in a submersible.

Bing Maps just released an update that includes “bathymetric imagery," which provides a better look at ocean floor topography, as well as 13 million square kilometers of new satellite imagery ...

Fishing Vessels Level Seafloor A new study reveals that humans have been altering the ocean bottom for decades, since the widespread implementation of bottom trawling ...

As the waves of a tsunami approach a coastline, the topography of the seafloor near the coast plays a major role in determining how large those waves become and what places get hit harder than ...

As the waves of a tsunami approach a coastline, the topography of the seafloor near the coast plays a major role in determining how large those waves become and what places get hit harder than others.

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute of California filmed the never-before-seen seamount, which stretches 1.9 miles towards the surface from the Pacific Ocean floor and features a thriving ...

As the waves of a tsunami approach a coastline, the topography of the seafloor near the coast plays a major role in determining how large those waves become and what places get hit harder than others.

Detailed renderings of the Pacific Ocean floor are a key feature of The Oregonian/OregonLive real-time earthquake map, which draws on a data feed that the U.S. Geological Survey updates every 15 ...

Life at the bottom of the ocean is extreme. It's pitch black, the temperature hovers right above freezing and the pressure is immense. Although many species have evolved to survive and thrive at ...

A towering cliff in the Japan Trench of the Pacific Ocean “is unlike anything that’s been observed by science before.” ...