A growing number of maritime companies and navies are using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to map the ocean seabed for environmental, commercial and research purposes, Norwegian firm ...

More such discoveries almost certainly await. One important reason for ignorance about the seabed is the lack of a tool that can easily map its topography from an aircraft flying above the water.

The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite, launched in December 2022, has mapped the seabed in just one year.

"Our research shows that fresh and brackish aquifers below the seabed are actually quite a common phenomenon," Post tells the science news site. He adds, "Knowing about these reserves is great ...

Coastal nations have quietly taken over areas of seabed totalling almost the size of Australia since 2002 and far more is up for grabs in one of the biggest redrawings of the world map in history ...

PICKING and prodding at a smelly, mouldy slab of mud and clay taken from the Solent seabed, Garry Momber is in his element. “That’s interesting,” he says as he inspects a black flake taken ...

Broad The company that possesses the exclusive salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck and the ship’s artifacts filed in federal court on Saturday a map of the surrounding seabed that shows ...

Up to 20,000 oysters have been released onto the seabed of the Solent in a bid to revive stocks. Fishing of the mollusc was banned in the area in 2013 when annual harvests plummeted from 200 to 20 ...

Work on an 8,000-year-old Stone Age settlement under the surface of the Solent in Hampshire is throwing ... a lobster cleaning out its burrow on the seabed and to their surprise the animal was ...

PICKING and prodding at a smelly, mouldy slab of mud and clay taken from the Solent seabed, Garry Momber is in his element. “That’s interesting,” he says as he inspects a black flake taken ...

Work on an 8,000-year-old Stone Age settlement under the surface of the Solent in Hampshire is throwing ... a lobster cleaning out its burrow on the seabed and to their surprise the animal was ...