Roughly 25 percent (23.4 percent to be exact) of the Earth’s sea floor has been mapped, thanks to an international initiative known as Seabed 2030. Relying largely on voluntary contributions of ...

TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, ...

Saildrone has successfully completed a comprehensive bathymetric mapping mission across the Cayman Islands’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), covering approximately 90,000 square kilometers of seabed ...

Imaging the structure of the deep seafloor is critical to understanding the biology and ecology of the largest living space on our planet. But to date, only about 20% of the ocean floor has been ...

University of New Hampshire's autonomous boat, Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator (BEN), finds lost shipwrecks. BEN maps the ocean floor in spots that are too shallow or dangerous for divers or ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed in the past 100 years, humans still know little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn more. Most ...

Shallow seas serve as critical transition zones connecting land and the deep ocean, supplying essential resources for ...

Memorial University of Newfoundland provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Memorial University of Newfoundland provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Marine ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...

Ocean floor map. Painted by Austrian artist Heinrich C. Berann, this 1976 map was based on bathymetric studies by geologists Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen. In summer 2019, the privately funded "Five ...