Google AI Tracks Mysterious Deep Sea “Biotwang” to Help Study Bryde’s Whale

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has partnered with Google AI to analyze an ocean of long-term passive acoustic data. Using AI and machine learning, they have analyzed in hours what would otherwise take decades to process. In 2014, … Continue reading

Eurythenes plasticus — Newly Discovered Deep Sea Amphipod Named After Plastic In Its Guts

British researchers have discovered a new species of amphipod. The team from England’s Newcastle University, led by Dr Alan Jamieson, found the shrimp-like crustacean in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench between Japan and the Philippines and below the Great Pacific … Continue reading

Trash In the Trench — Record Dive Find Plastics in Challenger Deep

American diver breaks record with journey to the Mariana Trench American adventurer Victor Vesco broke the record for deepest submarine dive ever in the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. In his four hours at the bottom, he … Continue reading

Return to the Mariana Trench – Teams Racing to Dive 6 NM Down

Fifty two years ago, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and oceanographer Jacques Piccard dove to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste. They were the first, and so far, the only humans to have ventured to the deepest … Continue reading