Explore and document a collection of nationally significant shipwrecks in the deep waters (130-480 feet) of Lake Michigan’s Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary In the summers of 2025 ...

The upcoming expedition is part of a multi-year collaborative effort to restore deep-sea habitats in the Gulf of Mexico that ...

Over the past two years, NOAA Ocean Exploration and its partners have mapped approximately 267,500 square kilometers (103,300 ...

The deep scattering layer (or DSL) is a region in the water column where there is a high density of marine organisms that reflect sound. During World War II, technicians using the then newly invented ...

The coloration of animals in the ocean follows a surprisingly regular pattern by depth, most likely tied to how light penetrates ocean water and an animal’s ability to blend in with its surroundings.

Light in the ocean decreases with depth, with minimal light penetrating between 200-1,000 meters (656-3,280 feet) and depths below 1,000 meters receiving no light from the surface. The importance of ...

Looking out at the ocean, you often see a seemingly infinite series of waves, transporting water from one place to the next. Though waves do cause the surface water to move, the idea that waves are ...

Because corals are attached, taking root to the seafloor, people often think they are plants. Because many corals have hardened surfaces, they are sometimes mistaken as being rocks. However, unlike ...

Test and evaluate the operational use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to expand NOAA Ocean Exploration’s at-sea data collection capabilities From November 2-16, NOAA Ocean Exploration will ...

Last week, the team aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer returned to port after spending a month mapping unexplored areas of the deep ocean. As you might expect, an expedition of that length brings back ...