My desire to swim with sharks took root in the way of so many unexpected urges before it: while having beers with a close friend. Recounting a weekend in La Jolla, the manicured coastal enclave of ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

Cold Great Lakes waters have preserved thousands of shipwrecks. See haunting underwater photos revealing the eerie wrecks ...

Cold Great Lakes waters have preserved thousands of shipwrecks. See haunting underwater photos revealing the eerie wrecks ...

China's new deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe, or Striver, set a national diving record of 10,909 meters on Tuesday in ...

The waters off the glittering coastlines of Britain's Caribbean territories have long been a mystery. But now scientists on ...

In the crystal-clear waters of the Bahamas, underwater performer and professional dancer Arianda Hafez conducts a ...

National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts tells how diving to surface the stories of sunken slave shipwrecks has changed her life.

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

Deep-sea researchers captured rare footage of a fascinating creature living approximately 62 miles off California's coast. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute observed the bumpy snailfish ...

Jessica Irving has received funding from the National Science Foundation to work with MERMAID. She is a member of the Earthscope Oceans Science Committee and was involved in the research study ...