More than 10 years ago a fisherman from the Philippines scooped up a giant pearl from the seafloor and kept it under his bed for good luck. Now experts
by Oliver Milman (TheGuardian) The largest migration on Earth is very rarely seen by human eyes, yet it happens every day. Billions of marine
Some really, really smart people at Stanford University have built human-like robot that they hope could one day revolutionize subsea exploration and
Today’s ship photo comes to us from NASA astronaut Scott Kelly who snapped this photo of ships in line through the Suez Canal from the International
A university in the UK is looking to become the first to design, build and sail the world’s first full-sized, fully autonomous unmanned ship
Scientific sonar spots unknown shipwreck, possibly dating to the American Revolution Scanning sonar from a scientific expedition has revealed the remains of a
A team of scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer have mounted a unique crowd-sourced exploration of the largely unknown deep sea off
Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted and updated from gCaptain’s archives. When one thinks of a NASA ship,
A team of scientists aboard the E/V Nautilus got super excited when a large sperm whale decided to check out the ROV Hercules at a depth 598 meters off
A team of researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has discovered a long-lost Japanese battleship that was sunk during WWII with the loss of over
SpaceX founder and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk said the company's Falcon 9 rocket made a hard landing but reached the ocean-going "drone spaceport ship"
Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed that his SpaceX space transport company is currently developing an "autonomous spaceport drone ship" that will act
Researchers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have capture what is being called the best-ever footage of the elusive and nightmarish-looking
Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, according to a new study published by the American Geophysical Union
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center says it has taken delivery of its newest research vessel and the vessel will be put to work
For the first time ever, scientists have used an unmanned aerial vehicle to monitor killer whales in the wild. For the groundbreaking new study, researchers
Scientists have devised a new map of the Earth's seafloor using satellite data, revealing massive underwater scars and thousands of previously uncharted sea
There are a number of ways the world's oceans can scare the crap out of you... and this is definitely one of
Since 2010, the International Space Station has been equipped with a space-based Vessel ID System receiver that allows it to track ships at sea by way of a
Growing to lengths in the 80 to 90-foot range and weighing up to 70+ tons, it’s easy to understand why Fin whales don't often shoot out of the water in a
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