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Deep Sea Dive

NOAA Ocean Today Every Full Moon takes you on a dive to the depths of the...

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Science in a Time of Crisis: Assessing the Impacts

Part 6 of a 6-part series describing WHOI's efforts to understand the scope and...

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Scientists Discuss their Submersible Experience

Scientists talk about the experience of exploring the ocean in this excerpt from...

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Deep Ocean Diversity Slideshow

Deep sea animals have to live in a very cold, dark, and high-pressure environment...

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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

On the deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, ecosystems made up of fish, corals, sea...

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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...

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X-Ray Image of a Tropical Hatchetfish

Tropical hatchetfish (Argyropelecus lychnus), like the one shown in this X-ray...

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ROV Collects Black Corals

The robotic arm of the Jason, a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), collects several...

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Big Red Jellyfish

Marine biologists from MBARI nicknamed this startlingly large jellyfish—which...

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I, Robot, Can Do That

Students describe and contrast three types of underwater robots. Students discuss...

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Call to Arms

Students describe human arm motion, design/construct mechanical arm model that...

Personal Perspectives

Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own

The deep-sea is a vast part of the world’s ocean. Even today, it often surprises...