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Fire fighting ships surround the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig, shooting water at it to put out the flames.
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Deepwater Horizon Fire

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A "dumbo" octopus is captured by an ROV.
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Capturing a Deep-Sea Octopod

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Special ships called ‘icebreakers’ are needed to access some areas of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
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Bow of an Icebreaker

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Shrimp in a net.
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Shrimp Catch

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a shark and a group of pilot fish with black and white stripes
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Oceanic Whitetip Shark and Pilot Fish

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The face of a serpent eel pokes up from beneath the sand.
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Sea Serpent

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a orange spotted jellyfish
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Orange Spotted Jellyfish

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a ships sets a purse seine.
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Purse Seine

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a succulent plant with small purple flowers in sand
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Sea Purslane

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Dredges used to catch king scallops in the U.K. 
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A Scallop Dredge in the UK

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Hatchetfish photographed moments after being pulled from the deep sea in the Oozeki net trawl. These small, silvery fish have large eyes to collect any sunlight that reaches the deep sea. Even in the deep, they are not immune to human impacts; the research
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Hatchetfish

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Scientists use satellite images of the ocean to estimate chlorophyll concentrations in the water. You can see the yellow swirls of phytoplankton concentrated at the sea surface in this image.
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Satellite Image of Chlorophyll Concentration

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