NYUPS is proud to present “20,000 Bytes Under The Sea”, a special presentation by legendary National Geographic photographer and IMAX filmmaker, Emory Kristof
The federal government took its final step late yesterday to protect sensitive deepwater canyons that lie along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Virginia
An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea...
Asia Dive Expo 2009 (ADEX) will be held in conjunction with Boat Asia 2009. Both events will be held from 23 to 26 April, 2009 at the world-class Marina at Keppel Bay
New calculations made by marine chemists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) suggest that low-oxygen "dead zones" in the ocean could expand significantly over the next century
An in depth look at Dr. Chris German's science as he discusses what is found around deep sea vents and seeps in part 2 of Rick Morris's short film, Chess Game.
The BLUE Ocean Film Festival is a global film festival and conservation summit for underwater filmmakers and marine researchers. The event will be held June 11-14th in Savannah, Georgia.
Dr. Chris German of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute discusses his research to find deep ocean vents and seeps in part 1 of Chess Game a movie by DPG video editor Rick Morris
Creating a deep-sea underwater observatory may seem like science fiction, but researchers and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing have made it a reality
As our readers know, our newest member to the DPG team is Rick Morris, from the Census of Marine life. It seems like everywhere we turn now, CoML is releasing information and images of the truly...
Researchers say they have figured out why sea turtles that normally feed and breed in shallow water or on land will, very rarely, go deep sea diving: the reptiles are on reconnaissance.
A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean
Scientists from Durham University will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust
Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing.
We had the honor and privilege of being invited by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes to attend the 104th Explorers Club Annual Dinner. The prestigious event is held each year at the Waldorf Astoria...
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council on Friday approved plans that will ban deep sea bottom trawling from 23,000 square miles of coral habitat
We lost one of the true pioneers in diving Ralph White. He was an innovator, very experienced and a leader. White combined his love for adventure and cinematography.
Scientists aboard the research vessel, Southern Surveyor, return to Hobart today with a collection of coral samples and photographs taken in the Southern Ocean at greater depths than ever before
Working aboard the Royal Research Ship Discovery, Dr. Nikki King was part of a team on the Benthic Crozet project, a research initiative investigating biodiversity off the Crozet Islands, a small...
Destructive fishing has many critics, with the newest being an animated fish puppet emerging from an icebox to push the virtues of sustainably caught seafood
A team of international scientists is hoping to unlock some of the secrets of the deep Southern Ocean, and the effects of climate change, using a state-of-the-art, unmanned submersible
Thirty years ago, scientists exploring the depths of the ocean came across jets of hot water, spewing from the sea floor, that hauled up flecks of gold and other minerals from Earth's interior and...
The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current Biology
Researchers fresh from an eight-week scientific drilling expedition off the Pacific coast of Japan today reported their discovery of strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region notorious...
Sharks are more spread out in the winter waters of the Gulf of Mexico, so the 24-hour expedition was a gamble.
The team of scientists set out on a boat with four satellite transmitter tags in...
New deep-sea images disprove doctrine
Thousands of white crabs grazing on an extensive mussel bed: Up to now such high biomasses in the deep sea were only known from hot vents. Now scientists...
A ten-week expedition to the Lazarev Sea and the eastern part of the Weddell Sea opens this year's Antarctic research season of the German research vessel Polarstern. On the evening of November 28,...
THEY may sound like wops, thwops, grunts, moans and squeaks to the human ear, but they could actually be complex conversations between remarkable ocean mammals.
Thousands of hours of humpback...
AS major fishing nations gather today to determine the future of the Northwest Atlantic, members of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) are calling upon states to implement the United...
Did the great flood of Noahus generation really occur thousands of years ago" Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami" Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain...
The deep sea is often thought of as a tranquil, benign environment - but a study led by a scientist at The Australian National University shows that the ocean depths are an extremely dynamic...
The first giant squid ever captured intact in Italian waters has researchers buzzing about finally being able to learn more about the rare marine animal.
The giant squid, known as architeuthis,...
With a fearsome grin fit for a movie monster, this viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world's most remote locations.
An international team of 31 researchers found this...
Some new waves, pun intended, are being generated this week concerning the meridional overturning circulation (MOC). You are already familiar with the MOC as the ocean conveyor belt. To refresh...
More than a mile beneath the Atlantic's surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust...
Geologists have discovered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, providing more evidence that life may have originated on the bottom of the ocean.
The ancient black smoker...
From May 18 to June 1 we invested two weeks between Malpelo (off Colombia) and Cocos islands (Off Costa Rica) both are about 250 miles west off the coast of Central America on board the superb...
There seems to be some inherent irony in an actress speaking against bottom trawling who stared in three movies killing aliens based on deep-sea isopods*. That stated, I welcome Sigourney Weaver's...
Using Britain's ISIS robot submarine - a van-sized bundle of high-technology - researchers are for the first time able to view previously hidden features up to 5km (three miles) deep in the Nazare...
The New York Times has a review and slideshow of a very interesting, very new, and very beautiful science-related coffee table book. It's called The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss....
The research vessel, Polarstern leaves Bremerhaven for its 22nd Arctic expedition with a new shine, to begin its first work in the International polar year.
Bremerhaven, 24 May 2007. With a new...
Harold E. Froehlich, who designed a deep-sea vessel used to explore the wreckage of the Titanic and search for ocean life forms, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 84.
He had cancer and...
A new species of sea anemone has been found in the carcass of a whale that sunk to the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey, California, marking the first discovery of one of these filter-feeding...
On the strength of its Aqualtus Washing Machine "Underwater World" spot, Leo Burnett Italia, Milan, won the Grand Clio in the TV/cinema competition at the 48th annual International Clio...
So when I am down in a submersible, I worry about protection. What happens if I accidentally drop my USB flash drive out the window at 600 feet down? What if I am scuba diving and I need 8GB of...
Fish are fattening up faster near the Pacific's surface, which is warming, while species in the deep sea are growing more slowly as that water cools, a new study says.
The shallow-living fish...
The National Geographic Channel is sending a team to the Philippines to make a documentary on species endemic in the country's deep seas, according to US Ambassador Kristie Kenney.
"They're...
Changes in ocean temperature have altered the growth rates of commercially harvested fish over the past century, according to a new study published in this week's early online edition of the...
A theory suggests a giant meteorite falling on Earth 65 million years ago and killing all dinosaurs. Russian scientists have found traces of this meteorite. During a marine expedition, organized by...
The 31st annual Beneath the Sea show kicked off this weekend to another bustling and energetic crowd. As always, DivePhotoGuide was there to cover the show from a photographers and videographers...
BLOOMING spectacularly beneath the surface of the ocean, these striking sea creatures look like they'd be at home in any tropical paradise.
But these wonders of the natural world are not to be...
Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where the Earth's crust seems to be missing entirely. Instead, the mantle - the...
This rare sighting of a living frilled shark in such shallow waters was firstly reported to marine park scientists by a fisherman. The incredible video of the prehistoric shark was definitely very...
Scientists added several species of deep sea sharks on Thursday to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) endangered Red List due to overfishing.
At a meeting in Oxford, England, the...
Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely threatened by over-fishing and the species' ability to recover is constrained by the fishes' long lifespans and low...
At a 9 am press conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (AAAS) on February 18th, an international team of leading fisheries economists, biologists, and...
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the highly acclaimed IMAX hit motion picture adventure Deep Sea 3D has reached another box office milestone, surpassing $30 million...
Attempts by the UN to protect the world's deep-sea habitats have been thwarted by Iceland's determination to ignore the scientific evidence in pursuit of its own short-term goals. These fragile,...
SEASPACE 2007 will feature the IMAX 3D movie Deep Sea 3D. This uniquely creative film, directed by renowned underwater cinematographers Howard and Michele Hall, includes narration by Johnny Depp...
They said it couldn't be done Congratulations and thank you to the thousands of you who helped make deep-sea coral research and protection the law of the land (and the sea).
Late Friday...
A heat-busting bug has been found that can create usable nitrogen at the extreme temperature of 92 A‚A°C - breaking the old record by 28 A‚A°C.
The finding is more than a gee-whiz record...
Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined. At one site, nearly 2 miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that...
Marine creatures are thriving by a record hot volcanic vent in the Atlantic and in dark waters under thick Antarctic ice, boosting theories that planets other than Earth are suitable for life,...
Builder's Pencil, which spans 180,000 square meters off New Zealand's eastern coast, is one of the largest seep sites in the world. Recently, a joint US/New Zealand research team studying the area...
An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand's east...
Rare footage of marine creatures putting on deep sea 'lightshows' on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean has been captured by scientists using the latest technology.
So many animals were squirting...
John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of Shadow Divers and Deep Sea Detectives fame are proud to announce the release of the second issue of their DVD Magazine, Dive Portal. Issue 2 is set to commence...
These days the UN General Assembly is discussing the adoption of a declaration calling for an immediate moratorium on deep-sea bottom trawl fishing on the high seas, at least until legally-binding...
Four captive-bred green sea turtles were scheduled for a first experience of the deep sea yesterday.
The 2-year-old animals were brought on board the NCL Pride of Hawai'i, which was scheduled to...
A few years ago, chemical analyses of deep sea muds that used a new X-ray technology were able to help explain why the Classic Mayan civilization collapsed more than a thousand years ago. At the...
Sept 8th-9th, 2006 - Mark your calendars for this event. Bring your spouse! Michigan's first Underwater Tourism Summit at the Waterfront Conference Center will include John Chatterton and Richie...
A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that damage deep sea life, Conservation...
Even the coldest, darkest depths of the world's oceans can't escape the harmful effects of global warming -- and that includes deep-sea corals, local researchers have found...
The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious.
New...
Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to perform scientific missions ranging from monitoring climate change to mapping the...
Deep Sea 3D is a 40 minute total immersion into the underwater world. With charismatic stars including Green Turtles, Giant Pacific Octopus, Mola mola, Mantas, sharks and even a Bowhead Whale, the...
For centuries scientists have thought of deep-sea pelagic fish as nomadic wanderers, in part because information about them was so limited. However, new results from the ongoing Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
Photos of ancient coral and other deep-sea species show how rare marine life is being destroyed by bottom trawling, says the environmental group Greenpeace.
The organisation has what it calls...
Antarctic researchers have recorded a novel behavior in krill that may help regulate greenhouse gases. Antarctic krill, one of the largest animal resources on Earth, parachute into the deeper...
Dive in beginning March 3rd when Deep Sea 3D debuts at select IMAX, IMAX 3D and IMAX Dome theatres. Through the magic of IMAX 3D technology, audiences will be transported below the ocean surface to...
Three ecologically-important deep sea areas have been protected off the waters of Italy, Cyprus and Egypt, following a recent decision by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean...
The Sport Diver magazine - a National Geographic affiliate - featured, in its December issue, the story of a Lebanese diver who saved an endangered shark in Mauritius. Naji Cherabieh, a scuba diver...
The two Marks and the rest of the crew from the History Channel's popular TV series "Weird U.S." have discovered Bonne Terre Mine. Show hosts Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman will be in Bonne...
The first deep sea red-light district -- glowing appendages on a newly discovered jellyfish relative -- appear to flash their come-hither message to lure prey.
Jellyfish and other types of sea...
As part of the 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, to be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 9 aˆ“ 14th July 2006, a flagship underwater image and video competition...
As part of the 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, to be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 9 aˆ“ 14th July 2006, a flagship underwater image and video competition...
