Chris Linder Since it took to the water in 1964, the Alvin submersible has completed more than 4,600 dives, many historic, including surveying the Titanic wreckage and discovering new wildlife ...

Turkish scientists are set to explore the depths of oceans and seas for clues about life in space through the Middle Eastern ...

Project aims to search for signs of life in deep space by studying underwater hydrothermal vents, which resemble potential ...

Brett Baker (right) and pilot Jefferson Grau inside the deep-sea submersible Alvin during a dive in the Guaymas Basin in November 2018. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

The R/V Atlantis Team recovers the Alvin submersible from a deep dive on theScience Verification Expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench and Mid-Cayman Rise. Around the ship,patches of Sargassum ...

It was captured by cameras onboard a three-person research submersible called Alvin and the then newly developed remotely operated vehicle named Jason Jr. The latter was able to penetrate the ...

Marine geologist Robert Ballard (b. 1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands ...

Miles below the surface of the ocean, it’s pitch-black, cold and empty. Only the highly adapted and most unique creatures on Earth can survive there, and even then, much of their lives are a mystery.

The submersible Alvin about 8,500 feet down, studying seafloor volcanoes and eruptions. (c) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with thanks to Daniel Fornari – WHOI-MISO Facility (www.whoi.edu ...