In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly gives way to a near vertical shaft of vast darkness – an ocean sinkhole almost ...

A blue hole in the sea near Mexico is so deep that humans have yet to reach its bottom. It also has certain conditions that ...

Far below the turquoise surface of the Caribbean, an almost perfectly circular patch of dark water drops away so sharply that ...

Almost one decade of recorded data retrieved from deep coral reef dives reveals some of the first evidence of that climate ...

In 2000, Russian-Israeli Yuri Lipski bravely ventured into the Blue Hole, huge marine cavern, off Egypt's coast but he soon ...

Yuri Lipski, a Russian-Israeli scuba diver, plunged into the Blue Hole in the Red Sea off Egypt's coastline and never ...

Far from the open ocean trenches, divers in a shallow Mexican bay have found a vertical portal into the unknown. The Taam Ja’ Blue Hole plunges so far beneath Chetumal Bay that scientists have not yet ...

Yuri Lipski's helmet camera captured his final moments at Egypt's Blue Hole in 2000 after he declined expert warnings about ...

Mexico’s Tam Ja Blue Hole has been confirmed as the world’s deepest, reaching at least 1,380 feet. Scroll down to know what ...

Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

Experts report that deep ocean heat fueled by climate change is making Category 6- level hurricanes increasingly possible.

Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton blooms at the ocean surface. Phytoplankton are microscopic, plant-like ...