Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and unlocked one of the most significant scientific revolutions of the century.

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...

This bathymetric (depth) data covers roughly 300,000 sq km - an area equivalent to Italy. This is being donated to the international project that seeks to chart the entire global ocean floor by 2030.

The exploration took place at a depth of 2,515 metres across the eastern Pacific Ocean floor. “The extent of the subseafloor cavities—horizontally and how deep they reach—is not known yet ...