The US Navy's next frontier is the unexplored seafloor

The U.S. Navy is quite familiar with our oceans, but now it wants to expand its operations to the seafloor. It'll take some time to get it all up and running.
Phys.org

Only 0.001% of deep seafloor has been visually observed in 70 years, roughly equivalent to Rhode Island's area

The study, "How Little We've Seen: A Visual Coverage Estimate of the Deep Seafloor," is the first to document that, in decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the ...
Phys.org

Ocean Discovery League launches global strategy to double deep seafloor observations

Ocean Discovery League (ODL) has launched the Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals, an ambitious international effort to visually explore 10,000 strategically selected locations across the deep seafloor.
Yahoo Finance

Only 0.001% of the Deep Seafloor Visually Observed in Seventy Years, Revealing Gaps and Bias in Ocean Exploration

SAUNDERSTOWN, R.I., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a groundbreaking study published today in Science Advances, researchers from Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule fraction of the deep ...
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America's first deep-sea mining lease targets American Samoa's uncharted seafloor

Deep-sea mining American Samoa: NOAA's Okeanos Explorer is mapping the same federal seafloor that BOEM plans to auction November 19, 2026, in America's first commercial deep-sea mining lease sale. An ...
Mongabay

Only a tiny % of the deep seafloor has ever been visually observed: Study

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has ever been captured by photo or video images, a new study finds. That which has been captured is “biased” and ...
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American Ocean Minerals Highlights Moana Minerals AUV Survey Capturing More Than 600,000 Seafloor Images in the Cook Islands

Ten-day Armada 8605 campaign adds high-resolution photographic, sonar, and environmental data to Moana Minerals' EL3 environmental baseline program Three HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicles ("AUVs") ...
University of Delaware

Deep sea exploration

From the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment led the charge of ...
NOAA

Mapping the Seafloor for Critical Mineral Resources

Polymetallic nodules, such as those shown here, can occur on the ocean floor and are of interest for the critical minerals they contain. Credit: NOAA. NOAA maps the seafloor to develop and update ...
Mongabay

Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can pack more than 25 times the global warming punch of carbon dioxide, and atmospheric methane emissions ...
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Only 0.001% of the deep seafloor visually observed in seventy years, revealing gaps and bias in ocean exploration and global biodiversity understanding

(Saunderstown, RI — May 7, 2025) In a groundbreaking study published today in Science Advances, researchers from Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has ...