The U.S. Department of the Interior said Tuesday that it’s beginning the process of selling deep-sea mining leases after a request from startup Impossible Metals (previously Impossible Mining).

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor off the coast of American Samoa. The Interior Department announced late ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on the floor admiring a row of trays. One contains a jet-black, rubble-like ...

With the help of advanced deep-sea imaging technology, researchers were able to capture high-quality images of the submarine’s wreckage, discovered more than 1,300 feet under the ocean’s ...

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of the U.S. Navy submarine USS F-1, lost at sea in an accident on December ...

Swatch unveils its new watch collection including five colorways. The watches are made for deep-sea exploration, built from sustainable materials with futuristic accents. Swatch is preparing for ...

US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at advancing the deep-sea mining industry. This directive mandates the US government to accelerate the review of seabed mining ...

Top view of the new octopus species (Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis) Cindy Bessey / CSIRO The Carnarvon flapjack is a type of deep-sea dwelling “dumbo” octopus, so nicknamed because the ear ...

Specifically, at an UNCLOS conference in 1983, the United States asserted that the treaty’s “deep sea-bed mining regime…is purely contractual in character” and that seabed mining “is a ...

He brings over 15 years of exploration and production experience, as both an investor and operator, along with deep relationships across the US.” The investor group, which TMC described as ...