Meet the deepest fish in the sea: The Mariana snailfish, identified with UW’s help They look like ghosts of the abyss, but the wispy, pinkish-white, smooth-skinned creatures at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s… Read More
Scientists get robots ready to study Antarctic ice shelves from below, with $2M boost from Paul Allen Researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University are getting ready for an unprecedented months-long campaign to study Antarctica’s… Read More
Inside the submarine factory: OceanGate builds a craft to visit the Titanic shipwreck, again and again EVERETT, Wash. — Today it looks like an eight-foot-long section of culvert pipe, but in just a couple of months, the… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen partners with NOAA to explore climate changes in deep ocean water As we’re breaking records for high temperatures around the globe and watching forest fires blaze across the Northwest, you can… Read More
OceanGate hits big milestone in effort to build a submersible for trips to the Titanic OceanGate says it’s completed assembly of the core pressure vessel for its Cyclops 2 submersible vehicle, which is due to… Read More
OceanGate reveals plan to send scientists (and tourists) to Titanic shipwreck in 2018 OceanGate Expeditions says it’s planning the first crewed scientific expedition to study the wreck of the RMS Titanic in more… Read More
Underwater volcano’s rumblings point the way to improved eruption predictions An underwater seismic network pioneered by the University of Washington and other institutions is revealing how thousands of tiny shocks… Read More
OceanGate starts building submersible craft that can take crews 13,000 feet deep The company that helped map the wreck of the Andrea Doria is moving forward with the construction of a submersible… Read More
OceanGate’s explorers map the Andrea Doria, the Mount Everest of shipwrecks A crew of undersea explorers from Everett, Wash., has gotten the best look in decades at the Andrea Doria, an Italian… Read More
Ocean Observatories Initiative ramps up real-time views of undersea wonders The National Science Foundation and its partners, including the University of Washington, are showing off the real-time data streams from… Read More
Scientists trace starfish die-off to virus plus warmer seas, but mysteries remain The mass die-off of starfish off the West Coast is becoming a little less mysterious: Scientists say the starfish, also… Read More
XPRIZE unveils $7 million contest for ocean discovery, with bonus for sniffing out pollution The latest high-tech competition from XPRIZE is offering $7 million to promote new ways to map our planet’s final frontier:… Read More
