Six people have died after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, according to local authorities. At least nine others were injured and emergency crews ...

Six people died on Thursday, two of them minors, when a tourist submarine carrying dozens of Russian visitors sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast near a major resort town. Egyptian state media put ...

OceanX’s support, which included mapping of deep-sea coral reefs and the tagging of megafauna, proved instrumental in bolstering the researchers’ decade-long campaign. ‘All of that data was shared, ...

How deep does the ocean go ... The continental shelf sometimes extends for hundreds of miles out to sea. Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these ...

Here, an octopus rests on the seafloor 1150 metres deep, in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica. A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230m deep. "Sponges can grow ...

Here, we identify seasonal changes in fish chorusing activity using passive acoustic monitoring, in the central Red Sea mesophotic and adjacent shallow coral reef zones ... The presence of choruses in ...

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"Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press release to accompany the publication of the research. Environmentalists ...

The West Philippine Sea has a rich biodiversity that contributes around 27% of the country’s commercial fisheries production and around 30% of the nation’s coral reefs. The region, however, is now ...

But the study found depressions that went more than 200 m deep throughout the Farasan Bank coral reef system. "This research highlights the significance of the Red Sea as a natural laboratory for ...