How deep does the ocean go ... But the size of the shelf and how quickly it descends toward the deepest parts of the ocean, known as the abyssal plain, varies from place to place.

A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a mechanic from Zhejiang University, all in China, have ...

Beneath the ocean ... the deepest parts of the ocean, including the Mariana Trench. Researchers from institutions across ...

in much deeper parts of the ocean. Such metals are sought-after for use in renewable energy devices and batteries, for example. But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean ... where there might be mineral deposits in the oceans. Deep-ocean study has since been carried out mostly by biologists ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass ... that are happening on the surface or in the upper parts of the ocean are affecting the ocean at those depths ...