During ocean expeditions in the Southeast Pacific this year, scientists found an underwater wonderland, including more than 100 potentially new-to-science species. “We […] ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the earth's five oceans. ... Incredible map shows how big the Pacific Ocean is ... the deepest place on earth has a depth of 11,000m.

Challenger Deep is in the Pacific Ocean inside of the Marina Trench. It's just shy of 11,000 meters, ... Scanning a whole area of the seafloor, then, will give you a depth — or bathymetry — map.

They had lobbed depth charges into the sea and recorded the rebounding shock waves to create a map of the ocean floor. Pretty certain they were at the right spot, the bathyscaphe was released.

Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins. As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet.

Oceana.org reports great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean spend about half the year off the California coast and around Guadalupe Island, which is 150 miles off of Baja California, Mexico.

Scientists have discovered that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. These polymetallic nodules, generating electricity like AA ...

A massive research initiative to explore deep-sea creatures brought discoveries to light in the northern Pacific Ocean last year, when scientists filmed and captured three fish at depths never ...