Deep Sea Mining Finance (DSMF), an obscure company registered in the British Virgin Islands, recently conducted an exploratory mining operation off the coast of New Ireland province in Papua New ...

Dive in and meet some of the most stunning deep-sea animals that MBARI encountered in 2025. This year, our team spotted ultra-black fishes, sinuous siphonophores, curious crabs, spectacular sponges, ...

As the race to explore the world's oceans intensifies, scientists are turning to powerful new battery technologies to overcome one of deep-sea exploration's greatest challenges: how to keep underwater ...

Ocean Discovery League (ODL) has launched the Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals, an ambitious international effort to visually explore 10,000 strategically selected locations across the deep seafloor.

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

The world’s oceans are increasingly becoming an important new frontier in the geopolitical and economic race for critical minerals, with countries fast-tracking plans for deep-sea mining. Meanwhile, ...

New initiative identifies 10,000 target locations to create the first representative visual record of the deep sea. (Saunderstown, RI — April 1, 2026) Ocean Discovery League (ODL) announces the launch ...