OCALA, Fla. (AP) – A fishing trip to Orange Springs in 1960 introduced Alvin Hendrix to a hobby that would take him on underwater treasure hunts for the next 40 years. Hendrix and a friend were ...

About 10 miles off the Santa Barbara coast, at the bottom of the Santa Barbara Channel, a series of impressive landmarks rise from the sea floor. They’ve been there for 40,000 years, but have remained ...

Black smoke appears to rise from chimney-like formations of the hottest and deepest known hydrothermal vents on Earth. Over the summer, Anna Michel was able to see them for herself — a few miles ...

In a much-needed win for the marine environment, a never-before-seen deep-sea reef featuring coral thousands of years old and “teeming with life” has been discovered in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer is a one-man micro-epic puppet show that melds technology and multimedia into a touching story of enduring love and the end of the world for adults ...

In 1977, the exploration vessel Alvin dove 2,500 meters below the ocean waves enabling geologists to observe directly, for the very first time, the strange lifeforms that swarm around the super-hot ...

Director Rob Marshall knew from the outset that the hardest part of his live-action reimagining of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” would be pulling off the Oscar-winning “Under the Sea” Caribbean ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Fascinated by Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” as a ...

About 10 miles off the Santa Barbara coast, at the bottom of the Santa Barbara Channel, a series of impressive landmarks rise from the sea floor. They've been there for about 40,000 years, but they've ...