Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) is an intergovernmental body that regulates fishing across the vast international waters of the South Pacific Ocean. At a meeting ...
(a) Ages of Hemler, Vlinder, Pako, Ioah, and Il’ichev seamount lavas in the Magellan seamount area and the predicted ages of the Ratotonga (white dashed outline) and Samoa (yellow solid outline) ...
SIDNEY, BC, July 5, 2018 /CNW/ - Seamounts are underwater mountains that are home to an abundance of marine species, from cold-water corals and sponges to Bocaccio and killer whales. These ecosystems ...
Reach Newswire – 3 December 2025 – OceanX and Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) have begun a ...
MOSS LANDING, CA — Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast ...
Far below the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies Axial Seamount, the most active underwater volcano in ...
ABSTRACT: It has been suggested that seamounts hold higher abundances of some ‘visiting’ animals, such as tuna, sharks, billfishes, marine mammals, sea-turtles and even seabirds, but this has been ...