What do a hydrogen bomb, the RMS Titanic, giant tube worms, chemosynthetic macrobacteria, and continental drift all have in common? In Woods Hole, that's an easy one. To hear WHOI scientists talk, it ...

Alvin celebrates its 50th birthday this year. In the past half century, the deep-sea submersible has made more than 4,700 dives all over the world. It has discovered hydrothermal vents, explored the ...

Learn more about the Hadal Trenches and the types of life that thrive in the deep.

The R/V Atlantis Team recovers the Alvin submersible from a deep dive on theScience Verification Expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench and Mid-Cayman Rise. Around the ship,patches of Sargassum algae ...

A key employee with the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic pushed back at a question from a Coast Guard investigator about whether ...

Tropical Storm Alvin formed in the the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, May 29, becoming the first named storm anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere this year. Forecasters with the National Hurricane ...