When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...
With 3000m mountains right next to 1000m deep sea, Toyama Prefecture is a different world when viewed 'vertically'When you hear the name Toyama Prefecture, what comes to mind?Tateyama, Kurobe Dam, ...
Tens of thousands of underwater mountains dot the ocean floor around the world. A few break the surface, such as the Hawaiian ...
Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become islands). Scientists estimate that there are some 100,000 ...
When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...
The elevation of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, is 3,776m. The deepest part of Suruga Bay, which spreads out just to the ...
Basketwork eels gathering in extraordinary numbers around Patience Seamount, south of Tasmania, in footage captured in 2007. (CSIRO) Every year, hundreds of meters below the waves in the cold, dark ...
Sonar, deep-sea cameras and a few caught fish produced the first count of the only known spawning gathering of deep-sea eels: ...
When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...
When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth’s oceans are ...
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