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The crew aboard NOAA's new research ship was in for a real surprise find: An underwater volcano this fall off the coast of Washington.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch is pleased to announce that its expansion of the experimental Virtual Station system is complete, and 190 coral reef sites are now available.

NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, “America’s Ship for Ocean Exploration,” is on a course to be the only U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge.

Two Russian mini-submarines dove to the bottom of the world's deepest lake to draw attention to its fragile environment on Tuesday July 29. Mir-1 went down to 1,580 metres and Mir-2 went further down to 1,592 metres.

A 12-person research team explore an area near the Florida Middle Grounds 100 to 200 miles off Florida's west coast at depths of 40 to 110 meters. They will study ancient submerged coastlines in the northeastern Gulf to determine where early Americans, known as the Clovis culture, might have lived more than 12,000 years ago when the underwater terrain was dry land.

Scientists at the National Undersea Research Center at UNCW / Aquarius Reef Base, the underwater ocean laboratory in Florida, began their fourth mission of 2008 in June. They are to research how transplanted corals adapt to their new environment.

The Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2, scheduled to launch June 20 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, will continue the critical task of measuring the rising sea levels. This project started in 1992.

The bioSTREAM tidal power conversion system’s design is inspired by the highly efficient propulsion of fast swimming species, such as shark, tuna, and mackerel.

It has often been stated that life depends on the anomalous properties of water. More than 40 properties of water appear to be anomalous in some way or other, and among these is its large heat capacity.