It is cold, dark and cramped. But Lisa Levin will be beaming later this month when she climbs inside a tiny submersible called Alvin and descends 3 miles into the unforgiving waters off Alaska. The UC ...

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 ...

It is cold, dark and cramped. But Lisa Levin will be beaming later this month when she climbs inside a tiny submersible called Alvin and descends three miles into the unforgiving waters off Alaska.

Let’s begin with the story of a beloved beard, sacrificed to science. In February 2020, I sat in a safety briefing for the DSV Alvin submersible with two proudly bewhiskered deep-sea scientists who ...

As the lead pilot for the deep-sea submersible Alvin, Falmouth resident Bruce Strickrott already has a claim to fame. He's one of just 45 people who've driven the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s sad that one of the victims of the deep diving submersible Titan was only 19 years old. If he had wanted a real adventure, someone noted, he should have stayed on dry land and lived his ordinary ...

Woods Hole, MA — Just like us, corals breathe in oxygen and eat organic carbon. And just like us, as a byproduct of converting energy and oxygen in the body, corals produce reactive oxygen species ...

A team of 23 researchers spent two and a half weeks at sea on the research vessel Atlantis exploring the deep sea in the Western Aleutians. They left Dutch Harbor June 15, and traveled as far west as ...