In August 1936, somewhere off the coast, the American military tested aerial bombardment on R-8, a Navy submarine that had ... R-8 sitting upright on the ocean floor. “The sonar data leaves ...

Meanwhile, satellite-based methods provide broad coverage but lack detailed resolution for features smaller than about 1.5 kilometers. These technological constraints have left vast regions of our ...

Piloted by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, it marked mankind’s first true contact with the ocean floor. This record-breaking U.S. Navy-backed mission began with European engineering and postwar ...

Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program High-resolution maps of the ocean floor are vital for many practical uses, from navigating ships and laying submarine cables to detecting ... such as seamounts ...

According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, only 26.1% of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped with high ... ultimately enhancing the effectiveness of anti-submarine ...

Al went on to attend Nuclear Power and Submarine ... commanding the NR-1 (1973–1976), where he played a critical role in the recovery of a Phoenix missile from the ocean floor—an event ...

Designed to be indestructible, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk met a tragic fate in 2000 when an explosion sent it crashing to the ocean floor ... change The #1 burger chain in the ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: This is ... like a submarine with legs like a dinner table on it so it can be propped up on the ocean floor. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

The Sealab structures looked like a submarine with legs and was designed to perch on the ocean floor. Its open hatch allowed divers to enter and exit freely. Water didn't rush in through the hatch ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: This is Commander M ... like kind of a cigar-shaped vessel, like a submarine with legs like a dinner table on it so it can be propped up on ...

The NR-1 was actually more correctly a small US Navy nuclear submarine than a submersible. She displaced about 400 tons, was about 150 feet long with a pressure hull less than 12 feet in diameter ...

Michael D. Carroll is a Newsweek Breaking News Editor based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His focus is reporting live news, U.S. and U.K. politics, and world news with attention on the Middle East.