Project will cable up ocean floor
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Work begins to lay the cable for a $12m observatory that will study the deep waters of the Pacific.
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By Anonymous  Size and shape may predict the survival of coral reefs around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
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An ocean drilling project finds methane ices at much shallower depths than expected.
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Google plans to build a fiber-optic cable under the Pacific Ocean to link its U.S. operations with Asia, according to a report in Communications Day.
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Company is developing a fiber network that will deliver TV and data to homes.
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The world's largest offshore drilling contractor got bigger yesterday when Transocean said it will combine with GlobalSantaFe, creating a company able to drill globally in shallow or ultra-deep waters.
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A renewable energy system built in the Highlands is to be tried out in the sea off Orkney.
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Some of the parties involved with undersea power transmission projects connecting New Jersey to New York are also looking into building a line to carry power from Maine to Boston.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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A nine-day mission that began Monday in the world's only permanent working undersea laboratory is like living in a fishbowl in more ways than one: Anyone with an Internet connection can watch the researchers work and hang out 60 feet below the surface.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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Ice cores drilled from deep beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.
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Repairs on two out of three broken  undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle  East and Asia should be completed by Sunday, while the third  should be fixed by Saturday, cable operators said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Scientists have coaxed a common soil bacteria into strengthening the ground it lives in, raising the prospect of new construction techniques for stabilizing slopes or reducing earthquake damage.
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A new network of sensors will detail how ecological threats to the waterway affect the seacoast.
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Verizon Communications Inc.  and  five Asian partners plan to build an underwater optical cable  between the United States and China to meet rising demand for  high-speed Internet access.
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Four breaks in undersea internet cables have some speculating that terrorists or the U.S. military are to blame. But telecom experts say the pattern is at most a bit suspicious, and probably just business as usual at the bottom of the ocean floor.