Explore our final frontier! 99.999% of the deep seafloor remains unseen. #DeepSea #OceanExploration #SaveOurSeas

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5387502/deep-seafloor-ocean-mapped-rhode-island

🚢 Happy Sunday from our research icebreaker Polarstern, which is currently ploughing through the 🧊 ice for our annual sampling campaign at HAUSGARTEN observatory to assess the impact of #ClimateChange in the #Arctic #DeepSea 🦑.
(🎥 @awi) @association

🌊 Titan’s tragedy could have been prevented? Discover the 5 AI systems that might have changed deep-sea safety forever. Could code protect our future explorers?
🚀 Read now: https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/what-titans-implosion-teaches-us-about-the-future-of-ai-at-sea-1e6b680726cd
#AISafety #DeepSea #OceanTech #Submersibles

https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/what-titans-implosion-teaches-us-about-the-future-of-ai-at-sea-1e6b680726cd

#NewSpecies!
New deep sea isopod from northwest #pacific just came in:

Haploniscus erebus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/13D95A2E-8536-59AC-950D-7E6D636BAF09
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.137663
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #HaploniscusErebus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #isopods #deepsea

What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea

https://tube.blueben.net/w/r6g42vkezKgsCz9LAsP8FT

Today's random BBC news headline: "Scientists discover new species of deep-sea fish with bioluminescent features." #science #discovery #deepsea

New bacterial genome announcement from our team:

Draft genome sequence of Desulfobacterota strain M19, a mesophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mra.00295-25

This new bacterium was found on a #DeepSea hydrothermal vent, 1663m deep under the Atlantic ocean surface. It can grow by both "eating" and "breathing" a single chemical—pure elemental sulfur.

#Bacteria #Microbes #Genomics #HydrothermalVents #Extremophiles

#UN Secretary General issues strong call for precaution during opening speech at #UNOC3 when stating “The #DeepSea cannot become the Wild West”. OceanCare urges a global moratorium on deep-sea mining to protect one of Earth’s last untouched ecosystems. #DefendTheDeep

Darkening Of The Global Ocean
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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70227 <-- shared paper
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[a little outside of ‘my usual’, but fascinating (and alarming, frankly…)]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #marine #ocean #photic #photiczone #ecology #change #sunlight #moonlight #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #darkening #habitat #biogeochemical #penetration #MODIS #remotesensing #earthobservation #satellite #light #coast #deepsea #openocean #nutrient #sediment #currents #circulation #productivity #fisheries #surface #ecology #ecosystems #impacts #humanimpacts

“Some called it wicked, but she called it love. Unfortunately, her loves were rather short-lived.”

Today's #Mermay prompt, #Wicked, fits so well with my little Mermay's taste for sailors (which she happened to develop 2 years ago, around the prompt #Sailor) that I just couldn't resist...

https://www.irisluckhaus.de/mermay-wicked/

#mermay2025 #mermay2025day29 #mermay2025wicked #mermaid #goldfish #sailor #shipwreck #love #deepsea #thelittlemermaid #digitalart #huntress #procreateart @Curator

Together for the Ocean

https://for-the-ocean.org/

#deepsea

Supergiant crustaceans could live across half the deep-sea floor

https://lemm.ee/post/64990372

Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of #deepsea #mining in international waters
Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.
On April 24, President Trump signed an #executiveorder promoting #deepseamining in the US and international waters, touting the industry’s potential to boost the country’s economic growth and national security.
Thirty-three countries are also calling for a moratorium or outright ban on deep-sea mining.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/experts-alarmed-over-trumps-promotion-of-deep-sea-mining-in-international-waters/

Rare giant "shrimp" is more widespread than previously believed, new findings reveal https://phys.org/news/2025-05-rare-giant-shrimp-widespread-previously.html

The supergiant #amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241635

"#Amphipods like A. gigantea are #shrimp-like #crustaceans known for their narrow frames and a signature hump-backed curl in their posture. They roam the #DeepSea, from the abyssal depths (3,000–6,000 m) to beyond hadal zones (>6,000 m)"

New species of octopus discovered in a deep-sea canyon https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025/May/New-species-of-octopus-discovered-in-a-deep-sea-canyon

"The Carnarvon Flapjack #Octopus is a gelatinous #DeepSea octopus that grows to around 4 centimetres diameter... It's the 10th and latest #NewSpecies to be described from specimens collected during a 2022 voyage by RV Investigator... The #FlapjackOctopus is a deep-sea shape shifter with the ability to flatten its body to resemble a pancake—or flapjack—or to pull itself up to look like a tiny gelatinous umbrella."

This is my favorite exhibit at the aquarium: Into the Deep. It's special because it's also the reason why I now work at the aquarium.

I have a habit of listening to random podcasts on topics I don't know anything about, and somehow when I was job-searching last year I heard a lot of 'Monterey Bay Aquarium and MBARI and deep sea research' podcasts. With marine scientists and engineers who built the ships and tools etc.

I was like 'I want to work somewhere like that!" Looked it up, and there was a job for literally the thing that I do. At my onsite job interview, I touched a giant isopod, and I was like 'this is better than any other job I can get. I can touch a giant isopod everyday if I want.'

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/developing-into-the-deep

#Marine #Science #DeepSea

New Coral Gardens and Hydrothermal Vents Found in the Icy Depths of the Remote South Sandwich Islands https://schmidtocean.org/new-coral-gardens-hydrothermal-vents-found-south-sandwich-islands/

"recent #DeepSea expedition observed thriving polar ecosystems, discovered new #HydrothermalVents, coral gardens, and many suspected #NewSpecies... #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s RV #FalkorToo explored the #SouthSandwichIslands, including one of the coldest and most isolated submarine trenches on the planet, and also found evidence of explosive volcanism."

#NewSpecies!
New deep-sea coral from the #pacific just came in:

Granulogorgia amoebosquama

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F8C305-2859-FFD2-FF45-FB2C1DC3FC22
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.2.3
#Zootaxa #GranulogorgiaAmoebosquama

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #corals #deepsea

New Footage Shows Mysterious Deep-Sea Anemone 3 Miles Below the Surface https://petapixel.com/2025/05/14/new-footage-shows-mysterious-deep-sea-anemone-3-miles-below-the-surface/ #nationaloceanographycenter #porcupineabyssalplain #iosactisvagabunda #timelapse #creature #seafloor #anemone #animals #deepsea #science #ocean #News

@gutenberg_org But crazy humans already want to destroy these fragile habitats by #deepSea #mining ... this must stop. We must protect this #biodiversity.

#ecology #anthropocene #ocean