In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the Barents Sea. As he peered at a sonar screen, he saw something strange—a ...

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new ...

Experience the intense life aboard Germany’s most advanced deep-sea trawler, a 100-meter floating seafood processing plant designed to haul and process tons of black halibut in harsh North Atlantic ...

Days spent adrift in the vast ocean, amid rolling waves and roaring winds – this is the life for many deep-sea fishermen. Cut off from the routines of land, they cast massive nets into the water and ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, much of the deep-sea ...