The co-founder and former CEO of OceanGate, the deep sea exploration company whose submersible notoriously imploded on a dive to the Titanic wreck last year, is heading back to the bottom of the ocean ...

For people with "thalassophobia," or the fear of deep bodies of water, blue holes are something out of a nightmare. These massive vertical caves open up in the shallow waters near coastlines, but blue ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — More than a year after the tragic implosion of the OceanGate submersible, the company’s co-founder is planning on another deep dive into the unknown, this time into a “virtually ...

For thousands of years these underwater sinkholes remained hidden beneath the ocean. Known today as blue holes, they reveal entire ecosystems inside their depths. Sharks, reef fish, and countless ...

A diver’s view looking up to the opening of the seafloor hole known as Amberjack Hole, which was explored last year. Image courtesy of Mote Marine Laboratory/AJ Gonzales Tales of the ocean swallowing ...

A blue hole off the coast of Mexico has been found to be the deepest underwater sinkhole in the world. The Taam Ja' Blue Hole, which was first discovered in 2021, was originally thought to be 900 feet ...

They were rolling in the deep. Scientists have identified what could potentially be the “deepest known blue hole” in the world, extending so far down that the bottom has not yet been reached.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- A team of scientists is gearing up to explore a mysterious "blue hole" off the Gulf Coast of Florida. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration described blue holes as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Sinkholes are natural depressions that form when rock ...