World's first private icebreaker is launched:

07-15-2020 • https://www.dailymail.co.uk By RYAN FAHEY

£79.5m vessel with its own deep-sea submarine is available to charter for £665,000 per week after it was commissioned by Russian billionaire

U-Boat Worx launches lightest submersible ever built

04-18-2020 • https://newatlas.com by Paul Ridden

Dutch submersible maker U-Boat Worx has pumped out a number of underwater explorers since launching in 2005, and has now unveiled what's claimed to be the lightest manned submersible ever built.

Treasure Fever

01-20-2020 • https://www.hakaimagazine.com, by Jill Neimark

The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

Tesla Cybertruck 'Boat Mode' grants Elon Musk's amphibious car dreams in fan-made render

12-11-2019 • Teslarati

A three-dimensional rendering of the Tesla Cybertruck floating in the ocean has emerged on Instagram showing a man in the truck's "vault", enjoying a day on the water in a futuristic car-boat.

Uber partners to launch scUber, the world's first rideshare submarine

05-26-2019 • Keloland

Uber's newest rideshare option will take you down under ... to the Great Barrier Reef! Here's a look at "scUber." The company says its the world's very first rideshare submarine.

Great danger: Divers spot the world's largest ever recorded great white shark - 2.5 ton 'Dee

01-19-2019 • https://www.dailymail.co.uk By George Martin

-feasting on a dead whale in Hawaii and JUMP IN to take photos

China Has Radio Antenna to Talk to Submarines and It Covers Five Times Area of NY City

01-02-2019 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang

China has built a giant radio antenna that uses five times the area of New York City. It will be used to communicate with submarines.

Plan to find and explore Ocean Worlds and search for life

11-07-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang

The NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds (ROW) group has a plan for exploring the ocean worlds in our solar system.

Ancient Greek vessel found in Black Sea is world's oldest intact shipwreck

10-23-2018 • https://newatlas.com by Ben Coxworth

For three years, an international team of scientists surveyed the floor of the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. Now, radiocarbon tests have confirmed that the remains of an ancient ship discovered late last year date from 400BC, officially makin

Google to string undersea cable from France to Virginia

07-20-2018 • yahoo.com By AP

Google says it will string a trans-Atlantic cable from France to Virginia.

Student designs and builds underwater jetpack, aims to start production in 2019

07-13-2018 • newatlas.com By Paul Ridden

The UK's Archie O'Brien had a dream of zipping below the waters off Iceland or swimming with dolphins off the coast of Bora Bora.

Amazing discovery on the seabed:

06-30-2018 • foxnews.com By James Rogers

Space treasure map leads to mysterious shipwreck site

The Race to Send Robots to Mine the Ocean Floor

06-11-2018 • Wired.com by Eric Niiler

When the 300-foot Maersk Launcher docked in San Diego early Monday morning, it unloaded a cargo of hardened black blobs scooped from the bottom of the sea.

The Story Behind $17 Billion Booty Found In 300-Year-Old "Holy Grail Of Shipwrecks"

05-28-2018 • zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

Details have finally emerged surround a 2015 discovery of a 300-year-old Spanish galleon which went down after a battle with British ships off the coast of Cartagena, Columbia - considered the "holy grail of shipwrecks."

Billionaire Paul Allen found the WW2 carrier Lexington

03-13-2018 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Billionaire-turned-explorer Paul Allen has discovered the missing wreck of the World War II carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) at the bottom of the Coral Sea.

The secret on the ocean floor

02-21-2018 • http://www.bbc.co.uk

A wave of pioneers is poised to scoop up treasure from the deep sea. But was this ocean mining boom sparked by a 1970s CIA plot? Mystery ship

Self-sailing drones set to explore the Southern Ocean

01-25-2018 • newatlas.com By Ben Coxworth

Australian research group CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) will be using aquatic drones to explore the Southern Ocean.

Roadmap for Future Ocean Floor Mapping

12-15-2017 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

About 71% of the Earth is covered by the World Ocean for which the bottom topography (bathymetry) is far less known than the surfaces of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and several planets' moons, including our own.

DIY Submarine Sinks in Denmark, Hobbyist Suspected of Killing Passenger

08-13-2017 • https://motherboard.vice.com, Jason Koebler

According to multiple reports, the inventor of one of the world's largest DIY submarines is being held in Copenhagen on suspicion of "unlawful killing" charges after the sub sank off Denmark's coast, reportedly with a journalist inside.

China all electric rim-driven shaftless ultraquiet submarine propulsion

07-07-2017 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

China claims an all electric rim-driven pump-jet had been fitted to the People's Liberation Army Navy's newest nuclear submarines.

$200 Scorkl offers 10 minutes of underwater breathing

06-06-2017 • newatlas.com by Mike Hanlon

Scorkl enables you to breathe underwater for up to 10 minutes.

Russia Wants to Build an Enormous 'Winged' Submarine

06-05-2017 • russia-insider.com by Kyle Mizokami

The submarine will be twice as long as a jumbo jet

China Is Building The World's Largest Nuclear Submarine Facility

04-21-2017 • zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

Perhaps it is time to shift attention away from the "rally around the flag" diversion that is North Korea and pay some attention to China, which delighted by the ongoing geopolitical distractions is currently building the world's largest ..

Smarter batteries help U-Boat Worx dive deeper for longer

04-05-2017 • newatlas.com by Scott Collie

Saying a company is "plumbing new depths" isn't usually a compliment, but it's high praise for U-Boat Worx.

Want to Explore the Deep Sea? The Secret Is Sound

03-04-2017 • Wired by Matt Simon

No place on this planet is more inhospitable to human life than the deep oceans.

Eelume - Reshaping Underwater Operations

02-19-2017 • youtube.com

Eelume delivers intervention vehicles designed to live permanently under water. A cost saving and innovative technology for a greener and safer subsea future.

Canada investigates mysterious 'pinging' sound at bottom of sea in Arctic

11-04-2016 • telegraph.co.uk by Chris Graham

Canada's military is investigating a mysterious "pinging" that is emanating from the sea floor in the Arctic.

New Microscope Lets Scientists See Living Corals Dancing Underwater

07-12-2016 • http://www.popsci.com, By Mary Beth Griggs

Looking at small scales in a big field

Shark Shield electrical forcefield fends off 90% of attacks

07-04-2016 • gizmag.com

Some pretty out-there ideas have been put forward to protect swimmers from sharks lurking in busy coastal waters.