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It’s been more than a century since the ship that was once thought of as unsinkable was lost to the ocean floor during her ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

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Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet ... can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining research and experiments over the ...