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This beautiful blue tube anemone, a ceriantharian, was observed while diving on an unnamed seamount in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument at about 1,757 meters (5,764 feet) deep during the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research’s 2016 Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi expedition.
William Thompson captured what many consider the first underwater photograph in Weymouth Bay, off the south coast of England.
Georges Houot and Pierre Willmin broke the deep dive record set by Auguste Piccard in the deep-sea submersible Trieste in 1953 when they dove to 4,050 meters (13,287 feet) in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal, in West Africa, in the French research submersible FNRS-3, ushering in the era of manned untethered research submersibles.
OER and partners embarked on the 2017 American Samoa Expedition: Suesuega o le Moana o Amerika Samoa on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer as part of the Campaign to Address Pacific Monument Science, Technology, and Ocean Needs.
Scientists exploring the seafloor along the Galápagos Rift in human occupied vehicle Alvin discovered the first known active hydrothermal vents and the unexpected life thriving around them.
The Seabed 2030 Project , a joint project of the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO (the General Bathymetry Chart of the Oceans) that aims to map 100% of the global ocean seabed by 2030, became operational.
OER and partners embarked on the first leg of the Océano Profundo 2015: Exploring Puerto Rico’s Seamounts, Trenches, and Troughs expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.
OER and partners embarked on the first leg of the Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico 2014 expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.
OER and partners embarked on the 2016 Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer as part of the Campaign to Address Pacific Monument Science, Technology, and Ocean Needs.
During the first operational dive of OER’s 2016 season, while exploring at depths of over 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) northeast of Necker Island in the Hawaiian Archipelago, scientists encountered “Casper,” a ghostlike octopod that has since been determined to be an undescribed species.
Interested in learning more? Browse our expeditions by year and read about NOAA's history of ocean exploration.