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26,322 Ft.: OSIL Giant Piston Corer Breaks Deep-Ocean Sampling Record Ocean Scientific International report that one of its Giant Piston Corer systems has broken two records in scientific ocean drilling and coring on the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 386. The expedition has been staged by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) to gain an insight into the seismic history of the study region off the Japanese coast, and is supported by the Japan Agenc...

Following one of the most adventurous ocean expeditions ever, scientists have returned precise measurements for the deepest points in each of the worlds five major oceans.  Data from the Five Deeps Expedition (FDE), which performed dives over the course of 10 months from 2018 to 2019, confirms for the first time the locations of the deepest points of Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.  The deepest point of the Indian Ocean is at 7,187 metres, within the Java Trench, just off the coast of I...

Unraveling the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Floating landfill twice the size of TEXAS in the North Pacific may get most of its plastic debris from eastern Asia, study reveals A new study set out to uncover the pathways that transports trash to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific, which contains 1.8 trillion pieces  A probability model was created to see what pathways were transporting  debris Researchers found a high-probability channel connecting Asias eastern...