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Expedition maps hundreds of thousands of miles of previously unexplored seafloor by The Week team IBRAHIM CHALHOUB /AFP An expedition to map the seafloors of the Earth’s five oceans has provided new insights into their precise depths and locations, scientists say.  The Five Deeps Expedition explored the “key locations where the seafloor bottoms out” in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans in order to provide “the most precise information yet” on the oceans’ deepest points, reports the BBC.  Top of the ocean bottoms According to a newly published paper in ...

Following one of the most adventurous ocean expeditions ever, scientists have returned precise measurements for the deepest points in each of the world's 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 Indonesia, the data reveals, while the deepest point of the Southern Ocean has a depth of 7,432 metr...

Nightmare Fuel: Shark With A ‘Human Face’ The fisherman who caught the creature told the  Daily Mail that his house has been filled with people who want to see the shark. He has also received offers from people to buy it from him, but he thinks that the shark might bring him good look and he wants to preserve it instead of selling it. Recently, the Indian Ocean has been a hot (water)bed of strange discoveries. In 2019, a bizarre jellyfish-like creature was found in the Java Trench which is believed to be the deepest point in the Indian Ocean.

Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LIX No 1, New Delhi, December 19, 2020 Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line | Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery Saturday 19 December 2020 June 7, 2020 - Updated December 6, 2020 On many beaches around the Indian Ocean, keen observers may spot bits of broken pottery. Washed smooth by the ocean, these shards are in all likelihood hundreds of years old, from centres of ceramic production like the Middle Eastern Abbasid caliphate and the Chinese Ming dynasty. Originally destined for Indian Ocean port cities, this pott...

10 Offbeat Stories You Might Have Missed This Week (5/18/19) Another week has passed, which means that it is time, once again, to look at some of the bizarre stories that made the headlines recently. If you want to read up on last week’s list, click here. This week, we have two stories on mysterious texts and ciphers. One is carved into a rock in France, while the other one is considered a Holy Grail of cryptography. Another mystery would be who keeps drawing penises on the sports fields of Melbourne. There is also a secret chamber in Rome, a brewery in the United States, and a Danish polit...