The winning SeaKIT surface vessel More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans are currently unmapped, but a $7 million prize pool to explore the deep sea hopes to change that. The Ocean Discovery ...

“We’ve always labeled it, ... sea mapping and official names. The organization has yet to agree to a proposal that was submitted in 2000 to add the Southern Ocean to the world map, ...

National Geographic Officially Recognizes the Southern Ocean as World’s Fifth Ocean The organization’s cartographers will now label a total of five oceans on their maps and atlases ...

Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed global map of human impacts on the seas. A study in Science journal says climate change, fishing ...