An ambitious expedition led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to a chain of little-known islands in the central Pacific Ocean has yielded an unprecedented wealth of ...

The team led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers had traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to explore a tropical paradise. Over five weeks, it conducted ...

A gray reef shark swims over corals in remote Kingman Reef in the Line Islands. Researchers believe that a large number of sharks is indicative of healthy reefs. Courtesy of Jennifer Smith Research ...

Preserving pristine Coral Reefs in a remote location is no small task, but also of big importance. Global Diving & Salvage shows how it is done. On June 19, 1991 officials with the National Oceanic ...

A survey of a remote Pacific archipelago turned up pristine coral reefs that could offer a “baseline” for measuring the human impact on reefs worldwide, report researchers from the Scripps Institution ...

A "toothy" anglerfish has been filmed on the bottom of the seafloor, about 3,000 feet from the surface. The footage was taken at the Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge. This is a protected area ...

For six months, Martin Curtin and his crew fought to remove rusted pieces of three crumbling shipwrecks from a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, battling gale-force winds and torrential rains, to help ...

Example of a healthy reef. Kingman reef is a remote, uninhabited ecosystem in the Central Pacific, halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa. The image shows an example of a nearly ...

LONG BEACH >> Traveling weeks to a place where the nearest civilization was a thousand miles away. Finding a way to remove rusted shipwrecks without disrupting a precious ecosystem. Battling a ...