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In March 2025 a French Navy drone was mapping the seabed south of Saint-Tropez when its sonar picked up something large that nobody had recorded. A camera sent down after it found a merchant ship from the 1500s lying 2,567 meters down, the deepest known wreck in French waters.
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (27+ words) The drone was not looking for a shipwreck. It was working through a stretch of seabed off Ramatuelle, near Saint-Tropez in southeastern France, as part of a...
In 1866 a single undersea cable finally held across the Atlantic, and a message that once took eleven days by ship crossed the ocean in minutes — the moment the world first felt small
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (719+ words) On 27 July 1866, the cable-laying ship Great Eastern reached Heart's Content in Newfoundland with an unbroken telegraph line trailing back across the Atlantic...
In 2019, Victor Vescovo made the deepest solo dive in human history, descending nearly 11 kilometres into the Challenger Deep, and at the bottom of the ocean he reported seeing what looked like a plastic bag
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (102+ words) In late April 2019, Victor Vescovo took a two-person titanium submersible called the DSV Limiting Factor alone to the floor of the Challenger Deep, the lowest...