Pacific Ocean

The octopus was seen by cameras on a remote-controlled underwater vehicle crossing the Pacific Ocean floor.

The hammerhead sharks spent the days surrounding the full moon gathered together in female-only groups, for reasons researchers cannot elucidate.

"There's no doubt in my mind," one expert told Newsweek about boats offshore being negatively affected by wildfires.

The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed it had rescued 12 people off the coast of Maui who had jumped into the water to escape fast-moving wildfires.

A new study revealed that California waves have grown by a foot over the past 50 years.

Russian media outlets reported a fighter jet fell into the Pacific Ocean while on a training mission.

Mola mola are "unique-looking" creatures that weigh more than 2,000 pounds on average, making this species one of the world's heaviest bony fish.

An ambitious international reintroduction project hopes to release 500 zebra sharks in an area where they have all but disappeared.

A couple spent days treading water miles out to sea after getting swept away during a camping trip to a secluded island.

"I have never seen a fish that big in my life," Adam Irino told Newsweek of the 200lb catch.

Sunspot AR3141 erupted around midnight on November 7, sending high-energy X-rays racing toward Earth.

"Storms and atmospheric fronts create large swells that can travel tens of thousands of [miles] across the ocean," wave expert Shane Keating told Newsweek.

These little known, strange and fragile creatures live over 1,000 feet beneath the ocean surface, and are thought to be at risk as the ocean turns to acid.

Approximately 80 of the island's moai statues were damaged in the blaze, due to the erosion of the volcanic rock they were carved from.

A viral Reddit post claims that a 72 feet tall statue, twice the size of the largest standing Moai, was carved but never erected on Easter Island.

Victor Vescovo told Newsweek he wanted to visit the site of the earthquake to understand why life in trenches is so different to that of the rest of the ocean.

Deep sea mining involves scouring the seabed with machines for concentration of important or valuable minerals, such as manganese.

A tour group came across the dead body of a 13-foot-long giant squid, washed up on a beach in New Zealand.

A Category 5 typhoon is heading towards a nuclear plant in South Korea, leading to the plant decreasing its reactor run rates to 30 percent.

This experience was equivalent to going to space.

Current theories explaining the appearance of strange red lights in the sky, as pictured by pilots, suggest they may be caused by saury fishing vessels.

Rim of the Pacific 2022, the world's largest international maritime exercise, saw partner nation ships and aircraft sink the decommissioned guided missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis.

The atmospheric waves produced by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano may help scientists predict future weather events.

In a viral TikTok, two sea lions are shown charging at beachgoers, driving them off the beach and out of the water.

The Navy stated that it is very unlikely the missiles will detonate underwater.

Russia said it has completed its week-long naval drill maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean and performed more than 300 combat exercises.

Russia purportedly continues to rattle its sabre in the Pacific Ocean with large warships and planes taking part in exercises.

Sightings of the massive sharks, which can grow over 26 feet long, have dropped sharply since the 1990s.

Scott Thompson wondered if the seal was saying "Keep going, dude" with its nudges, after he fell into the Santa Barbara Channel.

"[It looked] like one of the pastures that I see with the cows in Texas. They were everywhere," Victor Vescovo told Newsweek.