Atlantic Ocean

Officials are warning people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they say medical waste, including hypodermic needles, washed ashore. Assateague Island National Seashore closed all ocean-facing beaches in Maryland and Virginia to swimming and wading. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources says swimming, wading and surfing were banned at Assateague State...

He is one of the most anticipated witnesses to appear before a commission trying to determine what caused the Titan to implode en route to the wreckage of the Titanic last year.

An animation was created showing the path and communications of the Titan submersible during a hearing held by the U.S. Coast Guard Board of Investigation. The Titan was on a path to explore the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor when it imploded.

The Titan imploded on June 18, 2023, setting off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration.

The location of a bronze statue not seen in decades is among the discoveries made by the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic during its first expedition to the site in years.

The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion have filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $50 million that accuses the sub’s operator of gross negligence.

The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic last June has not dulled the desire for ocean exploration.

A team of New England Aquarium researchers caught a series of beautiful photos of whales swimming in sync off the coast of Massachusetts this week.

A man from Long Island is recovering from hypothermia after treading water for about five hours in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. Police in Suffolk County said a 63-year-old from Copiague went for a swim at Cedar Beach in Babylon around 5 a.m. When he went out into the open water, police said, he was pulled out by the current….

In recent days, the massive hunt for a submersible vehicle lost during a north Atlantic descent to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has refocused attention on the conundrum: Who should pay for the sweeping search?

Filmmaker and deep-sea explorer James Cameron says he wishes he had personally sounded the alarm earlier that the Titan submersible was catastrophically dangerous. “There’s a part of me that hoped I was wrong. I really hoped and prayed I was wrong, but I knew I wasn’t.”