Exploration and Explorers – Page 2

What to Know About OceanGate, the Company that Owns the Missing Submarine

The company has made headlines for organizing expeditions for paying tourists to travel in submersibles to shipwrecks, including the Titanic.

Canadian Military and Inuit Rangers Work to Defend Arctic Territory

Humbled by centuries of fatal colonial expeditions, Canada’s military is learning Arctic survival strategies from the austere area’s only inhabitants.

The Moon May Get Its Own Time Zone

As different countries plan lunar missions, the European Space Agency says that creating a time zone up there may simplify things.

Doomed Vessel and Its Unused Lifeboat Are Discovered at the Bottom of Lake Huron

Researchers have found the wreck of the wooden schooner barge Ironton, which sank after a collision in 1894, claiming the lives of five crew members.

There Are Holes on the Ocean Floor. Scientists Don’t Know Why.

Similar openings on the sea floor were first spotted 18 years ago along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Their origins remain unknown. Scientists are asking the public for their thoughts.