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Marine life, shipwrecks, diving, submarines, and undersea exploration.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

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2026806 stories
Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented↗ phys.org · HN · 192 comments · 243 points · Sep 17, 2026
Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs↗ e360.yale.edu · HN · 202 comments · 364 points · Aug 25, 2026
Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii↗ theguardian.com · HN · 109 comments · 325 points · Jul 11, 2026
Artemis II safely splashes down↗ cbsnews.com · HN · 453 comments · 1288 points · Apr 11, 2026
Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged↗ cnn.com · HN · 707 comments · 511 points · Jan 01, 2026
20251,230 stories
Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing↗ marineinsight.com · HN · 265 comments · 397 points · Nov 08, 2025
Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site↗ tomshardware.com · HN · 213 comments · 428 points · Oct 17, 2025
DrawAFish.com Postmortem↗ aldenhallak.com · HN · 104 comments · 390 points · Aug 04, 2025
Fish 4↗ github.com · HN · 106 comments · 312 points · Feb 27, 2025
Obscure islands I find interesting↗ amanvir.com · HN · 178 comments · 552 points · Feb 07, 2025
20241,490 stories
Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus↗ fishshell.com · HN · 198 comments · 906 points · Dec 28, 2024
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted↗ cnn.com · HN · 1045 comments · 597 points · Nov 18, 2024
I built an ROV to solve missing person cases↗ suanto.com · HN · 162 comments · 1183 points · Jun 09, 2024
Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico↗ twitter.com · HN · 869 comments · 818 points · Jun 06, 2024
Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses↗ wbaltv.com · HN · 1108 comments · 712 points · Mar 26, 2024
20231,586 stories
Coastline paradox↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 100 comments · 164 points · Dec 30, 2023
Scientists have 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale↗ earth.com · HN · 44 comments · 78 points · Dec 22, 2023
African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings↗ gcaptain.com · HN · 204 comments · 75 points · Dec 22, 2023
Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavior May Be Spreading↗ smithsonianmag.com · HN · 46 comments · 69 points · Jul 01, 2023
The Deep Sea↗ neal.fun · HN · 17 comments · 73 points · Jun 27, 2023
20221,346 stories
Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs↗ cbsnews.com · HN · 396 comments · 542 points · Oct 14, 2022
The Strid: The ‘deadliest stretch of water’↗ the-yorkshireman.com · HN · 198 comments · 382 points · Sep 22, 2022
Raft Consensus Animated (2014)↗ thesecretlivesofdata.com · HN · 67 comments · 411 points · Aug 16, 2022
Mysterious holes on the seafloor↗ oceanexplorer.noaa.gov · HN · 135 comments · 385 points · Aug 07, 2022
The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)↗ kitze.io · HN · 243 comments · 571 points · May 12, 2022
20211,482 stories
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters↗ usa.oceana.org · HN · 592 comments · 1210 points · Jun 06, 2021
Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated↗ reuters.com · HN · 569 comments · 1068 points · Mar 29, 2021
Is that ship still stuck?↗ istheshipstillstuck.com · HN · 1237 comments · 1453 points · Mar 25, 2021
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship↗ twitter.com · HN · 427 comments · 1055 points · Mar 23, 2021
Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water↗ joshdata.me · HN · 171 comments · 1669 points · Feb 20, 2021
20201,235 stories
Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine↗ ru-submarine.livejournal.com · HN · 367 comments · 610 points · Oct 31, 2020
Whale fall↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 111 comments · 491 points · May 17, 2020
A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship↗ thehustle.co · HN · 225 comments · 496 points · May 03, 2020
Spot the Drowning Child (2015)↗ spotthedrowningchild.com · HN · 405 comments · 697 points · Mar 04, 2020
Float Toy↗ evanw.github.io · HN · 69 comments · 649 points · Jan 22, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented↗ phys.org · HN · 192 comments · 243 points · Sep 17, 2026
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind↗ gcaptain.com · HN · 136 comments · 193 points · Sep 17, 2026
Larger Pacific striped octopus↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 74 comments · 136 points · Sep 09, 2026
Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs↗ e360.yale.edu · HN · 202 comments · 364 points · Aug 25, 2026
The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands↗ gods.art · HN · 13 comments · 70 points · Sep 16, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented↗ phys.org · HN · 192 comments · 243 points · Sep 17, 2026
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind↗ gcaptain.com · HN · 136 comments · 193 points · Sep 17, 2026
Larger Pacific striped octopus↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 74 comments · 136 points · Sep 09, 2026
The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands↗ gods.art · HN · 13 comments · 70 points · Sep 16, 2026
Lake Ontario ("Lake America")↗ community.openstreetmap.org · HN · 119 comments · 69 points · Sep 01, 2026
Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected↗ sciencealert.com · HN · 32 comments · 43 points · Sep 04, 2026
Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 6 comments · 24 points · Sep 06, 2026
B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023)↗ thecretefleet.com · HN · 8 comments · 22 points · Sep 21, 2026
How an American naval officer cut weeks off the ocean voyages in the 1840's↗ twitter.com · HN · 1 comments · 15 points · Sep 22, 2026
How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?↗ 404media.co · HN · 6 comments · 15 points · Sep 03, 2026

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