Deep-sea Detectives

Follow the trail to unravel a seafloor mystery

By Cherie Winner

Source: Oceanus Magazine

Links to related materials

Mid-Ocean Ridges—Articles, illustrations, and video showing how new seafloor crust forms

Mapping the Seafloor with Multibeam Sonar

Profile of Marshall Swartz

Story of the SDSL Data-Link

Life at Vents and Seeps

While Oil Gently Seeps from the Seafloor—Oceanus magazine story about natural seeps of oil and methane