A group of divers spotted a rare blue eel in the waters off Indonesia. The footage recorded shows the intricacies of the mesmerizing eel and its bright, colorful body. Eels often have their mouths ...

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. When sunlight hits ...

Painters have ransacked the heavens and earth for inspiration, recorded the sea in all its moods, discovered the bird’s-eye view centuries before the airplane. Only recently has the artist begun ...

Underwater photos are often blue-tinted because of the way light bends in water, obscuring the incredibly vibrant colors of ocean flora and fauna. Researchers Derya Akkaynak and Tali Trebitz created a ...

A project from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has developed an image analysis tool intended to render truer and more accurate representations of underwater scenes. Capturing ...