49K views · 1.3K reactions | Happy World Ocean Day! Here's hoping you never stop exploring and appreciating the wonders of our ocean. [We saw this very active Pacific fourhorn octopus (Pteroctopus hoylei) while exploring an unnamed seamount northwest of Holanikū (Kure Atoll) in April. For more from the expedition, visit: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/okeanos-beyond-the-blue/ex2503/welcome.html.] | NOAA Ocean Exploration | Facebook

4.2K views · 12 reactions | Crew members from Okeanos Explorer use a crane to carefully launch M/B Yaquina Neversink into the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Palau. (This silent video has been sped up by 2x regular speed) | NOAA Ocean Exploration | Facebook

After 55 days of exploration, the #ChileMargin2024 expedition team is heading home. Researchers have been exploring along a margin where a submerged continental shelf extends from the country’s west coast and drops steeply and suddenly into the Pacific Ocean. It runs the entire length of South America due to the subduction of the Pacific plate under the South American plate. The confluence of tectonic forces and terrestrial influences makes this margin a natural laboratory for investigating chem