A warship, maritime patrol plane and drone had been deployed to monitor the vessel, Laksamana Muhammad Ali, the chief of the Indonesian nav...

"On the one hand, help from China can be seen as a way for a great power to use its power responsibly," she said, but by allowing countries...

The vessel "Fendouzhe", or "Striver", descended more than 10,000 metres into the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench with three researchers on b...

In 2011, China had entered into a deal with the International Seabed Authority for a polymetallic sulphide exploration area of 10,000 sq km...

The submersible can carry humans to the deepest oceans, which is about 10,000 metres below sea level, and it is set for deep-sea exploratio...

While China claims its sovereignty over the Senkaku islands held by Japan, it also has claims over all of South China Sea (SCS).

The submersible named 'Jiaolong' was underwater for six and a half hours on the second stage of China's 38th ocean scientific expedition, w...

Named after a mythical dragon, Jiaolong reached its deepest depth of 7,062 meters in the Mariana Trench in June 2012.

Meanwhile, a subsidiary of the CSIC is building a mothership, with a displacement of around 4,000 tonnes, for Jiaolong, expected to be put ...

From December 25-27, three deep-sea landing devices descended into the trench, Cui told state-run Xinhua news agency.

During the trip the submersible dived over 8,000 metres below the sea surface once, 9,000 metres twice and 10,000 metres twice.

China's unmanned submersible Qianlong No 2 has succesfully completed its first exploration in the southwest Indian Ocean early this month.

China proposes joint mining of Indian Ocean with India where its deep diving vessel reported to have discovered large deposits gold and sil...

The project involves exploring the Indian Ocean for 120 days, reflects China's hunger for resources, and its long-term development plans.

China today said it will go all out in the underwater search for the crashed Malaysian jet even though the hunt for the plane has reached a...

China is planning to deploy its indigenous deep sea manned submersible to locate the wreckage of the missing Malaysian airliner, even as se...

No new electronic pings have been heard since April 8, and the batteries powering the locator beacons on the jet's black box recorders may ...