Reading time: 3minutes Affectionately known as the K-O-K, the ship joined the fleet of UH marine expeditionary research vessels in 1994 and has been used across the Pacific Ocean on a variety of missions .
Reading time: 2minutes New research reveals growth rates of deep-sea coral communities for the first time, and the pattern of colonization by various species.
Reading time: 3minutes Mesophotic reefs in the Auau channel continuously disclose breathtaking levels of biodiversity, yielding species and behavioral interactions new to science.
Reading time: 4minutes The Hawaiʻi Undersea Research Laboratory maintains two of the last manned submersibles in the world, enabling incredible research, discovery and exploration.
Reading time: 5minutes Researchers complete a 20-year study to comprehensively document mesophotic coral ecosystems throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago.
Reading time: 2minutesHawaiʻi Undersea Research Laboratory teamed up with Conservation International to dive on seamounts never explored by human-occupied submersibles.
Reading time: 3minutes During a test dive, the UH Undersea Research Laboratory recovered the bronze bell from the I-400—a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy mega-submarine.