The U.S. Coast Guard says​ it has seized over 40,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean over the last month as part of boosted counter-drug operations.

Five people were rescued from the Pacific Ocean near the pier in downtown Oceanside after getting into distress. The rescues come amid a high rip current risk at San Diego area beaches, with 3 to 5-foot waves.

It’s a story of three brothers, a boat and thousands of miles of ocean. The Maclean brothers from Scotland are in the final stretch of their attempt to row nonstop across the Pacific from Peru to Australia.

Watling first saw the coral species aboard a submersible in 2006, he said. The research team took photographs of the colony and collected a piece of it as a sample, but it wasn't until 2016 when the Chinese team found more of the animal that it could be described as a new species.

Three Scottish brothers set a world record Saturday for completing the fastest unsupported row across the full Pacific Ocean.

Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean broke the world record for the fastest non-stop and unsupported rowing across the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 30

Chinese scientists have uncovered a vast and previously unknown hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, revealing massive craters filled with hydrogen and life. As detailed in a recent Science Advances paper,

The volcanic rock was found 5,050 feet deep while the Ocean Exploration Trust was investigating a central Pacific region that has “over 300 unexplored seamounts” created by ancient volcanos. The expedition ran from July 27 through Aug. 17. Ocean ...