The Office of Coast Survey, part of the National Ocean Service, conducts missions to chart the coasts and ocean bottom along U.S…

Hypoxic zones are areas in the ocean of such low oxygen concentration that animal life suffocates and dies, and as a result are sometimes called …

Hurricane Dean approaching Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, GOES East August 20, 2007

Hurricane Wilma had the lowest central pressure of any tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean

Hurricane Rita was the 4th most intense Atlantic hurricane and most intense in the Gulf of Mexico

An infamous storm in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina carved a path of destruction from Miami to New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina approaching the Gulf Coast. This image was taken by GOES East at 2115Z on August 28, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina image taken by GOES East at 2115Z on August 28, 2005, with a view extending from Louisiana across the Gulf of Mexico.