Did Barack and Michelle Obama visit "Epstein Island" and pose for a photo with their daughters with the iconic and blue and white striped building of Epstein Island in the background? No, that's not true: This photo has been altered to ad
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Logically→ 2019 photo shared as drone attack on Israeli ship in Indian Ocean
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A photo of a US Navy test was edited to add a UFO rising out of the ocean
CLAIM: A photo shows a UFO emerging from the ocean next to a naval ship and a large explosion. AP’S ASSESSMENT: Altered photo.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Hamish Harding Tweeted About ‘Biden Crime Family’ Before Diving In OceanGate Titan Sub
Did Hamish Harding, an aviation businessman and aircraft pilot who died in the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster, tweet on June 17, 2023, that the Biden family tried to hire his aviation company for human smuggling? No, that's not true
Logically→ No, this image does not depict the wreckage of OceanGate’s Titan submersible
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Missing OceanGate Submarine’ NOT ‘Found Empty’ — Debris Found, Suffered ‘Catastrophic Implosion’
Was the "missing OceanGate submarine found empty" at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by search-and-rescue teams? No, that's not true: The U.S. Coast Guard said on June 22, 2023, that the OceanGate Titan suffered a "catastrophic implosion
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden mistakes his oceans when describing train development in Africa
"We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: OceanGate Titan Was NOT Rescued With All Passengers Alive On June 21, 2023
Was OceanGate's Titan, the submarine vessel that disappeared while descending to the wreckage of RMS Titanic, rescued with all passengers alive three days after going missing on June 18, 2023? No, that's not true: In a news conference hel
Truth or Fiction?→ Fake Twitter Account @OceanGateExpeds Suspended After Spreading OceanGate Disinformation
As efforts to locate a “missing submersible” operated by OceanGate Expeditions continued on June 21 2023, the Twitter account @OceanGateExpeds published several viral tweets. The account was eventually suspended, but not before putting out
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Antarctica doesn’t contain the planet’s oceans, and Earth isn’t flat
The ocean is "flat" and "contained" by land features that jut up from a flat (not spherical) earth.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Final frontier? No, NASA didn’t stop studying oceans, it’s exploring in ocean depths and from space
“NASA stopped exploring the ocean.”
Logically→ NASA stopped exploring the ocean in 1978.
NASA continues to research the ocean and undertake deep-sea exploration to this day.
Snopes→ Google Earth Satellite Image Does Not Show Airplane Crash in Ocean
While we did find that Google Earth hosted the image of the airplane and ocean, the truth of the matter was not so exciting.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Stop Exploring Oceans
Did NASA stop investigating the deepest layers of the world's oceans 34 years ago? No, that's not true: NASA's main exploration ventures are in space, but, according to the agency's website, it still explores the ocean, too. A claim asser
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Red Glow In Pacific Ocean Is NOT Unexplained — Commercial Fishing Boats Use Light To Lure Saury
Is there still a mystery surrounding the bright red glow under the clouds seen by a pilot flying over the north Pacific Ocean? No, that's not true: Pilot Dustin Maggard spotted the red glow on July 16, 2022. Although there was initially s
Snopes→ World’s Toughest Turtle? Survivor Among 8 Returned to Ocean
If what doesn't kill you truly makes you stronger, then Titan is the strongest turtle in the ocean.
FactCheck.org→ Faulty Research Paper Leads to Unfounded Claims About Health of Atlantic Ocean
SciCheck Digest Climate change has affected ocean ecosystems, scientists say. But an unfounded claim on social media that “plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone” and the ocean is “now pretty much dead” is based on a faulty
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, 90% of plankton in the Atlantic Ocean did not die off
"Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Plankton In Atlantic Ocean Is NOT 90% Gone
Is plankton in the Atlantic Ocean 90 percent gone? No, that's not true; this claim is missing context. The author of the plankton study told Lead Stories that the newspaper article making the claim did not accurately reflect that his stud
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Alien Craft Crashed In Ocean — It’s Model Or Animation Of The Millennium Falcon From ‘Star Wars’
Does this brief video show an alien spaceship that crashed into the ocean? No, that's not true: This video shows a model or animation of the fictional starship from "Star Wars," the Millennium Falcon. The audio featured in this video clip
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Satellite Video Does NOT Show ‘White Object’ Hitting Ocean And Causing Tonga Volcano Eruption
Does a satellite video of the volcano eruption in Tonga show a "white object," or what one post's headline called a "'ROD FROM GOD' KINETIC WEAPON," hitting the ocean and causing an explosion? No, that's not true: Tim Vasquez, a satellite
Truth or Fiction?→ Is This ‘Our Planet From the Side of the Pacific Ocean’?
On January 4 2022, an Imgur user shared a purported image of Earth “from the side of the Pacific Ocean”: Underneath an image without a labeled source, text read: The Earth is almost never shown like this, and in the meantime, this is our p
Snopes→ Is Ukraine’s Donetsk Airport ‘Abandoned in the Ocean’?
The country's Sergei Prokofiev International Airport was destroyed during a violent conflict in 2014.
Snopes→ This 500-Year-Old ‘Swimming Head’ Fossil Once Swam the World’s Oceans
The ancient sea-dweller used a pair of spiny claws like "multiple stacked rakes" to capture prey.
Truth or Fiction?→ Bill Nye ‘There’s Already Enough Plastic in the Ocean’ Response Tweet
On August 16 2021, the Facebook page “Super News Supes” shared a screenshot in which science educator Bill Nye purportedly made a misogynistic comment about Kylie Jenner in a screenshot that was circulating as early as July 9 2019: In th
Logically→ Oceans produce more oxygen than all trees combined.
Around 28 percent of the Earth's oxygen is produced by trees. More than 70 percent of oxygen is produced by marine plants.
Snopes→ Message in a Bottle Travels Across the Atlantic Ocean
The note included an email address to respond.
Snopes→ Will a Company Turn Human ‘Cremains’ into Artificial Ocean Reef?
It’s described as an “urn, ash scattering, and burial at sea” all in one.
Snopes→ World’s 5th Ocean Now Officially Recognized by National Geographic
The so-named Southern Ocean contains one of the world's most influential marine currents.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Beautiful Turtle Living In Atlantic Ocean’ Is NOT Alive, It’s A Glass Pendant
Does this photo show a new species of shiny blue, purple and yellow Atlantic Ocean sea turtle? No, that's not true: It's a piece of glass artwork. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (now unavailable but archived here) on May 27, 2021.
AFP Fact Check→ This video is computer-generated — it does not show a ‘Chinese rocket over the Indian Ocean’
A video has been viewed thousands of times on Twitter, Facebook and Weibo alongside a claim it shows a Chinese rocket that disintegrated over the Indian Ocean in 2021. The claim is false: the video in fact shows computer-generated imagery created by an
Logically→ A video has been captured of the Chinese spaceship Long March 5B crashlanding into the Indian Ocean.
The video clip of SpaceX's Starship prototype exploding has been falsely shared as the Long March 5B crashlanding.
Logically→ Parts of the Chinese rocket, Long March 5B, landed in the Indian Ocean.
The fragments of China's Long March 5B rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on May 8, with most of its components lost upon re-entry at 10:15 p.m. EDT.
Climate Feedback→ Atlantic ocean circulation system is slowing down, as accurately described in The New York Times article
SUMMARY The article published in The New York Times discusses findings from a study published in February 2021 that reconstructed the evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an ocean circulation system that strongly infl
Snopes→ Where Does Plastic Pollution Go When It Enters the Ocean?
Of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste we produce each year, it’s estimated that around ten million tons enters the ocean.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Is NOT A Picture Of Two Oceans Meeting But Not Mixing
Does this video show the meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at Cape Horn? Or two oceans meeting in the Gulf of Alaska? No, that's not true: This video was filmed in Canada, near Vancouver Island, and shows the dramatic difference
Snopes→ No, Titanic Photos Weren’t Found in the ‘Deep Ocean’
You may have seen the ad that promised: "Old Camera Found In The Deep Ocean Reveals Horrifying Titanic Photos."
AFP Fact Check→ Photos and videos shared with false claims about oceans meeting in Gulf of Alaska
Posts shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media claim to show the point where the oceans meet in the Gulf of Alaska. This is false; only one of the images was actually taken in the Gulf of Alaska according to the people who took the origina
Snopes→ Warm Ocean Water Delays Sea Ice for Alaska Towns, Wildlife
The U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq can break through ice as thick as 2.5 feet (0.76 meters). In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won't be tested.
Truth or Fiction?→ Will 154,000,000 Pieces of Plastic from Christmas Crackers in the UK Wind Up in the Ocean in a Single Year?
In late September and early October 2019, a very specific claim involving Christmas crackers (a tradition involving devices called “party poppers” in some countries; they are made from cardboard and gunpowder, generally contain confetti or