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Japanese yachtsman Kenichi Horie becomes the oldest person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean at the age of 83.
2022-06-4

A tropical storm intensifies into Hurricane Rick off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, and is expected to make landfall in the states of Michoacán and Colima.
2021-10-23

The wreck of Japanese warship "Kaga", sunk in the Battle of Midway during World War II, is discovered on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean. It is only the second vessel sunk during the battle to have been found.
2019-10-18

American undersea explorer Victor Vescovo sets a new world record for the deepest ever sea dive at 10,972 m in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Several unusual things are discovered at the bottom, including four new species of prawn-like crustaceans, a new species of snailfish, strange brightly coloured rocky outcrops and a plastic bag.
2019-05-13

A Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35 Lightning II jet disappears from radar while on a training mission over the Pacific Ocean. Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya subsequently grounds Japan's fleet of F-35s.
2019-04-9

Lava continues spewing from fissures on Kilauea, Hawaii, reaching the Pacific Ocean and critically injuring one person.
2018-05-20

The US National Academy of Sciences found that pollution from China’s manufacturing industry drifts across the Pacific Ocean and affects US cities.
2014-01-21

HTV-3 detaches from the ISS for a burial in the Pacific Ocean. ATV 3 thrusts the ISS' orbit two kilometers up. TMA-04M will land on 17 September. ATV-003, named "Edoardo Amaldi", is planned to disconnect on September 25th and burn up itself and a load of trash in the atmosphere over the same ocean.
2012-09-14

Russia's unmanned Fobos-Grunt space probe re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after a failed mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The 13-ton spacecraft disintegrates over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 16:45 UTC. China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, which was launched together with Fobos-Grunt, is also destroyed.
2012-01-15

Tropical Storm Adrian forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean becoming the first tropical storm of the 2011 Pacific hurricane season.
2011-06-7