The winners of the Beneath The Sea 2010 International Imaging Competition, one of the major competitions for underwater photography, have been announced
Close focus wide angle underwater photography can be tricky at first, but once with some guidance it can be a great way to produce creative underwater images. Article by Alex Mustard
Killer whales raise their voices to be heard over boat noise, and the effort may be wearing the whales out as they try to find food amid dwindling numbers of salmon, new research says
Missed out on the DPG Expedition to Raja Ampat and Fak Fak this December? Well good news, spaces are available to join DivePhotoGuide contributor Keri Wilk on a 18-day ReefNet expedition to Ambon...
The winners of the 2009 Underwater Images Competition have been announced. Congratulations to DPG contributor Keri Wilk for taking Best of Show with his shot of a juvenile flying fish
Emergency plans to counteract global warming by artificially shading the Earth from incoming sunlight might lower the planet's temperature a few degrees, but such "geoengineering" solutions would...
Coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been comprehensively 'flattened' over the last 40 years, according to a disturbing new study by the University of East Anglia
Oceanographers have long known that the 20-year-old paradigm for describing the global ocean circulation– called the Great Ocean Conveyor – was an oversimplification
Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965
Researchers in Canada are reporting for the first time that high mercury levels in certain Arctic seals appear to be linked to vanishing sea ice caused by global warming
Apparently there are at least two sources that are predicting a Canon 1D Mark IV this fall. That would put Canon at a one year production cycle for their pro DSLR bodies. Let's see if this rumor...
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has recently been consulting with Holista Health Inc. about the severe negative impacts of Shark Cartilage products on the health of our oceans
The fossils of a monster predator with a circular jaw and a pair of claws on its head has been discovered in the old collections of the Smithsonian museum in Washington
The number of fish living in Caribbean reefs has dropped significantly since 1995, after decades of stability, and is likely due to a significant loss of coral
The fine folks at Beneath The Sea, the largest consumer dive show in the US, has announced the winners of the their international underwater imaging competition
"The vast majority of Europeans want the EU to enact a strong prohibition on seal products, which will end the suffering I witness on the Canadian ice floes each year."
Thirteen years after the world rallied to curb overfishing, most nations are failing to abide by the U.N.'s code of conduct for managing fisheries, scientists found
A seven-month-old Hawaiian monk seal - rescued after his mother abandoned him less than one day after he was born on Kaua'i - is thriving as it adjusts to the wild
A critical problem this time of year, is when pregnant females cruise south from the cold waters off Canada and New England to the warm nursery off the southeastern U.S. seaboard. It's a journey of...
The 2008 Epson Eilat Red Sea underwater photo competition has come to a close. Winning images and video clips from the winning ceremony wrap up our coverage of this year's event
Our friends at the Blue Ocean Institute recently released a Guide to Ocean Friendly Sushi, in order to provide sushi lovers the ability to satisfy both their culinary cravings and their desire to...
Jana Strain, a Canadian Freediver and resident of Santa Monica, CA, set a new Canadian and North American Women's Freediving Record with a swim of 171 meters (560 feet) in two minutes and eighteen...
A giant Atlantic bluefin tuna weighing more than half a ton had the honor of being fitted with the 1000th electronic tracking tag placed on this threatened species when it was caught and released...
In the wake of environmental decline and man's impact on the earth, and the ocean, there are several marine mammal hunts, including international whaling, and the dolphin slaughter in Japan,that...
Today, representatives of The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International return to court to refute charges relating to technical violations of Canada's Fisheries Act...
A clearly agitated Loyola Hearn, Canada's Minister of Fishy Business held a media conference in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a vindictive and clearly angry denunciation of Captain Paul Watson and...
Analysis of leatherback turtles showed that the carbon and nitrogen isotrope ratios were different for each group, which suggests that the turtles had had a different diet before laying their eggs.
The World Photo Press Contest is one of the most prestigious competitions in the world for photo journalists. I'm proud to say that for 2008 the Nature category was dominated by underwater...
Like many northerners who head south to warmer climates for the winter, many Northern right whales also head south in November and stay into April. Their destination is the only known calving...
Regional government agencies around the Great Lakes spend some $15 billion a year to protect the lakes from invasive species, contaminated sediment and sewage overflows
Canadian geologists say they can shed light on how a vast lake, trapped under the ice sheet that once smothered much of North America, drained into the sea, an event that cooled Earth's climate for...
Coral reef scientist Dr. Andrew C. Baker has been awarded the prestigious 2008 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to help protect reef corals from climate change.
Using data provided by the United Nations, researchers found that commercial fishing has played an important, yet declining, role in removing man-made nitrogen from coastal waters.
Violent confrontations on the waterfront and arson attacks were an unsavory feature of the intense hunt for sponges on Florida's fragile coral reef in 1918. But the real victims were the sponges...
Coral reefs in the Caribbean have suffered significant changes due to the proximal effects of a growing human population, reports a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B
A Queen's environmental scientist will head a new international study to determine whether American eels - the slimy, snake-like fish considered worldwide to be a food delicacy - are dying from...
The Turks & Caicos Tourist Board has announced the winners of the "Third Annual Turks & Caicos Underwater Photographic Competition". The three Grand Prize winners - two of whom were women - share...
Underwater photographers and film makers flocked to the the French Riviera (Antibes) for the 34th World Festival of Underwater Pictures from Oct 24th - 28th. Gyula "Jules" Somogyi was there for...
An open letter from Rob Stewart - the man behind Sharkwater...Hopefully by now you've heard about Sharkwater, the most award winning documentary of the year that broke box office records in Canada
The acting mayor of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., is frustrated wildlife managers have allowed a group of beluga whales to get trapped in nearby lakes for the second winter in a row.
Merven Gruben told...
Docs on the Bay, a new documentary film festival to be held annually in Stephenville, is the first film festival in Atlantic Canada dedicated solely to the presentation and promotion of documentary...
Five defendants are set to stand trial in the Magdalen Islands Thursday, accused of violating their observation permits during the 2006 East Coast seal hunt. The defendants are representatives of...
A fur trade campaigner from Nottingham has said he would rather go to jail than pay a fine after being accused of breaching an exclusion zone to film a seal cull in Canada.
Mark Glover, of the...
The endangered right whale is to get extra protection after a safe haven from shipping was set aside off Nova Scotia in Canada.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) ratified a Canadian...
In April, researchers attached transmitters to eight of west Greenland's walruses in a bid to uncover their secret summer hide-out.
While many tags failed early on, one of the satellite devices...
Canada on Tuesday announced an investment over three years of 42.5 million dollars (US) in conserving and protecting its territorial waters, especially the Arctic Ocean.
About half that amount,...
New York really does have a rejuvenated diver scene these days, thanks in large part to OceanBlue Divers, the one year old dive club that boasts nearly 1,000 members, and the host of a lovely...
Decisions made at a meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization will help cod recover and protect vulnerable cold-water corals off the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador....
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia....
Inuit people of the Arctic have always known about it, but no outsiders have witnessed it for 200 years: a polar bear fishing. Not by scooping the fish out of the water like a brown bear - but by...
A Canada-U.S. aerial patrol identified 10 vessels suspected of illegally fishing with drift nets in the international waters of the North Pacific in September, Canadian Forces officials say....
Scientists have discovered kelp forests in the tropics, raising hopes over the ability of marine life to survive global warming, according to a study.
Coral reefs were thought to be the only...
An endangered species of whale that can dive as deep as a kilometre to feed is helping scientists determine how to protect an unusual marine ecosystem off Canada's East Coast.
Observations of...
The annual Visions in the Sea Festival is now in its eleventh year and for 2007 we have an even better show than ever before. As the 2007 Festival fast approaches, we invite you once more to...
A new report on the fate of polar bears in a world of climate change predicts disaster for one of the world's most charismatic species, says WWF.
The report by the US Geological Survey predicts...
Orcas or killer whales may continue to suffer the effects of contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for the next 30 u" 60 years, despite 1970s-era regulations that have reduced overall...
The long gun registry in Canada has come under fire from those who hunt for deer and other game. They claim that people don't hunt with shot guns, and want the registry kept for more dangerous...
Working in west-central Alberta, the now defunct Cequel Energy Inc. company thrust a 7.5-centimetre-wide drill more than 1,300 metres into the ground. When the tube pulled up a sample of earth, it...
The beluga whales make a shrill sound as they stick their noses out of the water, watched by conservationist Michel Moisan. They are a rare sight this far south -- and the chemicals washing into...
Federal fisheries officials are taking additional steps to protect sandbar sharks.
A new rule would ban the recreational harvest of sandbar sharks - recognizable by their long pectoral fins -...
Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake, has been shrinking for yearsu"and now it appears to be getting hotter.
Beachgoers at the lake, which is bounded by Wisconsin, Michigan,...
Members of the International SHARK - L Discussion List have recently got together to write the following letter to Discovery Network regarding Shark Week programming.
If you feel that you agree...
An initiated global correspondence toward issue recognition, situational awareness and public information regarding biological destruction of sharks and related or associated species and systems....
A Letter from Rob Stewart, Director of SHARKWATER
Help us convince Canada, New Zealand and United States to save two species of sharks.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
During the months of July and August, I and a select group of adventurers from Mexico, Australia, Germany, England, France, Spain, Singapore and the United States visited the nesting beaches of the...
A Letter from Rob Stewart, Director of SHARKWATER --
Help us convince Canada, New Zealand and United States to save two species of sharks.
The Convention on International Trade in...
Researchers have discovered a new fact about hooded seals, a mysterious 200 to 400 kilogram mammal that spends all but a few days each year in the ocean.
An international team of researchers...
With over 177,222 harp seals and seal babies slaughtered to date, it seems like things couldn't get much worse in Canada. Yet, brutality witnessed on the ice this month by the seal hunt observation...
Canada's giant basking sharks face extinction because of government measures decades ago to stop them disrupting salmon fishing, an official committee on threatened species said on Tuesday....
A new women's constant ballast freediving world record was set last Sunday with a depth of 88m / 289ft off Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands by a member of Performance Freediving International...
Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian...
Island communities that depend on coral reef fisheries could face a hungry future, according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries &...
Thin ice is killing baby seals in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence by the thousands and forcing the delay of the area's annual harp seal hunt for the second year in a row.
The controversial...
The first stage of Canada's controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal...
Canadian officials remained uncertain Wednesday if the controversial annual seal hunt can take place this year in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, citing higher-than-normal mortality rates of...
March 15th marks a sad day and brutal day for helpless baby seals in Canada - the start of Canada's horrendously unethical seal slaughter. Sea Shepherd is staging a major protest again this year....
A quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armoured body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists say.
They...
Global warming is making it harder for newborn harp seals to survive in the Gulf of St Lawrence and off Newfoundland in Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare reported on Friday....
Indonesia is to grant foreign visitors visas for up to 120 days compared to the current 30 days in a bid to boost tourism, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Thursday.
"It is now being...
Scientists say rapidly-melting sea ice is partially to blame for a five-fold increase in killer whale sightings in some parts of the Canadian Arctic.
Jeff Higdon, a researcher with a joint...
In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.
Following pilot testing...
According to a recent paper published by MBARI geologists and their colleagues, methane gas bubbling through seafloor sediments has created hundreds of low hills on the floor of the Arctic Ocean....
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Leviathan is underway to stop the Japanese whaling fleets' illegal slaughter of over a thousand whales. With its newly acquired ship named the M/Y...
A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major'' reason for the event.
The Ayles Ice Shelf-all 41...
A Canada based company, Sea Culture Ltd plans to breed Coral Reef in Sri Lanka. The project is 100% externally funded by a group of investors from Canada and the principle aim is to demonstrate...
Marine species loss is accelerating and threatening human well-being, according to a report published in the 3 November issue of the journal Science published by AAAS, the nonprofit science...
Canada's commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world.
Canada's 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial...
Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn says officials are working on new restrictions to keep protesters farther from the East Coast seal hunt.
During an appearance before the Commons fisheries...
A few weeks ago we ran an audience survey and we wish to thank all who participated! We had 3 signed copies of Mirko Zanni's new book to give away to 3 random survey respondents. We want to...
Canada will not support a moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters, putting it at odds with a growing number of countries now pressing for restrictions on the controversial fishing...
A few weeks ago we ran an audience survey and we wish to thank all who participated! We had 3 signed copies of Mirko Zanni's new book to give away to 3 random survey respondents. We want to...
When the phone rang, I was cranky from hours of intense work on boring matters. "Hello!" I barked.
"Mr. Cameron?" said the voice on the phone. "It's Peter Stoffer, MP...
BSoUP's second International Competition was judged at the Society's August meeting. Entries were received from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Monaco, the...
Stuart Cove's has announced that Sally Thomson has been named manager of the well-known Fin Photo operation. Thomson, a native of Montreal, Canada, has worked at Stuart Cove's for the last three...
Canada does not plan to join an international movement calling for a UN ban on bottom trawling on the high seas, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn said Tuesday after the minister met...
WE DESCRIBE Nova Scotia as Canada's ocean playground, so we have a unique responsibility to reverse the alarming deterioration of our marine ecosystems and resources.
Progress happens faster...
Costco is Now in the Baby Seal Killing Business!
Costco cowardly and falsely informed Sea Shepard that it removed the product because it was not making money. Yet, "Costco simply lied," said Sea...
With Canada preparing to go full-speed ahead on its annual seal hunt, Friends of Animals today unveiled an international tourism boycott to press the Canadian government to stop the kill....
Last year the Canadian seal slaughter realized $16 million in income to East Coast seal killers.
This year, Sea Shepherd member and supporter Kathy Kangas has offered $16 million to compensate...
Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed or shot without mercy this year alone-an annual harp seal slaughter subsidized by the Canadian government.
95% of the harp seals killed are...
BLOOD is spreading across the ice. Obscene scarlet on pure white.
At the stroke of 6am yesterday - right on schedule - Canada's annual slaughter of the seal pups got under way.
It's the...
The 10th annual Great Lakes Underwater event for scuba diving and shipwreck enthusiasts will be held April 8 from 9 am to 4:30 pm at SUNY Oswego. Speakers include noted maritime historian and...
Luna, the juvenile killer whale from Washington state waters who got lost in Canada's Nootka Sound five years ago, apparently died Friday when he was accidentally struck by a tugboat propeller,...
Divers wishing to explore the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald and two other Great Lakes shipwrecks in Canadian waters will need a license from the Ontario Ministry of Culture under a newly approved...
Canada's Atlantic fish will be squeezed into ever smaller patches of cool water, endangered Atlantic salmon will be doomed, and key boreal forest species will be stranded as their natural habitats...
Scientists aboard pioneering icebreaking ships investigate ocean conditions in unexplored region to better understand Arctic's role in global climate change
Two ships taking part in a recently...
The international agency that manages the fishery on the high seas has done such a miserable job of protecting fish stocks that it needs to introduce a moratorium on the controversial practice of...
Ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic hit an all-time high last year, raising concerns about the effects of global warming on one of the most sensitive and productive ecosystems in the world....
Thirteen years after the world rallied to curb overfishing, most nations are failing to abide by the U.N.'s code of conduct for managing fisheries, scientists found
Inevitably there comes a point for most underwater photographers when your focus shifts from the excitement of taking pictures underwater to the finer points of your equipment and technique that...
