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50th Anniversary Of Deep Sea Discovery
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The deepest part of the ocean, sitting at 35,800 feet was explored for the first time 50 years ago today
1,000 Feet Deep, New Haven For Rare Corals
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A federal panel has protected 23,000 square miles of deepwater corals, believed to be the world's largest such ecosystem, off the coast of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida
Three New Coral Species Discovered In The Galapagos
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Scientists have discovered three new coral species - and one that was thought to be extinct - in an extensive survey of reefs around the Galapagos Islands
Oldest Seahorse Fossils Discovered
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The oldest seahorse fossils discovered to date have been uncovered in pictures. National Geographic has the images on their website. The story behind how these fossils were discovered makes the...
Expedition Reveals Three Previously Unknwon Coral Reefs Off Florida's Coast
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the first expedition using state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicles to survey, map and identify large areas of the ocean bottom, researchers discovered three previously unknown Lophelia...
Mistaken Identity Leads Researchers To Two New Extinct Species Of Coral
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What began as an homage to achievement in the field of coral reef geology has evolved into the discovery of an unexpected link between corals of the Pacific and Atlantic.
Coral Reef Discovered in Seychelles
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Scientists discovered a coral reef in the Seychelles off Curieuse Island that is home to more than 200 giant tortoises.
Rare Seahorse Found In New England
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A Seahorse found in the Gulf of Mexico and Bermuda was found in Connecticut.
Clash Of Predators As Shark Eats Polar Bear
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Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of the jawbone of a young polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark...
Shark Found In Durham...After 240M Years
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THE first complete fossil of an ancient British shark was unveiled today by the Natural History Museum.
Stricken Boat Off the Coast of Bali Underscores Threats - Unregulated Fishing
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This discovery highlights that efforts to prevent illicit fishing activities from occurring have been unsuccessful
Scientists Discover New Reefs Teeming With Marine Life In Brazil
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Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast...
Odyssey Marine Gets $2-million For Discovery Channel Series
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Promising deep-sea adventure and battles with the weather and political red tape, Tampa shipwreck exploration company Odyssey Marine has struck a deal for an 11-episode series with the Discovery...
Scientists Announce Discovery of New Species
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Australian scientists announced the discovery of a new species of freshwater fish on Tuesday, two decades after it was sighted in a disused uranium mine in the outback Northern Territory
Sharks Travel "Superhighways" Visit "Cafes"
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Sharks follow well-traveled "superhighways" among feeding hot spots, new research suggests. The discovery should allow scientists to create better conservation strategies for the fish
Two New Shark Species Found
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Two new species of wobbegongs, otherwise known as carpet sharks, have been found in Western Australian waters.
Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Trigger Huge Plankton Blooms In Eastern Atlantic
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Scientists on board RRS Discovery are at sea studying the Saharan dust that blows off the coast of Africa - triggering huge plankton blooms in the eastern Atlantic
Scientists Discovers Six New Species Of Fish In Indian Ocean
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Working aboard the Royal Research Ship Discovery, Dr. Nikki King was part of a team on the Benthic Crozet project, a research initiative investigating biodiversity off the Crozet Islands, a small...
Deep-Ocean Drilling Researchers Target Earthquake and Tsunami Zone
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Researchers fresh from an eight-week scientific drilling expedition off the Pacific coast of Japan today reported their discovery of strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region notorious...
Cambodia, UN Launch Project to Save Dolphins
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Cambodia and the UN have launched a joint project aimed at saving endangered Irrawaddy dolphins from extinction, the international body's World Tourism Organization said Tuesday.
The Mekong...
Oldest Known Jellyfish Fossils Found
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The oldest known fossils of jellyfish have been found in rocks in Utah that are more than 500 million years old, a new study reports.
The fossils are an unusual discovery because soft-bodied...
Novel Fishing Method Finds Rare Fish
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A novel way of catching fish - stunning them with an electric current - has helped Northern Territory researchers rediscover a rare species.
The Lorentz's Grunter (Pingalla lorentzi) was found...
Shark Researcher Works To Debunk Myths, Study Evolution
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Turns out, the color of blood doesn't get much reaction from sharks. It's the scent that attracts them.
"These ideas are repeated over and over," said Stephen Kajiura, who began...
Mathematics Of Ice To Aid Global Warming Forecasts
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University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice -- a discovery that promises to improve forecasts of how global warming...
'Incredibly Lucky' Find Yields Important Fish Fossil
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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...
Oceana: Unique Eco-system Discovered
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OCEANA has captured the first images of "Seco de Palos", a seamount 35 miles from the coast of Murcia in Spain
The discovery was made during the project Oceana is undertaking in...
Shark Week...It's What's For Dinner?
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Ever since Jaws debuted in 1975, Americans have been obsessed with sharks. And for the past 20 years, the Discovery Channel has been capitalizing on both our love and fear of the underwater...
Open Letter To Discovery Networks Shark Week
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In response to the programming content of this year's Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, members of the International SHARK-L Discussion List have recently got together to write the following...
Open Letter to Discovery Networks
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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...
Tiger Sharks Keep Seagrass Tidy
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Australian tiger sharks keep a tidy lawn for their marine neighbors by controlling where local herbivores can nibble, according to a study published in the current issue of Animal Behavior.
The...
In The Sea Of The Strait Of Messina
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The Ionian and the Tyrrhenian seas mix their waters in correspondence with a very particular arm of sea, with unique characteristics in the whole Mediterranean sea: we are in the waters of the...
Fish Punish Mating Queue Jumpers
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Fish use the threat of punishment to keep would-be jumpers in the mating queue firmly in line and the social order stable, a new study led by Australian marine scientists has found.
Their...
International Team To Honor 30th Anniversary Of Deep-sea Vent Discovery In GalA??’A‚A?pagos
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An international team of scientists will mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark discovery of the first volcanic hot vent at a special meeting and public event in the GalA??’A‚A?pagos Islands,...
Galapagos Tortoises: Untangling The Evolutionary Threads
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Giant tortoises taste good. At least they did to pirates and whalers who had spent months at sea eating the same dry rations day in, day out. Soon after the discovery of the Galapagos Islands in...
More Nests Found Of Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles In Texas
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Discovery of 20 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this week has broken by 16 last year's record nestings by the endangered species on Texas beaches, scientists said Friday.
In 2006, the total of...
German Sub Hunter To Talk About The Eagle Wing Dive Site
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Scuba diver and French Creek Marina owner Wilburt C. Wahl, Jr. of Clayton, NY, is hunting a German submarine that sank in May of 1942 - not in the waters off France or England, but in the St....
Cool Shots: The Big Cat Who Likes Getting Wet And Wild
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Most cats do not like getting wet - as anyone who has tried to bathe a moggie will know.
But as these pictures show, there's always the exception to the rule. For the cat in question is a large...
Blue Water, White Death Scheduled For DVD Release
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In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week, MGM Home Entertainment honors the primal predator with three never before released on DVD shark films, available July...
New Creature Found Living In Dead Whale
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A new species of sea anemone has been found in the carcass of a whale that sunk to the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey, California, marking the first discovery of one of these filter-feeding...
Penguins Die Agonising Deaths In Shark Net Trap
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Twenty-three of the birds suffered agonising deaths when they were caught in the massive net. They drowned in the trap, which was floating in Port Phillip Bay off Queenscliff.
Shocked wildlife...
Abu Dhabi Unveils Big Eco-tourism Project
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Abu Dhabi yesterday launched a Dh11.5 billion eco-tourism project - Desert Islands - combining six nature reserves spread across eight islands, including Sir Bani Yas, Dalma and Discovery, an...
Scientists Baffled As Florida Diver Captures Sea Serpent On Video
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It's not the Loch Ness Monster or the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but a creature recently caught on tape by a Florida diver does have scientists scratching their heads.
Underwater...
Scientists Discover First Seafloor Vents On Ultraslow-spreading Ridge
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Scientists have found one of the largest fields of seafloor vents gushing super-hot, mineral-rich fluids on a mid-ocean ridge that, until now, remained elusive to the ten-year hunt to find them....
Discovery Offers Epic Look At Earth
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There is no way to overstate the spectacularness of the photography in Discovery Channel's dazzling 11-hour nature documentary "Planet Earth."
The first three hours premiere tonight at...
All Creatures Great, Small ...and Endangered
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After completing the nature documentary "The Blue Planet" - a $10 million, eight-part BBC series that took 20 camera teams five years to shoot, spawned an international concert tour based on its...
New Species Of Snapper Discovered In Brazil
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popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actually a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic Ocean.
The international science...
Aquarium Fish Threatened With Extinction Just Months After Discovery
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Just months after the discovery of a colorful new aquarium fish in Southeast Asia, worldwide demand and intense exportation are already causing concern about the survival of the species.
The...
Review: One Breath
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I am inspired. Fred Buyle's images are pure eye candy. A master of available light, all photographs are taken sans strobe and on 'one breath' - no tank, no noise, pure freediving. Emma Farrell...
Mysteries Of The Atlantic
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Cardiff University scientists will shortly set sail (March 5) to investigate a startling discovery in the depths of the Atlantic.
Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square...
Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth
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Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.
The discovery marks the first...
"Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind?" - Deep Sea Trawling
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This rare sighting of a living frilled shark in such shallow waters was firstly reported to marine park scientists by a fisherman. The incredible video of the prehistoric shark was definitely very...
Study Finds Subglacial Water In West Antarctica More Active Than Observed
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The recent discovery of a subglacial water system beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) is causing scientists to rethink the mechanisms that control the flow of ice streams into the Ross Ice...
Undersea Vent Blows Blue
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Undersea 'hotspots', which spew super-hot, mineral-rich fluids out of the sea floor and play host to a variety of weird marine life, just got weirder: scientists have found one blowing out blue...
Fish Capable Of Human-like Logic
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Fish have the reasoning capacity of a 4- or 5-year-old child when it comes to figuring out who among their peers is "top dog," new research shows.
Stanford University scientists made...
More Australians In Scuba Diving Hall Of Fame - Neville Coleman And Rodney Fox
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Neville Coleman (featured in DPG galleries) who has spent 50 years recording marine life in Australia and overseas is to be inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.
Neville has...
Divers Find U Boats Off Cornwall
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Three sunken German U boats have been discovered by divers off Newquay in Cornwall. Historians believe the discovery of the badly damaged wartime vessels has uncovered a minefield operation which...
Review Of Silent Symphony By Tony Wu And William Tan
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Structured as an extended metaphor comparing the sea with a symphony, the magnificent Silent Symphony comprises four chapters-or, to keep with the conceit-four "movements": Discovery, Fascination,...
Gulf Stream Weakened In 'Little Ice Age'
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The Gulf Stream - the ocean current that helps to bring warm weather to much of the North Atlantic region - was significantly weakened during the period known to historians as the Little Ice Age,...
Ocean Creatures Linked To Cloud Cover Increases
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Atmospheric scientists have reported a new and potentially important mechanism by which chemical emissions from ocean phytoplankton may influence the formation of clouds that reflect sunlight away...
Reef Insight On Global Meltdown
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THE discovery of a fossilised coral reef sitting high and dry at the southern tip of Western Australia has provided a warning that climate change is likely to cause a catastrophic melting of ice...
Researchers Link Ocean Organisms With Increased Cloud Cover And Potential Climate Change
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Atmospheric scientists have reported a new and potentially important mechanism by which chemical emissions from ocean phytoplankton may influence the formation of clouds that reflect sunlight away...
Fossils Of Ancient Sea Monster Found In Montana
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A fossil-hunting trip to celebrate a son's homecoming resulted in the recent discovery of an ancient sea monster in central Montana.
Believed to be approximately 70 million years old, its skull...
Japanese Researchers Find Dolphin With 'Remains Of Legs'
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Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that...
Steve Irwin's Daughter Gets Own TV Show
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The 8-year-old daughter of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, who was killed by a stingray, is to follow in her father's footsteps by starring in a new TV series, sparking a debate about...
Revealing Sea Turtles' Journeys
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Four captive-bred green sea turtles were scheduled for a first experience of the deep sea yesterday.
The 2-year-old animals were brought on board the NCL Pride of Hawai'i, which was scheduled to...
Marine Biologists Puzzled By Stray Mammals Off N.J. Coast
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Hooded seals, bottlenose whales and a manatee have been spotted in the waters of the northeastern U.S., leaving marine biologists puzzled as to why they have strayed from their natural habitats....
Shark Week 2006 Starts July 30 On Discovery Channel
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Stuart Cove's once again instrumental in producing original programming for Discovery Channel's SHARK WEEK...
Hidden Prehistoric Ecosystem Discovered In Israel Cave
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Discovery of eight previously unknown, ancient animal species within "a new and unique underground ecosystem" in Israel was revealed today by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers...
First Comprehensive Handbook On Coral Reef Restoration Published
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As an undergraduate student in 1978, William F. (Bill) Precht first explored coral reefs at Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica. Now Precht, who is Ecological Sciences Program Manager for...
Deep-Water Discovery
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Last December, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researchers using advanced sonar techniques discovered new deepwater reef sites in the Straits of Florida...
Discovery Of New Species Of Fish Gives Evolution Clues
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A Chinese research team has discovered four fossils of a new species of fish dating back 400 million years which may provide clues to the evolution of fish.
Dr. Zhu Min, the leading...
Jean-Michel Cousteau Finds A Bounty Of Trash In A Remote Island Paradise
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In another age, a grand sea voyage might have ended in the discovery of an unknown island or even a whole continent. These days it ends in the discovery of litter...
New Shark Species Discovered In The Sea Of Cortez; 'Mustelus Hacat'
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Mexican marine biologist has discovered a new shark species in the murky depths of Mexico's Sea of Cortez, the first new shark find in the wildlife-rich inlet in 34 years...
New Species Awaits Discovery In Endau-Rompin National Park
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The exciting discovery of new flora and fauna at the Foja Mountains in Indonesia recently has raised the possibility of similar finding in the Endau-Rompin National Park, bordering Johor and...
Amphibico Announces Discovery 10 Watt HID Video Light
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Amphibico is proud to introduce the new compact 10 Watt Discovery HID light.
A fully aluminum compact light which will mount on any Amphibico video housing to provide a clean and natural light...
Filipinos Discover Filmmaking Through Mobile Technology
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THEY were up against professionals, recalls Janice Yu, grand prize winner of the First Time Mobile Filmmakers Award organized by Discovery Networks Asia and Nokia.
Yu's award-winning film...
Top Photos Of 2005: Whale Found In Egypt Desert
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Kicking off our list of the most viewed National Geographic News photos of the year is one whale of a discovery.
Egypt may not be the first place you'd look for whales, but once upon a time the...
Scripps Researchers Rediscover Elusive Site Of Exploding Volcanic Rocks
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Scientists aboard the Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle this week solved a 45-year-old geological mystery.
In 1960, Scripps oceanographer Dale Krause reported the discovery of extraordinary...
Expedition To Help Protect Florida's Unique Oculina Deepwater Reefs 30 Years After Their Discovery
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On Tuesday, Oct. 3, scientists will begin a nine-day expedition to explore one of Florida's most vital but least familiar marine resources -- the spectacular deepwater coral reefs of the Oculina...
Discovering An Ecosystem Beneath A Collapsed Antarctic Ice Shelf
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The chance discovery of a vast ecosystem beneath the collapsed Larsen Ice Shelf will allow scientists to explore the uncharted life below Antarctica's floating ice shelves and further probe the...
Shark Week Returns On The Discovery Channel
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For those of you sharks fans out there...Shark Week premiers Sunday July 17th and will continue through July 24th.
Stan Waterman Releases Autobiography Detailing Underwater Adventures
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Read first hand accounts of diving with sharks in the open ocean (out of the cage) and filming them for the movies Blue Water, White Death the Deep and more. In 1994 the Discovery Channel presented...
Coral Reef Expedition Yields Sealife Surprises
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University of South Florida researchers made big news in January when they announced the discovery of the deepest coral reef in the United States.
On Friday, a team of scientists returned from...
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NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY and DIVERS ALERT NETWORK (DAN) are proud to announce a new alliance to host the third annual OCEAN VIEWS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, open to all levels of photographers...
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