The winners of the Beneath The Sea 2010 International Imaging Competition, one of the major competitions for underwater photography, have been announced
Mike Bartick returns home to California after an excursion to the Philippines. His home coming is very rewarding with many nudibranchs to be found in the 7th installment of his "Going...
Residents near a San Diego-area beach awoke to find dozens of jumbo squid, also called Humboldt squid, flapping helplessly on the shore Saturday—about an hour after an earthquake had struck off the...
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a family of green
fluorescent proteins
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will host the Southern California premiere of the film, "A Sea Change," the first documentary about ocean acidification
Scripps researchers among international signatories to the Monaco Declaration, an assessment of increased ocean carbon dioxide uptake and call
to action
The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is proud to announce that its 40th Annual Film Festival will be held April 25, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic...
Research on the genome of a marine creature led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is shedding new light on a key area of the tree of life
Hugh Bradner, a UC physicist whose love of the ocean and curiosity about everything in it led him to revolutionize diving by inventing the neoprene wetsuit
Jeremy Jackson, renowned marine ecologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has been selected to receive the 11th annual Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard...
While fish populations have been decimated by overfishing worldwide, a research team have recently found how the practice can also endanger coral reefs.
On Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, 2008, SCUBA divers from Seattle to San Diego will converge on Monterey, California to compete for top prizes in a unique underwater photo competition
We lost one of the true pioneers in diving Ralph White. He was an innovator, very experienced and a leader. White combined his love for adventure and cinematography.
Populations of tiger, bull, dusky and other sea sharks have plummeted by more than 95 percent since the 1970s as fisherman kill the animals for their fins or when they scoop other fish from the ocean
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have now shed light on the puzzling mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California by proposing a plausible mechanism...
New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events
A precarious population of great white sharks and the ongoing scientific research intended to secure their survival is the subject of "Island of the Great White Shark", a just completed documentary...
Emperor penguins may have a supercharged form of a blood protein that allows them to dive underwater for more than 20 minutes on a single breath, a new study suggests.
The research showed that...
Gates had on display their solid-built mechanical housings for the high end Canon XH-A1/G1 cameras, as well as housings for the more popular prosumer Sony HC-7. The Sony HC-3 was a very popular...
The DPG / Wetpixel booth became somewhat of a home base for underwater imagery folks to stop by and spend time among our own. Walking the aisles, and hanging out at the fairly lavish parties, we...
Fluorescent proteins found in nature have been employed in a variety of scientific research purposes, from markers for tracing molecules in biomedicine to probes for testing environmental quality....
The worldus first certified sustainable tuna fishery was announced today, a move that could help save one of the worldus most valuable fish u" and the fishing industry that relies on it u" from...
The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) has awarded a $97.7 million contract to an academic partnership led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), to support the development,...
Ever wonder what goes into manufacturing a Gates Underwater Video Housing? We did, so we took a trip to San Diego to answer that question for ourselves. Gates Underwater Products has long been...
Seacamp San Diego offers year-round marine biology programs; during the winter, the offerings are geared toward science classes from around the country. In the summer, campers from 12 to 17 years...
Florida State University has received a $2.6 million grant through the U.S. National Science Foundation to study the Southern Ocean's climate effects.
The project involving the ocean that...
An initiated global correspondence toward issue recognition, situational awareness and public information regarding biological destruction of sharks and related or associated species and systems....
Sharks get a bad rap in the media, often portrayed as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters. But there's a profound change going on in the world's oceans, as sharks go from predator to prey.
It's...
The first dead dolphin washed ashore with lacerations on its pectoral fin. The next showed up with a fatal bullet wound. Within a week, there were three more with bullets in their heads.
Federal...
Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have solved the genomic puzzle of an organism discovered in the oceans...
What we know about the world's oceans comes largely from ship-based scientists taking samples and making measurements at periodic intervals. Now researchers led by Scripps Institution of...
The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (www.NCUPS.org), proudly announces the 2007 California Beach Dive Photo Competition, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and...
An international team of scientists led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Joint Genome Institute has peered into the genetic makeup of two...
A bloom of ocean algae that produces a toxic acid has sickened and killed hundreds of birds, sea lions and dolphins in California, environmentalists said.
Birds and animals have been washing up...
This is a call for entries for the 8th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 12th & 13th, 2007 at the Qualcomm Hall located at 5775...
In a world of high-tech sensors and underwater robotics, Koa the bottlenose dolphin and others like her may still be the U.S. Navy's best line of defense against terrorists in scuba gear....
New High Capacity Direct Attached Desktop Hard Drive with Hot-Swappable Drives Delivers Reliable, High Performance Storage For Small Businesses and Others
San Diego, March 29, 2007- Iomega...
Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for...
Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for...
The U.S. Coast Guard seized a Mexican fishing boat carrying tons of shark and an undisclosed number of shark fins after the vessel was spotted Sunday allegedly poaching 11 miles inside U.S....
In a surprising move, the Mexican government has recently published sweeping new regulations and protections for sharks, including a shark finning ban, an extension of the moratorium on new...
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...
Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging a new understanding of the largest mammals on Earth. In one recently published study...
Dozens of dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and apprehend waterborne attackers could be sent to patrol a military base in Washington state, US Navy said Monday. In a notice published in this...
A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping - diminishing - deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground...
Creatures of the deep have long been a subject of mystery and curiosity. Some local photographers sought out to capture a glimpse of life beneath the ocean's surface.
Photographers got some of...
This was my first Dive trip in a long, time. I always wanted to see the White Sharks and when I first heard about the expedition by email from Norbert Wu including Eric on the trip I thought it was...
San Diego State has teamed with a local multimedia company in an interdisciplinary effort to illustrate and explain basic biological principles specific to coral reef science...
The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious.
New...
The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly due to the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of geologists,...
Welcome to my paradise - diving with sharks. While some people hope they never have to see a shark, others are worried that they're not seeing enough.
The best chance to see a shark may be...
The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (NCUPS), is proud to present a very special seminar, "Dancing with the Demons," a 90-minute presentation about scuba diving with the Giant...
Scientists use deep ocean historical records to find an abrupt ocean circulation reversal caused by greenhouse gas warming.
New research produced by scientists at Scripps Institution of...
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...
Paul Dayton, professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, has been selected as winner of the 2004 NOGI Award, science category, by the...
Three wild dolphins living in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda are surprising scientists in San Diego and a worldwide audience following the dolphins' daily swims and dives via the...
Unprecedented study describes sources contributing to decline of Caribbean reefs.
Their position at the pinnacle of the marine food chain is legendary.
Now, understanding sharks and their...
This is the 9th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, August 22nd & 23rd, 2008, at the beautiful Qualcomm Hall in San Diego, California.
Here...
On Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, 2008, SCUBA divers from Seattle to San Diego will converge on Monterey, California to compete for top prizes in one of the most unique underwater photo...
The San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition (UFEX) had its debut in 2000 with a night of underwater digital films presented at the Otto Center of the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park.
Initiated in...
The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is proud to announce that its 40th Annual Film Festival will be held April 25, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
This year's film festival will feature...
SCUBA Show 2010 will take place in Long Beach, California on May 15th and 16th. SCUBA Show 2009 had an attendance of 10,202 and the SCUBA Show has consistently had attendance of over 10,000 for...
August 24, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
11th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition
Friday and Saturday evenings, September 17 and 18th, 2010 7:00 pm
The judges’ results are...
Entries are open now for the 2010 San Diego Undersea Film Exhibition. Follow the link for entry requirements. http://sdufex.com/Guidelines/guidelines.html
This is the 9th Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings, August 22nd & 23rd, 2008, at the beautiful Qualcomm Hall in San Diego, California.
Here...
On Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, 2008, SCUBA divers from Seattle to San Diego will converge on Monterey, California to compete for top prizes in one of the most unique underwater photo...
The San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition (UFEX) had its debut in 2000 with a night of underwater digital films presented at the Otto Center of the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park.
Initiated in...
The San Diego Underwater Photographic Society (SDUPS) is proud to announce that its 40th Annual Film Festival will be held April 25, 2009 in San Diego, CA.
This year's film festival will feature...
