James Cameron and his team have released a photograph taken from a recent dive to the seafloor not too far from his famous dive into the Mariana Trench.
After a five year review, NOAA's Fisheries Service has determined that the Caribbean monk seal, which has not been seen for more than 50 years, has gone extinct-the first type of seal to go extinct...
A teeming horde of brittle stars has been discovered atop an undersea mountain chain near Antarctica, challenging long-held assumptions about the ecological role of such submerged peaks, known as...
One of our concerned members, Edward Dorson, brought this issue to my attention this week, after he responded to an appeal recently made by underwater photographer Walt Stearns. Somehow the...
A scientific study showed that endangered Hawaiian monk seals get trapped in marine debris more frequently during El Nino years than other years.
El Nino refers to a warming of the tropical...
After six years of political debate and scientific study, California is poised Tuesday to become the first state in the nation to create a broad network of ``no fishing'' zones off its coast with...
In my last podcast I discussed an interesting scientific study by Barker and Roberts that described the impact divers have on coral reefs - especially in relation to underwater photography.
This...
Through the fog inside my dive mask, which is suctioned to my face so hard that my nose feels like a bulldog's, I wink stinging salt out of one eye and peer down through the water at a wrinkled...
There's good news and bad news about sea shells. Studies of details as small as a billionth of a meter reveal a structure more sophisticated than any marine biologist had imagined. At the same...
