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Ascension Island Conservation is recruiting

4 years 1 month ago By Rosemary E Lunn

You will be working with the Conservation and Fisheries Team to deliver the objectives of the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area.

St Helena

4 years 4 months ago By Scott Bennett

Sitting in the South Atlantic 1,200 miles west of Southern Africa and 1,800 miles east of South America, St Helena is the dictionary definition of isolated.

Titanic diving tours delayed until 2019

6 years 1 month ago By Scott Bennett

Deep-pocketed tourists waiting to explore the 20th century’s most famous maritime wreck will have to wait a little longer. American submersible company OceanGate has pushed back diving expeditions to the Titanic wreck site to 2019.

App allows the public to follow whales

7 years 10 months ago By Main Minion

The Underwater gliders deployed by Dalhousie University can dive to a depth of 200m, detect whale calls up to 100km away and stay at sea for up to three months.

St Helena: Reefs, Wrecks & Whale Sharks in the South Atlantic

8 years 10 months ago By Main Minion

Much has been made of the new airport on St Helena Island. And much has been made of the dramatic landings on St Helena. Our reality was simple: a three-hour-and-15-minute flight from our last refuelling stop over the azure Atlantic Ocean.

Great Whites takes decades to reach maturity

9 years 6 months ago By Main Minion

Counting "band pairs," which are series of rings that alternate between translucent and opaque within the sharks' vertebrae scientists looked at band-pair data from 77 sharks that were captured between 1963 and 2010.

Sargasso Sea Granted Protection

10 years 5 months ago By Scott Bennett

The Sargasso Sea, a vast patch of mid-Atlantic Ocean renowned for its unique floating seaweeds, is finally being granted protection.

South Georgia

11 years 11 months ago By Main Minion

South Georgia has an interesting historical heritage. It is a whale sanctuary and a cemetery.

WW2 tanker sunk by German U-boat in St Helena to be surveyed

12 years 4 months ago By Main Minion

The Dale class were a class of replenishment oilers taken up for service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, supporting the Royal Navy during the inter-war period. The went on to see action during the Second World War.

Stingrays - Winged Wonders of the Canary Islands

12 years 11 months ago By Main Minion

At first sight, the aquatic desert appears to be devoid of life, but appearances can be deceiving.

Crossing the Altantic

12 years 11 months ago By Svetlana Murashkina

By this point in history, nobody had yet taken the responsibility of determining the validity of oceanography as a science.

Basking sharks trek across Atlantic

13 years 11 months ago By Main Minion

Giant basking sharks like to take tropical vacations too.

Northern bluefin tuna captured in an aquarium.

1,000th giant bluefin tuna tagged

13 years 11 months ago By Main Minion

(Stanford University, Dalhousie University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, working in collaboration with Canadian fishermen from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.)

Almost 90 percent of floating marine debris is plastic.

Atlantic also has a giant garbage patch

14 years 6 months ago By Main Minion

Swathes full of drifting plastic bits are especially common in a region of the Pacific Ocean southwest of California that is sometimes called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Wreck of HMS Victory may be found

15 years 7 months ago By Main Minion

Brass cannons

1721 Cornwall shipwreck to be further studied

16 years 2 months ago By Main Minion

The Royal Anne Galley was a fifth-rate galley frigate with an armament of 42 guns was wrecked on the Stags rocks on 10 November 1721 while on voyage to the Barbados. There were only three survivors out of some 200 passengers and crew.