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The international volunteer diver organisation - formerly known as 'Ghost Fishing' - was founded in 2012 to locate and remove lost, snagged and entangled fishing gear or 'ghost fishing' equipment from our oceans and seas, across the globe.
,Duncan Simpson founded 'Project Baseline UK North Sea Wrecks' with the intention of surveying and documenting certain wrecks in the 30 m / 98 ft range, sunk between St Abbs Head, Berwickshire, Scotland and Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, Engl
,John Wheeler is based in Cornwall. The county benefits from several marine initiatives. "We are all in it together, so it is a not an issue if we dive the same patch.
,Read morePascal van Erp has created a radical and important aspect in our sport. Less than a decade ago the diving community was not really aware of ghost fishing, let alone ghost diving. Rosemary E Lunn
Zoologist Douglas Bastos from the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus, Brazil, and his team have captured video footage of Volta’s electric eels hunting in groups of more than 100.
Read moreCoral reef fish start their lives as small, transparent larvae. After they hatch, they join a swirling sea of plankton and frequently get dispersed to different reefs due to ocean currents, waves and the wind.
Read moreResearchers have known that an animal swimming parallel to a solid surface receive a subsequent boost in performance, thus allowing them to utilise less energy when moving around.
Read moreInspired by this, the engineers at Rutgers University–New Brunswick have developed a 3D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to light, as well as a 3D-printed stretchy material that can reveal colours when the light changes.
Read moreResearch jointly conducted by The Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS), Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) emphasises the importance of oyster reefs in mitigating some problems associated w
Read moreMost of these sounds were measured at more than 21 kHz, which is beyond the range of human hearing of 20 to 20,000 hertz. A particular high-pitched whistle came in at 49.8 kHz.
Read moreCalled "active displacement" of fish, this behaviour usually takes place during collaborative hunting efforts that both the octopus and fish engage in.
Read moreCurrently, there are only 400 of these whales left in the wild.
Read moreThe coral sanctuary is a wildlife hotspot where species are thriving despite warming events that have killed their neighbours.
Read moreOverfishing has reduced biomass of most sharks and other large predatory fishes worldwide by over 90 percent, and even remote locations have been severely impacted.
Read moreResearchers from James Cook University's ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies examined stomach contents of reef sharks and conducted chemical analyses of shark body tissue to find out what they had been eating.
Read moreSea anemones have long been known to release very powerful olfactory compounds, which might best be described as perfumes.
Read moreIt all starts east of the Philippines where the constant blowing of the tradewinds and the ocean currents forces huge masses of water up against the Philippines, where it is trapped and forced southwards.
Read moreOne evening in late December, fish were splashing in the glowing surface at the western edge of the fringe lagoon.
Read moreThis makes the otherwise unassuming Arctica islandica clam the longest lived animal species on record, though some corals are probably much older.
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