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Vanished beneath the waters of the Mediterranean, the lost cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus lay at the mouth of the Nile.
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Project Nautilus, a non-profit organization created with the goal of breaking the Guinness World Record is reportedly on track to meet its goal of shattering the standing record, and raising $1,000,000.00 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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The tiny Pacific nation of Palau has approved the establishment of a marine sanctuary twice the size of Mexico. Conservationists said the 500,000 sq. km sanctuary would be the world’s sixth-largest fully protected area.
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Earlier today Joan Forsberg, 'WDHOF New Member Selection Committee Chair', announced the six new Members that will constitute the Class of 2015.
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She was named after the 48th state in the United States. She is of course the USS Arizona. Today her commissioning birthday is being celebrated with a live transmitted dive on this historic wreck, conducted by key personnel from the NPS.
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Are Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) meeting their ecological goals?
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Besides the coral bleaching taking place across Hawaii caused by record warmer temperatures, coral bleaching has spread to the Caribbean, having originated from the Florida Keys and South Florida.
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Environmentalist group Greenpeace claims to have uncovered a pirate fishing operation near Papua New Guinea. The group said similar cases were the “tip of the iceberg” of pirate fishing which had driven a sharp decline in tuna populations.
Such crabs have specially evolved to a more compact size so that they can hide in the nooks and small spaces within the coral reefs.
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This situation is expected to last till November or December, with temperatures hovering around three to six degrees Fahrenheit higher than normal.
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12,026 nests have been counted – the highest number to date - and the nesting season has two more months to go.
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The size of a fingernail, the bone was found at the site of a lake or pond during the Late Triassic period. This was a period that fish were thought to be extinct in North America.
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Identified to be from the extinct Antillothrix bernensis monkey, the shin bone had been embedded in a limestone rock in the Padre Nuestro Cave in Altagracia Province, Dominician Republic.
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Developed by roboticists from Queensland University of Technology, this is the world's first robot designed to search and destroy (so to speak) the dreaded crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS).
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Limbaugh was one of the first to combine diving with research. Following his death in 1960 the AAUS (American Academy of Underwater Science) created the “Conrad Limbaugh Memorial Award for Scientific Diving Leadership”.
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On August 23rd, Cosimo Muscianisi, 30, and Dario Polimeni, 52, will cross the 3.3km passage that divides the Italian peninsula and Sicily. Personnel from DAN Europe will be at the scene to provide scientific and medical support.
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