Hopes of scuttling the Vandenburg to form an artificial reef six miles miles south of Key West, in 140 feet of water in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, has been plagued with financial problems for some time now. The

With a name like "Leatherback Turtle" you might think the sea turtles could stand up to just about anything the ocean can throw at them, and for more than a hundred million years, they have. But tough, long-lived critters though

Causing quite a stir among scientists and the latest attraction for sightseers in Bight, is a baby albino humpback whale. Swimming alongside it's mother and about thirty five other whales, including about ten calves, the albino calf is thought to

One very lucky grey nurse shark was rescued from a slow and anagonising death after divers found it with a fishing gaff embedded in it's throat and reported it to the authorities. She was seen hiding near Julian Rocks in

The rarest dolphin in the world, the Maui's dolphin, which numbers only one hundred and eleven individuals, is finally to receive protection over more of it's range. The Maui dolphin lives only along the west coast of New Zealand’s North

Low level of bleaching in Caribbean this year, more severe bleaching expected in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year, but the event

A comprehensive survey of coral biodiversity in Panama's Las Perlas Archipelago by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and their colleagues, has resulted in clear conservation recommendations for a new coastal management plan... "To evaluate strategies for the protection

The International Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO), Bahamas and the DIVEHEART FOUNDATION of Downers Grove, Illinois are pleased to announce the first disabled dive training course for instructors and dive buddies. DiveHeart Foundation was founded in 2001 and is a non-profit

Re-seeding programmes on over 50 reefs are securing the survival of the giant clam for at least another generation, according to WWF-Philippines. The clams, the world’s largest bivalve mollusks and the star of lurid but mostly imaginary literary and cinematic

Diving at the ancient antiquity site at Yavne-Yam, just south of Tel-Aviv, David Shalom, a lifeguard, unearthed a 2,500 year old rare marble discus. The discus was used to protect ships from the 'evil eye' and to date only four

Doubling the size of the southern Atlantic's largest reef system Fort Lauderdale, FL Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off

Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles Darwin... All adult flatfishes--including the gastronomically familiar

In a voice vote, the House tightened a 2000 law that bans the practice of shark finning, where, mainly, Pacific Ocean fishermen cut off a shark's fin and throw the dying fish back into the sea. Shark fin soup is

VERMILION, Ohio -- For more than a century, no one knew exactly where the sidewheel steamer Anthony B. Wayne came to rest. Now researchers are diving 60 feet below the surface of Lake Erie to explore the wreckage discovered in