A 44- year-old man has become the first person to swim across the world's highest navigable lake in Peru. Ruben Medina, has swum Lake Titicaca without stopping. Lake Titicana...
By Hazel Mollison:
People enjoying a quiet stroll could not believe their eyes when they saw a three-metre shark lurking in the shallows.
The basking shark, which had strayed from...
From wetpixel.com:
On August 25, 2007, Antonio Moreano, a naturalist in the Galapagos, photographed an albino whale shark at Darwin, the northern-most island of the Galapagos. ...
From Dive Magazine:
Corals have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species for the first time, as the...
From Dive Magazine News:
Technical divers have recovered the body of their colleague who died while filming a sunken German U boat 16 miles off the coast of...
From National Geographic News:
Ancient corals may have been more adaptable to changing ocean chemistry than previously thought, a new study shows.
The findings may offer hope that if...
More than 700kg of rubbish was removed from famous deep diving sites in the Egyptian Sinai resort of Dahab. Organised by the northern Egyptian resort diving centre Desert Divers,...
WASHINGTON – One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be...
From Dive Magazine:
One of the world's most prestigious underwater film and photography festivals has been slammed for its decision to hold its 2007 event at...
As reported from Marine Connection:
Kerzner-CapitaLand and Genting Group have each proposed over US$3.2billion for a resort on the island of Sentosa in Singapore. Each company...
From Okinawa Churami Aquarium:
A Manta ray was born in the Kuroshio tank, Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan. This is the first known manta birth in captivity....
Dimitris Vassilakis, avid spearfisher and freediver, and international judge for AIDA died recently during a spearfishing trip. His funeral was on 9th September and he was accompanied...
The critically endangered Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, has been sighted in eastern China, Chinese media report.
Scientists had recently declared that the baiji was probably...
TORONTO, Aug. 18 /CNW/ - The Cayman Islands continue to be under a Hurricane Watch, and it is expected that within the next 48 hours, Hurricane Dean...