Oceana, the world's largest international conservation organization focused solely on protecting and restoring the world's oceans, announced today its partnership with Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which premieres Sunday, August 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. "Sharks deserve widespread attention not only because...

NOAA has reopened 26,388 square miles of Gulf waters to commercial and recreational fishing on Thursday at 6:00 pm EDT. The reopening of a third of the overall closed area was announced after consultation with FDA and under a re-opening...

Still Time to Register for 67th Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Course in St. Lucia, May 1-8 Only three weeks remain until the 67th Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Course, but there is still time to register for the popular DAN® course being held May 1-8, 2010, at Anse Chastanet in St. Lucia, West Indies. The event is jointly sponsored by DAN and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), and the goals of the...

Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya. In three weeks this May, the divers...

The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an interdisciplinary team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in this week\'s Proceedings of the National...

Researchers report how a unique fish species has adapted to a hostile environment poisonous to most other organisms. The findings are published in Science. The unique fish is called the Benguela-goby, or bearded goby, and is found only on the anoxic...

Michigan State University researchers are the first to identify a stress hormone in the sea lamprey, using the 500 million-year-old species as a model to understand the evolution of the endocrine system. Corticosteroid hormones control stress response in animals with backbones,...

A greater understanding of shark senses may prevent sharks being accidentally killed in commercial fishing operations, according to a researcher at The University of Western Australia. WA Premier\'s Research Fellow Winthrop Professor Shaun Collin said large numbers of sharks are taken...

A world-leading project at James Cook University is breeding popular marine ornamental fish such as the Coral Sea Lyretail Blenny, the Banggai Cardinalfish and various Clownfish. Dr Chaoshu Zeng, who leads JCU's Tropical Aquaculture Research Group in the School of...

A new study concludes that an old, fundamental and widely accepted theory of how and why phytoplankton bloom in the oceans is incorrect. The findings challenge more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about the growth of phytoplankton, which are the...

Scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute have used high-tech equipment to capture underwater creatures at depths not documented from before. Using deep-sea cameras and instrument platforms new to Australia, prehistoric six-gilled sharks, giant oil fish, swarms of crustaceans and many...

The population sizes of six species of sea turtles listed as either endangered or threatened in the United States cannot be accurately determined based on currently available information, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report adds...

Sparked by the August and September full moons, a rare and wondrous underwater exchange of reproductive cells heralds the continued survival of coral reefs and creates a fascinating experience for divers. According to researchers, corals use multiple reproductive strategies. Nearly all...

In a pioneering use of computed tomography (CT) scans, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming is in the process of killing off a major coral species in the Red Sea. As...

The five pound encrusted conglomeration of Santa Margarita shipwreck artifacts discovered in the Florida Straits in May by W. Keith Webb's Blue Water Ventures, though still in conservation, has thus far yielded two prime examples of 17th century Spanish presence...

Director of the Rubicon Research Repository Oversees Largest Diving Research Database in the World The presentation of the annual DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year Award is among the many highlights of the Beneath the Sea dive show. This year was no different, as Gene Hobbs was honored this past weekend as the recipient of the 2010 DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year Award. The award is given to individuals who have contributed significantly to dive safety or the DAN mission; nominations for Hobbs were unanimous in the belief that...