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Can you name the ocean’s weirdest creatures? From translucent blobs to fish with fangs, the deep sea is full of bizarre beasts. Test your knowledge and meet some of nature’s strangest swimmers.
Long gone are the days of the photographic darkroom. In that otherworldly space, prints would slowly emerge on photographic paper, dimly lit by red lamps while surrounded by trays of intriguingly ...
It’s taken 36 hours of continuous flying to reach Cebu, on the opposite side of the globe and 180 degrees out from my regular circadian rhythm. I should be fatigued to the bone, but I’m too amped up ...
The first ever footage of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural environment has been filmed by scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute 100 years after the species was first ...
Some of the smuggled fins on display after the seizure (Photo: Thai Customs) A huge haul of 402 shark fins weighing in at 102 kilograms has been seized by Thai customs officials at Bangkok’s ...
The body of a Chinese diver who died off Kakaban Island, one of the Derawan Islands in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, has been recovered after she disappeared while trying to retrieve a dropped camera.
Following the news that global turtle populations are on the rebound, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has confirmed that conservation efforts ‘have improved the status of the ...
Mark 'Crowley' Russell on how we, as scuba divers, can force change in the world of liveaboard safety - read before you book your next trip ...
Aggressor Adventures has expanded its fleet with three new scuba diving liveaboards in the Red Sea, Komodo, and the Bahamas. Embarking from Port Berenice in the far south of Egypt , the 40 metre (131 ...
Halcyon Dive Systems is offering dive instructors a discounted offer on its Symbios Ecosystem, an integrated dive package consisting of the Symbios Handset wrist-mounted dive computer, a heads-up ...
Dive into the deep! Explore the mysteries of the deep sea, where extreme pressure, total darkness, and incredible creatures rule. How much do you know about life in the ocean’s hidden depths?
A specimen of spotted estuary smoothhound – aka ‘rig’ (Original photo: Arnim Littek/Wikimedia Commons) A new study has documented what is thought to be the first case of sound production by a species ...