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There's an article about globe-trotting shark photographer Michael Muller in the Washington Post. Muller has published a new book of his best images. species depicted: · oceanic white tip & black tip · bull · lemon · whale · great hammerhead · great white shooting locations: · Galapagos...

The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver by Alec Wilkinson The New Yorker August 8, 2015 It seems clear that the great free diver Natalia Molchanova is dead. She was diving last Saturday off the coast of Spain, giving lessons to a rich Russian, when she made a dive of her own and...

In the shallow bay before the medieval town of Noli, a short distance from the sunny Ligurian orchards where Christopher Columbus relaxed between voyages, a cluster of undersea "biospheres" are growing experimental crops. The project aims to deliver healthy, locally grown food and improve...

Long article, brilliant research. Seems to assert that the average New York cab driver, if transformed into a fish and dropped onto a reef, would have a hard time chiseling the expert game theorists who live there. As usual, the motive force that drags a project toward the sunny uplands of...

Scientists have discovered the first fully warm-blooded fish Washington Post By Chelsea Harvey May 14 at 6:30 PM It’s one of the most basic biology facts we’re taught in school growing up: Birds and mammals are warm-blooded, while reptiles, amphibians and fish are cold-blooded. But new...

In this photo taken Thursday, May, 7, 2015 underwater explorer Barry Clifford, right, presents a silver bar he believes is part of the treasure of the pirate Captain Kidd, to the president of Madagascar, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, left, on Sainte Marie Island, Madagascar. (AP Photo/Martin Vogl)...

The amazing underwater athletes are rewriting the science of the body. By Adam Piore March 26, 2015 In 2011, Hanli Prinsloo decided she wanted to break the woman’s world record in free diving. She would need to dive to 213 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea and hold her breath...

It was by pure chance that members of a diving club in the Roman-era port [of Caesarea] had come across the coins, which the authority said weighed nine kilograms (almost 20 pounds) but described as “priceless”. “At first they thought they had spotted a toy coin from a game and it was only...

"A 41-year-old woman died over the weekend during a diving excursion in the Keys, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. ... [The diver] jumped into the water and began panicking off Islamorada’s Pleasure Reef. A group pulled her back onto the boat but by then she was...

Jakub at GG has revealed something nice from his secret workshop: the CCR Liberty. 4 oxygen sensors 2 helium sensors – patented 2 methods of ppO₂ measuring 2 independent computers 2 solenoid valves 4 displays "No single malfunction in the electronic system can cause a breakdown of the whole...

Fugitive treasure hunter nabbed in Florida after 2-year hunt Amanda Lee Myers / AP Published: 01/28/2015 11:13 AM Updated: 01/28/2015 11:20 AM A fugitive treasure hunter embroiled in a legal fight over what’s been described as the greatest lost treasure in American history has been arrested...

Fine wine is usually aged in oak barrels stored on their sides in hillside caverns on dry land. Napa winemaker Mira is experimenting with undersea wine aging. Years ago, archaeologists removed wine bottles from a shipwreck. On a whim, one tasted some of the recovered wine. ( home page of...

~~~~~~~~~~ There is a nice Wikipedia article about the life and times of the City of Rio. She carried troops during the Spanish American War. This vessel is one of those unusual wrecks that lie in water shallower than its length, like the Kursk and the Edmund Fitzgerald. Rio was 370 feet...

U.S. initiates prototype system to gauge national marine biodiversity October 6, 2014 NOAA, NASA and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have joined together to support three demonstration projects that will lay the foundation for the first national...