Archive for Temmuz, 2015

(KUSA)  One month ago a 16-year-old boy from Colorado Springs was on vacation with family when he became Victim Number Two of seven people attacked by sharks along the North Carolina coast. Hunter Treschl is now recovering at home in […]

Crews with the Pacific Whale Watching Association say four orca calves born since Dec. 30 have been spotted almost daily from the San Juan Islands to Vancouver Island this month and appear to be happy and healthy. The trade group […]

(CNSNews.com)—It has been 117 months since a major hurricane, defined as a Category 3 or above, has made landfall in the continental United States, according to 2015 data from the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]

That’s a legitimate scientific question. Multiple teams of researchers have wondered how the yellow boxfish manages to swim when it looks like someone attached fins to a cube of cheese. Find out how this thing moves. If you’re wondering how […]

JOHANNESBURG — The account of an American underwater explorer who says he found a silver ingot that belonged to 17th century pirate Captain Kidd in Madagascar is false, the United Nations said Tuesday. The so-called silver ingot is actually a […]

A moratorium on commercial fishing in the High Arctic – which was agreed to but never signed last year, as Russia and Canada squared off over the conflict in Ukraine – is expected to be endorsed this week at a […]

A Missouri animal control officer made a very fishy discovery last Friday morning. When Resource Officer Jamie Schmidt peered down into a Kansas City drainage ditch she saw a gigantic 60-pound grass carp that was nearly 4-feet-long. Schmidt said a […]

AN image posted by a Byron Bay dive company showing a grey nurse shark with a large rope tied around its tale has sparked distress on social media. Byron Scuba diving company Sundive has posted a photo of the shark, […]

THOUSANDS of “rogue seals” pestering fish farms are being relocated by the Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment Department, and are threatening commercial and recreational scale fisheries, a Senate committee into the state’s expanding aquaculture industry has been told. Fish […]

Four enormous underwater volcanoes, thought to be about 50m years old, have been discovered off the coast of Sydney by a team of scientists who were looking for lobster larvae. The volcano cluster was spotted through sonar mapping of the […]

As nature took its course beneath the ocean’s surface at Ningaloo at the weekend, a resident orca put on an unforgettable display for a group of lucky tourists. The male killer whale, known to those in the area as Augie, […]

Russia’s advanced military technology agency is working on a special underwater robot to protect Russian shores from foreign underwater intruders, news agency TASS reported Wednesday, citing the Foundation for Advanced Research Projects. The project will be taken on as part of ongoing research into methods of detecting and locating ultra-quiet underwater […]

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A rare orange-brown split-colored lobster has turned up off the coast of Maine. The Press Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1CjXCKL ) that the unusual lobster arrived last week at Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op in Scarborough. According to research […]

Discovery’s “Shark Week” again took a big bite out of the competition, with this year’s edition ranking as the highest-rated ever in many demos and lifting the network to No. 1 finishes for all of television in some of these […]

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – United States Navy divers have finished the job of removing all the unexploded shells and cannon balls from the CSS Georgia, the Civil War Ironclad that has been sitting at the bottom of the Savannah River […]

It was a fairy-tale ending for Sam the killer whale when after nearly two years of separation the young orca was finally reunited with its family. Sam, who also goes by the scientific name T46C2, was just two years old […]

The bottlenose dolphin virus outbreak that is suspected of killing most of the 1,660 dolphins found dead or dying along the East Coast over the past two years appears to have waned. No stranded dolphin has tested positive in South […]

A group of scuba divers from the Russian city of Kazan (500 miles east of Moscow) are planning to perform a deep-water dive of over 100 meters in the Barents Sea in northwest Russia. It promises to be the deepest […]

There won’t be buckets placed at 2nd Ave Pier and Pier 14 for fisherman to dispose of their fish guts after all. Myrtle Beach City Council on Tuesday decided not to move forward with an ordinance that would have made […]

ATLANTA – Here’s a little something to curb your ‘Shark Week’ withdraws. A baby Great White shark that washed up on a Cape Cod beach Monday in now free to roam about the ocean again thanks to the quick thinking […]

SAN DIEGO – Video shows a rare sighting of Pilot whales caught by local whale watchers Saturday morning. Whale watchers onboard a San Diego Whale Watch excursion whipped out their phones to catch a pod of at least 30 Pilot […]

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — A little fish that New Englanders have sought since the Colonial era is at the center of a battle over how to manage massive boats that trawl swaths of ocean off the East Coast, from Maine […]

This is the unique inland waterfall that is used as a creche by dozens of baby seals. The fur seal youngsters have turned the beautiful Ohau Waterfall, just north of Kaikoura, New Zealand, into their personal swimming pool despite it […]

A lone report in China’s state-run Beijing Times claims the nation is already in discussions to build an 8,000+ mile railroad connecting China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.—including a 125 mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait. Forget taking this […]

KURE BEACH, NC (WECT) – A dolphin died after it was injured by a shark and washed ashore on Kure Beach Friday morning. Dr. Ann Pabst, a professor at UNCW, said the adult male dolphin had a few superficial shark bites. […]

By Jane Lee, National Geograhpic PUBLISHED July 08, 2015 A big part of exploring the ocean involves tossing expensive equipment into the sea and hoping it comes back in one piece. Usually, the instruments return—maybe with an extra dent or […]

The sight of a sentient, beautiful dolphin or whale, slowly dying on a beach, is one of the most heart-rending scenes you would ever hope not to see. Fighting for air, weighed down by their own flesh, their glittering eyes […]

Humpback whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction off the coast of Scotland An adult humpback whale has been spotted off western Scotland for a fifth time in a month, compared with the usual total of just one […]

The whale watcher’s amateur attempts to communicate under the sea produced thrilling footage of a pod of Humpbacks answering his call. Using only a microphone and amplifier, the youngster uses his version of “whale speak” to draw in the humpbacks […]

‘In terms of sheer numbers of people affected, probably the most influential thing Plato ever wrote was his unfinished story of Atlantis.’ Adams had to reread this twice before its significance sank in. ‘That the story of Atlantis should have […]

CEBU, PHILIPPINES – A 45-year-old Korean diver, who was one of the three divers who went missing last Sunday, was found dead near the shore off Camotes Island, Cebu, Wednesday morning. The body of Heo Seung Yung, 45, was found […]

The Baywatch series star actress Pamela Anderson has written an open letter to the Russian President, urging him to use his authority over Russian territorial waters to block the passage of a cargo ship carrying 1,700 tonnes of fin whale […]

Most of us consider vision and hearing to be two separate senses. But dolphins use sound to see, emitting clicks, squawks and whistles to reveal hidden objects. This is called echolocation, and a new map of dolphin brain circuitry hints […]

When you’re distrustful of something, you might say that it’s “fishy.” Now, writes Popular Science’s Alexandra Ossola, that term may take on a new meaning — new research shows that the smell of fish not only makes people more suspicious, […]

The first ever global survey of sharks, rays and skates in coral reef environments using underwater cameras will begin in August. The Global FinPrint survey uses technology called baited remote underwater video (Bruv) to take one hour of underwater footage, […]

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Authorities in New Jersey snared an approximately 4-foot-long alligator in the Passaic River on Wednesday. Police showed up to a marina off River Drive in Elmwood Park at around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a […]

ST. PETERSBURG (FOX 13) – A local woman woke up to quite the surprise early Wednesday morning when she spotted a 300-pound gator with blood-stained teeth on her front porch. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and St. Pete police […]

What’s happening in this video? In this video, a tiger shark investigates and eventually bites an underwater hydrophone that our team set up in the Bahamas to study tiger shark movements. This is part of a larger collaborative research project […]

As Shark Week viewers remain immersed in the fascinating universe of apex predators that rule the oceans, delivered each year in July by Discovery, experts are paying close attention to detail, and not all of them like what they’re seeing. […]

As Shark Week plays out, divers in South Africa’s Mossel Bay enjoyed an incredible real-life shark moment, involving a massive great white tearing at a hunk of tuna and a surprise breach that was caught on camera. The accompanying footage […]

A pod of sperm whales have been captured on film swimming through the deep blue waters near the Caribbean, accompanied by a freediver who looks minuscule compared to their huge bulk. Holding her breath for up to two and a […]

WARNING: Graphic language SEWARD, Alaska – A whale pod gave a sailor in Alaska a surprise of a lifetime. According to FOX 5, a man sailing along the Alaskan coast was overcome with joy when a pod of whales emerged […]