If you want to swim alongside these amazing penguins, Boulders Beach is the place to do so.
Jessica Macdonald
In a world saturated with bad news, conservation can often be a depressing subject, but for sharks there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. WildAid and NBA star Yao Ming’s campaign against shark-fin soup has helped cut shark-fin consumption 50 percent.
Although they have been extinct for approximately two million years, scrabbling for their teeth in the pitch-black conditions is an otherworldly experience that requires only the tiniest bit of imagination to bring the monsters of the past back to life.
From ocean acidification to rising sea temperatures, to destructive fishing methods and toxic agricultural run-off, the list of human-wrought damage to our reefs seems endless.
The discovery has raised a number of exciting questions, including how the turtles generate their biofluorescence, and whether the ability is limited to the Solomon Islands population.
When it comes to breaking world records, our sport offers almost limitless scope for achievement.
Using figures from previously published papers, the authors of this recent study estimate that in the United States alone, 8 trillion microbeads make their way into lakes, rivers and estuaries every day.
Last week, a 66-year-old Japanese tourist pushed the selfie death toll for 2015 to 12, after a photo on the steps of the Taj Mahal led to a fatal fall.
In a time when ocean acidification as a result of climate change threatens the health of marine environments all over the world, understanding how the Kavachi sharks have adapted to survive in highly acidic conditions is of particular interest.
Controversy has been ignited after a fishing trawler from Cornwall, England accidentally caught 10 tons of shark while fishing for John Dory off the Isles of Scilly.
Here are a few of the world’s most easily distinguishable seabird families, presented with the hope that this may spark in the avid divers who read it a new passion for the ocean’s magnificent avian residents.
Here we’ll take a look at the two most common boat-diving entry methods, the situations appropriate for each, and how to perform them both correctly.
Here we’ll take a look at four top honeymoon destinations that are also famous for their dive sites.
Mexico’s San Ignacio Lagoon is one of the few places on Earth where it’s possible to come face-to-face with one of the ocean’s most impressive creatures without getting wet
Reverentially known in diving circles as ‘Her Deepness’, the octogenarian has no plans to slow down. In fact, she recently celebrated her landmark birthday with an expedition dive to Cashes Ledge, a submerged mountain range and ecological hotspot off the coast of New England.
In reality, the shark fin trade must cease completely if sharks are to have a chance of long-term survival.
There are currently 56 orcas in captivity around the world, each one a sentient being whose rights have been judged less important than financial profit.
Instead of having to constantly apply and reapply sunscreen, we may one day be able to take a pill that allows us to simply create our own.