Former Coast Guard Captain Saved his life with Snorkeling Vest while Swimming in Pacific Ocean

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Former Flotilla commander of the Coast Guard Auxiliary…

Whale at Orlando’s Sea World Kills Trainer During a Show

Orlando Sea World Killer Whale Attacks Trainer

Spectators at Orlando’s Sea World were witness to more than just some cute looking Killer Whales also known Orcas jump out of the water and do a few tricks, on Wednesday 24th February, 2010. It was during a show packed with an audience, that a Killer whale named Tilikum snatched a trainer from a poolside [...]

Potential Life Forms on Mars, Right Here in A Canadian Lake

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What may seem just like any other mountain lake, the Pavilion lake in British Colombia, Canada is being termed a biological mystery, drawing teams of astro-biologists and astronauts from NASA and CSA to explore in it’s depths. The seemingly normal picturesque lake situated 420 kilometers northeast of Vancouver among the limestone cliffs of Marble Canyon, [...]

DivePhotoGuide.com Launches Free Online Underwater Photography Tutorials

Free Online Underwater Photography Tutorials

For all you underwater photography enthusiasts out there, here’s a bit of good news. The leading underwater photography website DivePhotoGuide.com recently announced the launch of the highly anticipated free series of comprehensive underwater photography tutorials written by professional underwater photographers. If you’ve ever just picked up an affordable point and shoot with housing to capture [...]

James Cameron’s Love for Scuba Diving Shows in Avatar

James Cameron's Avatar

You’re thinking you don’t see anything to do with the Ocean in ‘Avatar’, right? Well if you look closely…

Shark Attacks Teenager off Heron Island Australia

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Heron Island, Australia, Dec 20th 2009: An Australian teenager is in a stable condition in Hospital after being attached by a Shark, while diving off the coast of Heron Island in Queensland. John Pengelly, 19 yrs old,  was diving with two friends at Lamont Reef off Heron Island when a three-meter bull shark bit him [...]

A Whale of a Christmas with Scuba Santa

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It’s an early Christmas in Japan’s Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Aquarium which has put on an incredible show where scuba divers dressed as Santa, deliver scuba gifts to the aquariums resident Beluga Whales. The Yokohama Hakkeikima Sea Paradise located at the tip of the Yokohama Bay in Japan, is a combination of an amusement park [...]

Maldives Cabinet Meets Underwater for Climate Change

Maldives Underwater Cabineet Meet

Members of the Maldives cabinet this Saturday 17th October 2009, donned their Scuba diving equipment and held a meeting underwater, staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth. President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials descended to their conference tables and took their seats at 20 feet (6 [...]

World Record Broken As Massive Shoal of SCUBA Divers Outnumber Fish

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Have you ever been on a dive where you look out not too far away into the distance and see a massive shoal of barracuda’s, jacks, fusiliers or other variety of fish give you that feeling of being small and insignificant in their world? Well, that’s exactly the kind of feeling some fish off the [...]

Republic of Palau to Create Worlds First Shark Sanctuary

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September 29th 2009: The Republic of Palau is an Island nation in the Pacific some 500 miles east of the Philippines , with a rich and diverse marine ecosystem surrounding it. The economy of Palau subsists primarily on tourism, agriculture  and fisheries, and it came as a great surprise to all when they announced in [...]