An Egyptian tourist boat has sunk in the Red Sea off Jabal Al-Zeit, north of Hurghada, with six crew members on board. According to local reports, the boat was travelling from ‘Rashid’ – presumably ...

Reports are surfacing that 17 people had to be rescued by the Indonesian Navy after the Grand Komodo-owned liveaboard Putri Papua sank off the coast of Sorong, in Southwest Papua on Monday morning.

Pitcairn grey reef sharks were monitored by Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems – ‘BRUVS’ (Photo: Blue Belt Programme) Henderson Island and Ducie Atoll, part of the Pitcairn Islands, have been ...

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The UK Government’s Marine Accident Investigations Branch (MAIB) has issued a safety bulletin to prospective customers following the loss of life on Egyptian liveaboard dive boats operating in the Red ...

A volunteer taking manta ID photographs in the Maldives (Photo: Kaitlyn Zerr/Manta Trust) The Manta Trust has launched a new initiative aimed at getting businesses involved in manta ray conservation ...

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The Republic of the Marshall Islands has announced that it is to implement protection for two of the country’s remote and northernmost isles – a pair of uninhabited atolls known as Bikar and Bokak.

The humpback whale was entangled in a fish farm off Skye (Photo: Anthony Rigell/BDMLR) Volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) have freed a humpback whale that had become entangled ...

A new Guinness World Record for underwater living has been German aerospace engineer Rüdiger ‘Rudy’ Koch, after he completed an extraordinary 120-day stretch beneath the waves. Koch and his team ...

A baby shark born in a US aquarium appears to be a rare case of parthenogenesis, in which a female animal reproduces without having mated with a male. The swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) pup ...

The worst of the British storm season is usually during autumn and winter, which coincides with pupping season for the islands’ seal populations. Even the hardiest of adult seals can be seriously ...