Manta rays, with an average wing span of 22 feet, are getting their first designated protected area in the western Pacific, around Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Yap Gov. Sebasti...
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Added: 04 Sep 2008, 2:40 pm GMT
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Here we go again. Another political move that pretends to care about the safety of swimmers on Australian beaches. But do shark nets really save people ?
Here's the story from SMH today: ...
The annual underwater.com.au photo competition is over, the judges have spoken and we are ready to announce the winners of the 4th annual underwater australasia photo competition. Like every year w...
A recreational fisherman has been fined for killing an endangered grey nurse shark that was hooked in waters off Forster on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Fisheries officers found the ...
The rarest marine dolphin in the world – down to 111 individuals following decades of entanglement in fishing nets - is to receive protection over more of its range from the New Zealand governmen...
EXCLUSIVE pictures of an infant albino humpback whale off the coast of Sydney have sent Government scientists into a spin, with claims that it could be the wayward calf of Migaloo - and one of the ...
Over the last week or so, this impaled female Grey Nurse Shark has been sighted numerous times hanging around Julian Rock in Byron Bay.
It is obviously injured by some sort of long metal po...
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Added: 13 Jul 2008, 12:07 am GMT
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Dramatic evidence that protected fish populations can bounce back rapidly from the impact of years of heavy fishing has been obtained by a team of marine scientists working on Australia’s Great B...
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Added: 12 Jul 2008, 7:04 pm GMT
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Conservation International, The Coral Reef Alliance, and Wetpixel.com have announce the 2009 Raja Ampat Entrance Tag Design Contest.
If you have the perfect photo that captures the excitemen...
SANTIAGO — Whales emerged the big losers as a weeklong International Whaling Commission meeting wrapped up in Chile on Friday, conservation groups said after anti-whaling nations failed to halt N...
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Added: 27 Jun 2008, 7:44 pm GMT
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Very cool news for ocean lovers and another step towards world domination by google.
We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean....
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Added: 25 May 2008, 1:17 am GMT
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For those of you who like us have been on this fantastic liveaboard (and worse, for those who were planning and dreaming to go), this is terrible news:
MV Odyssea 1 was badly damaged in a ve...
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Added: 13 May 2008, 7:33 am GMT
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The Byron Underwater Festival 2008 - sun, fun & record crowds
By Tim & Wandy Hochgrebe – Organisers of the 2nd annual Byron Underwater Festival (UF08)
The 2nd Byron Underwater Festi...
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Added: 10 May 2008, 11:10 pm GMT
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Japan Times published this article last week
Secret film will show slaughter to the world -
Covert operation finally exposes Taiji's annual dolphin horror
For the first time ever, gra...
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Added: 05 Apr 2008, 12:34 am GMT
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The Byron Underwater Festival will be the first place in Australia to show the new and amazing shark documentary Sharkwater !
A must see film for anyone that loves the ocean. A film that alr...
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Added: 19 Mar 2008, 7:50 am GMT
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The smell of aviation fuel, the hum of the turbine, the immense noise from the rotor blades, being strapped into a seat are all unusual ways to start a dive trip.
The tropical seas from the shores of East Africa, the Red Sea, through to South East Asia and then eastward to Australia, the Solomons and extending to the islands of Hawaiian Islands is the worlds richest marine province.