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VIDEO: New Deep Ocean Ecosystem—‘The Trapping Zone’—Discovered in the Maldives

Micro-nekton caught in benthic geography are supporting a food chain in a never-before-seen environs more than 1,600 feet deep.

VIDEO: What It's Like to Freedive a Glacier—Without a Wetsuit

The novice freediver shares what it took to dive Greenland’s ice for his personal mental health and to inspire others to face their own struggles.

Rare 300-foot Shipwreck Discovered at the Bottom of Lake Superior

Barge 129, the last missing Great Lakes whaleboat, was identified by a team of researchers, ending a more than century search for the wreckage.

Five Marine Science Books for Scuba Divers

Peer inside seaweed, seashells, coral reefs, algae and eels with this collection of books about the ocean.

Goliath Grouper Advocate Shana Phelan Named November Sea Hero

In the wake of Florida reopening its goliath grouper fishery, the co-owner of Pura Vida Divers secured protections for its aggregation sites.

Paraplegic Scuba Diver Attempts Three Underwater World Records

Dan Metcalfe is waiting for Guinness World Records to certify his swim—more than 17,000 feet underwater—as the longest within his disability category, along with two other record attempts.

Ugandan Technical Divers Are Cleaning Up the World’s Most-Polluted Lake

Mutumba Faisal, the co-founder of AgrAbility for Africa, discusses an initiative he’s spearheading to pull ghost gear out of Lake Victoria with funding from the Ocean Conservancy.

Looters Disturb 1842 Wreck off Marathon Key

Hundreds of ballast stones were removed from the side of the shipwreck, exposing the wooden frames and planking of the *North America*. This will accelerate the ship’s degradation.

The Arctic Is Acidifying Up to Four Times Faster Than Other Oceans, New Study Finds

Melting sea ice is accelerating its uptake of carbon dioxide, driving a chemical change in the ocean that is a severe threat to life in the ocean.