LAKE MACQUARIE might be harbouring one of the rarest marine creatures found in Australian waters a Japanese devil ray.The ray, which locals originally thought was a manta ray, has been in t...
Australian scientists have completed an ambitious 18-month project to name and describe more than 100 new species of sharks and rays.Conducted by scientists working under the auspices of C...
Unborn wobbegong sharks are being raised inside an artificial womb as part of a world-first marine conservation experiment in Port Stephens.Scientists hope the technology can be applied to ...
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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...
Finalists have been announced for the 2009 Raja Ampat Entrance Tag Design Contest, hosted at Wetpixel.com.Last year's winning image, a pygmy seahorse with its tail wrapped around a gorgonia...
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 government ...
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 ...
Having been over here and Diving for a few months I am beginning to wonder why Australia does not have it's own club based diving organisation (akin to Bsac or Scotsac).I am not bashing PAD...
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...
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 Bar...
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 No....
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....
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...
The Byron Underwater Festival 2008 - sun, fun & record crowdsBy Tim & Wandy Hochgrebe Organisers of the 2nd annual Byron Underwater Festival (UF08)The 2nd Byron Underwater Festiva...
Japan Times published this article last weekSecret film will show slaughter to the world -Covert operation finally exposes Taiji's annual dolphin horrorFor the first time ever, gra...
