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The South Carolina-based deep-sea explorer who stumbled upon what he believed to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane in the Pacific Ocean has now confirmed his once-promising discovery was just a rock. Tony Romeo and his Deep Sea Vision team – which captured a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object in the Pacific Ocean during a […]
New Zealand and other Commonwealth nations wrapped up their global meeting in Samoa last week with a declaration to protect the ocean in the face of severe climate change, pollution and over-exploitation. The Apia Commonwealth Ocean Declaration builds on the 2018 Commonwealth Blue Charter and commits members to “robust and ambitious, innovative and transformative action […]
The teenager spent twelve hours battling waves in the Pacific Ocean when his kayak capsized Credit:Shutterstock:Andre T After a harrowing twelve hours in the Pacific Ocean, off the island of Hawaii, a 17-year-old boy was found clinging to his kayak in a lucky rescue. In what seemed to be a dramatic reworking of a classic “lost-at-sea” […]
A recent exploration of the Pacific seabed has led to a groundbreaking discovery of animals living underground near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, led by marine biologist Sabine Gollner, used a deep-diving robot named SuBastian to dig into the ocean floor at the East Pacific Rise. The area […]