SUALTI Gazetesi

by Owen Tyrie The boards of both Landvernd and the Icelandic Natural History Society have sent a stern letter to both the Minister of Environment and National Resources, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbjartsson, and Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Kristján Þór Júlíusson […]

An Australian man who was almost killed in an attack by a great white shark has won the right to keep a tooth the animal left wedged in his surfboard. Surfer Chris Blowes lost his leg and was in a […]

By Anna Leask and George Heard Two divers missing this afternoon from Banks Peninsula have been found alive after getting washed away from the boat by strong currents. A man and women, both still wearing their diving gear and oxygen […]

A severely decomposed finless porpoise was found stranded at Sai Wan Village in Sai Kung. Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong responded to a stranded finless porpoise case today, with that being the 19th case of this year. The carcass […]

The 60ft blue whale carcass drifted ashore 5,000 miles from its home, near Walvis Bay, Namibia on Tuesday It had a gruesome fin injury and was haemorrhaging blood in several places when it was discovered by locals Local authorities are […]

By Charlie McKenna Globe Correspondent The seasonal speed restriction on small vessels in Cape Cod Bay was extended Friday through May 15, a result of the ongoing presence of right whales in the area, according to the Massachusetts Division of […]

An Australian filmmaker and conservationist who shot some of the underwater scenes for the 1975 thriller Jaws says she’s seen the health of our oceans deteriorate significantly since the early days of her career. “No child today will ever ever […]

Andrew Quintana (WTSP), Associated Press The unprecedented rate at which Florida’s manatees are dying has prompted lawmakers to direct $8 million from the state’s budget towards aiding the native sea cows. The funding would go towards habitat restoration and restoring […]

Frank Fernandez The Daytona Beach News-Journal A 64-year-old woman was sitting on a paddle board in New Smyrna Beach on Friday when she became the first person bitten by a shark this year in Volusia County, according to officials. The […]

Divers Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler are used to finding prehistoric treasures when they trawl Central Florida waterways. But no amount of experience could prepare them for the massive surprise they found while diving in the Peace River earlier this […]

Nick Twietmeyer ntwietmeyer@ptleader.com With people the world over forced to remain at home and limit travel to the bare necessities, tourist-centered businesses like Point Hudson’s whale watching group Puget Sound Express were left high and dry. Pete Hanke, who runs […]

By Kurtis Alexander Millions of young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the Central Valley will be trucked to San Francisco Bay and other coastal sites for release, because the rivers they’d normally travel to get to the ocean are […]

By Ben Coxworth As is the case with other types of livestock farming, antibiotics are widely used in aquaculture to prevent disease. There may soon be a healthier and more eco-friendly alternative though, in the form of seaweed added to […]

A mako shark took a group of marine researchers off guard, when it made a U-turn after being released and came back to bite their boat multiple times. It happened about 30 miles off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and video […]

By Heath Moore Thousands of fish have been found dead along Auckland’s Beachlands coastline, worrying locals as a strong stench lingers. Mandy Reeves was going for a walk on Monday when she noticed a smell near the Pine Harbour marina. […]

BY MARK PRICE Two species of stinging scorpionfish have been found in unexpected places in Florida waters, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. The hunchback scorpionfish and shortfin scorpionfish both have venomous dorsal fins that cause “a […]

BY RICHARD YONCK Being an orca isn’t easy. Despite a lack of natural predators, these amazing mammals face many serious threats – most of them brought about by their human neighbors. Understanding the pressures we put on killer whale populations […]

by Elizabeth Zahradnicek-Haas The Czech Republic boasts a number of flooded quarries, rivers, and caves, which attract divers from all around the world. In fact, the Czech Republic’s Hranice Abyss made headlines several years ago when professional divers determined it […]

By Jessica Schremmer and Anita Ward A jawless blood-sucking eel-like fish has surfaced in record numbers in the River Murray system, a new monitoring program has found. Ninety-one pouched lamprey and four short-headed lamprey were recorded migrating up from South […]

Two NSW councils are calling on the state government to remove shark nets on beaches along the coast. Last night both the Northern Beaches and Newcastle councils voted for the nets to be replaced with alternatives that don’t trap other […]

NEW YORK, April 26 — The Mediterranean is one of the marine biotopes most affected by human activity. The renewal of its fish population could be facilitated by Biohuts, invented by Ecocean. Here they show us their installations in the […]

Helen Sullivan If, at midnight, you stick your oar into the water of the lagoon near Kallady Bridge in Batticaloa, on Sri Lanka’s east coast, you might hear fish sing. It sounds, according to Prince Casinader, who was a former […]

A 18,000-pound sperm whale stranded itself on the shores of a beach in St. Lucie County over the weekend, and later died. A crew with Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute monitored the mammal, which on Saturday was spotted […]

By Nikk Ogasa Sea sponges don’t move, or so many scientists believed. But researchers report today in Current Biology that deep in the Arctic Sea sponges do creep, and they sacrifice pieces of their own bodies to do so. During […]

SAN DIEGO (KSWB) – A sea lion found itself in a precarious situation off the San Diego coast, but a rescue team from SeaWorld was able to free the critter’s head from a metal loop on a buoy. The sea […]

Ralph Riegel MARINE biologists are to conduct tests to try to solve the mystery over the death of two large basking sharks whose carcasses have washed up on Cork beaches over the weekend. The two sharks – which washed up […]

My Octopus Teacher, the heartwarming story of a human-octopus friendship, has won the Oscar for best documentary at the 93rd Academy Awards, which are taking place in Los Angeles. Directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, My Octopus Teacher follows […]

By Nick Russo RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – When you’re a young whale exploring the ocean, you have to find ways to keep yourself entertained. A right whale calf was seen in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts playing with seaweed during an […]

An international, multidisciplinary team that includes faculty members from The University of Texas at Arlington has published a paper in the journal Philosophical Psychology that wades into the debate about whether fish feel pain. Their conclusion: while fish lack certain […]

Michael Amos, 20, from Cornwall, was near a paddleboarder when he caught the magic moment on camera The marine and natural history photography student says it has long been a dream of his to snap these sharks ‘Looking back at […]

A swimmer’s dip in the ocean took a heartwarming turn as a pair of killer whales separated from their pod to greet him. Logistics marketer Steve Morris was snorkelling with some friends in the Bay of Plenty near Bowentown in […]

SAUSALITO, CA — Experts concluded Saturday that an endangered fin whale that washed ashore in San Francisco died due to injuries sustained from a ship strike. The whale carcass was spotted at sea on Friday by the U.S. Coast Guard […]

Just how much trash is lurking under Lake Tahoe’s surface? Nobody knows – but it will be a lot less after a multi-month cleanup effort to clear rubbish from the lake’s bottom. Starting May 14, teams of professional and volunteer […]

Deep beneath the ocean so-called ghost currents appear to defy the laws of physics. These currents bring nutrients closer to the surface, causing hotspots that team with life for no apparent reason, becoming seasonal homes to orcas (killer whales) and […]

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In celebration of Earth Day, a group of local scuba divers and local volunteers are setting out to complete an underwater and beach cleanup at Magic Island. The cleanup, which is a partnership with the Honolulu Rotary […]

By Alaa Omran The archaeological mission of the Faculty of Arts of Alexandria University recently discovered the bow of a sunken ship near the Red Sea island of Saadana with 1,606 artifacts. Other parts of the ship had been uncovered […]

Author: Rob Caldwell YORK, Maine — Brian Skerry has spent more than 10,000 hours underwater in his career, in seas from the Arctic to the tropics, taking photographs of everything from the tiniest fish to the most prodigious whales. For […]

by Sibélia Zanon The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), a river dolphin endemic to the Amazon, has been declared endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning all the world’s freshwater dolphins are now at threat of extinction. The species faces the same […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) unveiled new “action plans” on Thursday, to ensure the recovery of five endangered species, for a list that includes Southern Resident orcas. The Puget Sound region’s orcas first appeared on the endangered list […]

A Durban spear fisherman got more than he bargained for when he emerged from the ocean with a baby shark tooth lodged in his head. Jarid Norman says he was diving in Umdloti, KwaZulu-Natal, on Wednesday when he spotted a […]

by Luh De Suriyani Indonesian officials have announced their findings into the cause of the mass stranding and death of 52 short-finned pilot whales earlier this year. They cited inflammation in the alpha whale’s echolocation organ as the cause of […]

KOTA KINABALU, April 21 — The skin condition affecting the sharks of Sipadan island is a chronic natural disease caused by changes in the environment, said a marine expert here. Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia professor Datuk Mohamed […]

A dozen sharks and other fish found dumped on a Broome beach are believed to have died as a result of set net fishing, which is illegal in the area. The animals were found in different states of decay by […]

A Russian athlete has set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most consecutive reps on the bench press… underwater. Vitaly Vivchar broke the existing record in Tomsk, Russia, in August 2020, cranking out 77 reps on a bench […]