Sea stars fascinate us with their ability to regenerate. Some sea stars need the entire core of their body to regrow arms, but others can wholly develop a new body …

The Mariana Trench is known as the deepest part of the world’s oceans. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, the underwater canyon is about 1,580 miles long with an average width of 43 miles, reaching a maximum-known depth of …

Around 2pm on Sunday afternoon, several large sharks were spotted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, prompting officials to close popular Sunset Beach. Claude Panis, a marine safety lieutenant for the fire …

Los Angeles-based Dive Warriors, a non-profit charity dedicated to helping disabled veterans by offering training and participation in scuba diving, is raising money for their programs with an upcoming raffle. …

When most 6th graders are on the baseball field or running liners in the gym for their basketball coach, one San Diego kid was spending his free time underwater, taking dive …

Camera accessory company Lensbaby is launching a new circular 180+ video lens accessory for the GoPro Hero4, giving GoPro users the ability to capture 185º field-of-view with a circular fisheye lens. The Lensbaby Circular …

The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal by San Francisco Bay Area suppliers and sellers of shark fins on Monday. A group of Chinese American community organizations, along with …

Plastic pollution in our oceans is a major problem for wildlife. Around the world, it is estimated that at least 1 million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles …

Most divers don’t think “blue water diving” when visiting this tropical vacation destination, but the Hawaiian Islands are located near the middle of the Pacific Ocean more than 2,400 miles …

Last summer, dozens of large great white sharks, some measuring as big as 18 feet, were spotted in the Monterey Bay around the 4th of July. This season it appears …