It may surprise you that Costa Rican law permits cutting off the fins of sharks and exporting the fins overseas. The shark fin industry in Costa Rica took off from …

  The annual Our World Underwater dive show in Chicago took place last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Rosemont, Illinois, about 20 miles from downtown Chicago. The show featured more than …

While it’s been a warmer, milder winter in California this year, that hasn’t made it easier on California’s sea lion population. In the past two months alone, nearly 900 sick and starving young …

  Fishing and diving for lobster is dangerous business, and it’s even riskier outside the U.S. where safety often takes a back seat to productivity. Such is the case in …

It’s a fact – grouper like eating lionfish. In the Indo-Pacific where lionfish and grouper are both native, the grouper regularly dine on lionfish, helping to keep their populations in check. …

Although diving accidents are rare, can you imagine what it would be like NOT to have a recompression chamber around? A study has shown that 69% of diving accidents are …

I stood on the “landing pad” at the Mendocino Headlands site, also known as Pipeline, catching Humboldt State University students as waves pushed them one at a time onto the …