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10 stories for“marine survey”
Sonar and underwater video surveys of the Benin continental shelf found octocorals and reef fish thriving 54 metres down, the first confirmed living mesophotic coral community documented anywhere on the Gulf of Guinea shelf.
Sep 29, 2026
NOAA's seventh West Coast ocean-acidification survey is tracking chemistry and marine life during unusual Pacific conditions. The findings matter to reefs, fisheries and divers.
Aug 1, 2026
University of British Columbia researchers combined dive surveys with genetic analysis to describe a red-eyed, three-lipped species that grooms itself with comb-like legs, and a second with an hourglass abdomen and black eyes.
Sep 26, 2026
Research divers work under formal scientific diving safety standards, but a marine science background does not make deep or technical diving inherently safer to attempt.
Jun 14, 2026
Coral is an animal with a skin a few cells thick. The diver who kneels for a photograph, the snorkeller who stands to adjust a mask, and the oxybenzone in a lotion each do damage that the reef cannot repair in a season.
Jun 4, 2024
Oman splits its diving into two distant reserves, one a protected reef north of Muscat, the other a remote wreck-strewn archipelago in the south.
Mar 15, 2025
The name means spicy fish and undersells it. A tahini and coriander sauce sharpened with chilli and lemon does most of the work, and the fish only has to be fresh.
Aug 1, 2026
The fourth global coral bleaching event hit 84 percent of the world's reefs. Here is what that means underwater, and what responsible diving looks like now.
Jun 18, 2026
A Levantine spice blend and a Mexican corn tortilla share no history at all. What they share is a logic, and that turns out to be entirely enough to build on.
Aug 2, 2026
A French submarine at 36 metres, a 1939 freighter at 40, and a Victorian battleship far beyond recreational limits. Lebanon's coast is a wreck list before it is a reef.
Aug 6, 2026
