Nowhere has the fraught and complex relationship between surfers and sharks played out with as much drama as at Réunion Island, a department of France situated in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar. A surfers’ paradise,… Continue reading…

We’ve already seen something about one of the US Navy’s recent requests for new research: a device to monitor divers’ vital signs, and – if necessary – counteract incipient decompression sickness. Exploring the deep ocean… Continue reading…

Something about orcas is apt this autumn, as a couple of weeks ago a pod of about nine killer whales was spotted in False Bay. They are (I hope) probably going to hang around for… Continue reading…

Wired.com published an article in their Danger Room section, all about defence, concerning proposed DARPA research on biometric monitoring of navy divers. DARPA, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the organisation that… Continue reading…

I shouldn’t quote the very first paragraph of a story, but this one shook me a bit. Humans have been immensely destructive for far, far longer than I’d like to admit: The North Atlantic right… Continue reading…

Ocean conservation organisation Oceana published a brief obituary of Yakat, a female orca whose remains were found on the Canadian coastline in January. The article sheds some light on wild orca family structures, and how… Continue reading…

Christopher Neff studies the complex interplay of politics and shark bites on humans. We have heard him speak at the Save Our Seas Foundation, and another article he wrote – that argues that the words… Continue reading…

Whirlpools are like giant squid: one feels that they are almost mythical. They have been the subject of stories, legends and poems, and yet they are real and – if you’re lucky – can be… Continue reading…

The Scientists at Work blog on the New York Times website featured an article by a scientific diver who ventures under the ice covering Lake Untersee in the Antarctic to collect samples of microbes that… Continue reading…

Surfers share the water with sharks all the time, often at very close quarters. Almost all the regular surfers I know have a story about a dorsal fin cutting through the waves, or a dark… Continue reading…