Apparently laid to rest more than 10,000 years ago in a fiery ritual, one of the oldest skeletons in the Americas has been retrieved from an undersea cave along Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, researchers say.  Read More →

Famous Japanese photographer Masakazu Akagi, who is serving as a private photographer for Japanese Prince Tohomito, has been in Turkey for 50 days to photograph underwater beauties around the Aegean town of Mu?la. His videos will be aired on Japanese national television and photos will be published in various international magazines  Read More →

CHINA has used a small, manned submarine to plant the national flag deep beneath the South China Sea.  Read More →

PARIS (AFP) – “For this wine, time has stood still,” said Veuve-Clicquot’s chief cellarman after tasting the two-century-old champagne found off Sweden.  Read More →

Canadian scientists have identified, after 157 years, the famous British ship Rescue «Investigator», which was lost in the Arctic, while attempting to find traces of a previous expedition.  Read More →

This undated photo released by the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, Monday April 12, 2010, shows a cloud of smoky water billowing from the top of a tower of metal ore at a volcanic vent five kilometres beneath the surface of the Caribbean. Scientists using a remote-controlled submarine have discovered the deepest known volcanic vent and say the superheated waters inside could contain... 

NEW DELHI: With the Indian armed forces inducting a large number of spy drones and “killer” UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) since the 1999 Kargil conflict, the hunt has now been launched for drones to operate underwater as well.  Read More →

Lockheed Martin has announced that it’s completed a critical design review for a system that enables submarine communication while below periscope depth.  Read More →

The Maldives is currently suffering the most serious incidence of coral bleaching since the major 1998 El Niño-event that destroyed most of the country’s shallow reef coral. Coral bleaching is caused when rising water temperatures stress the coral, leading it to expel the algae it uses to obtain nutrients. When water temperatures rise even slightly, algae leaves the coral polyp and enters the water... 

Free of charge to existing owners Poseidon has identified a number of improvements to the flagship Discovery rebreather.  Read More →