The Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia's Southwest Papua province are a marine biodiversity hotspot and a divers' paradise.

Wild fish can recognize individual human divers, reveals new research. They use visual differences between divers to recognize a person who rewards them, say scientists. Divers at a research station ...

Funding sustained, effective management of marine protected areas is one of ocean conservation's most stubborn problems. Now, ...

There’s only one word for it: indescribable. “It’s one of those awesome experiences you can’t put into words,” says fish ecologist Simon Thorrold. Thorrold is trying to explain how it feels to dive ...

A tribe of Indonesian “fish people” have evolved extra-large spleens that enable them to free dive to incredible depths. The genetic change discovered in the Bajau tribe is the first known example of ...

When people think of snorkeling or scuba diving, they typically picture warm, clear waters which beautiful conditions, filled with an array of colorful fish. Many people don’t think of the water ...

University of Cambridge biologist Andrew Gillis studies the embryos of elephant fish, distant relatives of sharks with long, trunklike snouts. But how, exactly, do you get an elephant fish embryo? You ...

Much of the free-diving Barnhill and his buddies do is out of Venice, where a high Mississippi River will add a layer of silty, opaque water that may hide fishing line or nets tangled in the platforms ...