3 Rescued After Hours in the Pacific

Three men survived 6 1/2 hours in the Pacific Ocean by clinging to an ice chest after their boat sank about 45 miles off the Oregon coast, the Coast Guard said.

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Volvo Ocean Race Sailor Dies

A Dutch crewman in the Volvo Ocean Race died early Thursday after being swept overboard in heavy Atlantic seas, race organizers said.

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Round-The-World Yacht Race Heads to England

Seven yachts set off Thursday for a trip from New York to England on the next leg of an around-the-world race that launched six months ago.

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Brazil One Leads Fleet Down Chesapeake Bay

Brazil One got off to a solid start and led the fleet down the Chesapeake Bay at the start of Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Sunday.

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Dutch Yacht Regains Lead in Volvo Race

The Dutch yacht ABN AMRO ONE regained the lead of the Volvo Ocean Race on Saturday after the yachts left Brazil and headed to the United States in the fifth leg of the around-the-world competition.

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ABN AMRO ONE Wins In-Port Race in Brazil

Dutch yacht ABN AMRO ONE won an in-port race at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, increasing its overall lead in the Volvo Ocean Race.

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ABN AMRO ONE Wins Fourth Leg of Ocean Race

Dutch yacht ABN AMRO ONE won the fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race Saturday after more than 20 days at sea from New Zealand to Brazil.

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Volvo Ocean Race Fourth Leg Begins

American Paul Cayard guided Pirates of the Caribbean to an early lead in the fourth and longest leg of the Volvo Ocean Race on Sunday.

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Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming

Gas escaping from the ocean floor may provide some answers to understanding historical global warming cycles and provide information on current climate changes, according to a team of scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Geologists have ringside seats for an ocean's birth

A rift that opened in Africa after a massive earthquake last September could be the beginning of a new Ocean, scientists say. The crack in the ground appeared along a fault line in the Afar desert in Ethiopia.

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ScienceDaily: Undersea Vehicles To Study Formation Of Seafloor Deposits Enriched In Gold And Other Precious Metals

An international team of scientists will explore the seafloor near Papua New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean later this month with remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles, investigating active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the formation of mineral deposits  …

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SeaOrbiter

The brainchild of French marine architect Jacques Rougerie, SeaOrbiter is a floating laboratory that will drift around the oceans and serve as an observatory of underwater marine life.

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Fish Cross 'Impassable Barrier' to Traverse Pacific Ocean

In "The Origin of Species," Charles Darwin discussed geographic features that could serve as "impassable" barriers to marine organisms living in shallow waters.

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Video: Surfing 20 inches above the water

Amazing new surfing trend that lets the surfer above 20 inches the water. Video in link.

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Off to the Beach...

My fellow Newsviners, I shall be gone for the next week soaking up the rays, checking out the sexy women in skimpy bikinis and being an annoying tourist down in North Carolina's Outer Banks.

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Corals Alter their Skeleton Material As Seawater Changes

Leopards may not be able to change their spots, but corals can change their skeletons, building them out of different minerals depending on the chemical composition of the seawater around them.

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Growing Acidity of Oceans May Kill Corals

One of the first chemical reactions one learns is that of carbon dioxide and water. If you have too much carbon dioxide, it combines with water and forms carbonic acid.

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3.8 Million Acreas of Sea Floor Protected By Innovative New Program

The Nature Conservancy Purchases Federal Trawling Permits and Vessels to Protect California's Sensitive Marine Habitats

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Navy in Hot Water for Undersea Trainings - The NewStandard

by NewStandard Staff July 5 – Environmentalists this week attacked the US Navy over the environmental impact of its underwater training exercises in the waters off Washington State and Hawaii.

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Q: Highest paying job? A: Alaskan Crabfishing!

The different varieties of the Alaskan crabs possess immense commercial value and the Alaskan King crab in particular is a prized dish in the culinary world, valued as highly as caviar or vintage French wine.

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Warming Was Top Factor in 2005 Hurricanes, New Data Says

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, climate scientists began a heated debate: Was last year's superstrong hurricane season a result of global warming? Now a new study argues that global warming is probably the larger of the two factors.

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Surprising Beauty Discovered on Pacific Seafloor

When you think of bright coral and colorful fish, you might conjure images of Hawaii or the Caribbean. If so, a newfound bed of deep-sea corals and other animal life found off the coast of Washington state will likely surprise you.

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Underwater Microscope Finds Biological Treasures in the Subtropical Ocean

Scientists towing an underwater digital microscope across the Atlantic have found possible missing links to the global nitrogen cycle, which in turn is linked to ocean productivity.

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Bush plan: world's largest ocean reserve

It seems President Bush ate his Wheaties today. Pretty much a no-brainer since there's not much hope of extracting oil from these areas and there aren't hundreds of fishermen complaining. [opine]It's been a while since I've applauded Bush. It feels weird.[/opine]

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Bush Creates World's Largest Marine Reserve

President Bush has created the world's largest marine reserve. Mr. Bush acted to protect an area of the Pacific Ocean that is roughly the size of California.

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Ocean Vortex "Death Trap" Discovered

A massive ocean vortex discovered off the West Australian coast is acting as a "death trap" by sucking in huge amounts of fish larvae and could affect the surrounding climate.

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World Ocean Day: RP Center of Marine Biodiversity in the World

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The ocean floor - can they dig it?

Following the discovery of mineral deposits within the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea, Nautilus Minerals has proposed to mine the area. However, not everyone is thrilled about the idea due to the possible effects on marine life.

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Hurricane Tracking Map Powered by Google

An interesting Hurricane Tracking Map for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico powered by Google

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Wave Energy Parks Could Be Coming To Oregon

This is a unique approach to generating electricity. What do you want to bet that the enivironmentalists will kill this because of all the fish it will kill with its electromagnetic radiation or whatever. Maybe fish migration routes will be altered.

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Underwater Volcano Erupts on Video

New videos show the first ever observations of deep submarine volcanic eruptions.

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Surveys Of Larval-stage Organisms Suggest Marine Biodiversity Is Greatly Underestimated

Using the novel DNA barcoding approach, Paul Barber, an assistant professor of biology at BU, discovered that biodiversity is greatly underestimated in the region of the Pacific known as the "Coral Triangle" and in the Red Sea.

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Coral Reefs Create Clouds to Control the Climate

When the temperature soars, coral reefs might cool off by creating their own clouds.

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