Soundscape plays a role in the settlement of corals

In the larval stage corals drift freely in the sea - but once the larva has settled down, i...

Live streaming audio from a deep-water hydrophone

For centuries poets and writers have imagined the depths of the ocean to be incredibly calm. ...

Dramatic drop in biodiversity 

Trawl nets endanger many species
 
In Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), the marine environment should be particularly protected. As a recent s...

Coral breeding and rehabilitation in large-scale trial

A team of researchers from TU Delft, Van Oord and the Australian National Science Agency...

Volcanic flank moves underwater – an upcoming tsunami threat?

The southeast flank of Mount Etna slowly slips towards the sea. A team from the...

A puzzling relationship between amphipods and pteropods

Pteropods or sea snails, also called sea angels produce deterrent chemicals to protect ...

Beluga whales are more sensitive than previously thought

Scientists have carried out the first audiometry (listening tests) on a wild living po...

The flow of money

Often there are pure economic arguments that prevent rational decisions followed by consequences which are no longer understa...

New research project at the German Marine Museum Stralsund

A research project for the next three-year has started at the German Maritime Museum...

The lung architecture of deep-diving marine mammals is divided into two parts

Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals, as well as divers wh...

The mating call of this fish of the Sciaenidae family is louder than an aircraft taking off

Researchers in the Gulf of California have meas...

What's so cool about holding your breath?

My name is Nik Linder. I was a co-owner of a big dive shop in Freiburg. Judging by appearances, i...

The Solomon Islands have the credentials of an absolutely first class dive destination and are only a 3-hour direct flight from Brisbane; yet they rem...

A Fallen Champion

One of the busiest shipping zones in the world, the English Channel, is littered with hundreds upon hundreds of wrecks.&nbs...

A very special lake in the Alps

Today, we present a very special “lake”. In winter, it serves as a water storage for snow cannons; and...

Claw can generate one of loudest sounds in the ocean

Another shrimp in the wall...

With its large brightly pink claw, it isn't surp...

Do you remember? Yesterday’s dive spot was great. So nice that we decided to go to the north tip of Olkohn, Kohboy, again. Olkohn became connect...

Finally we got under the ice today! The morning got off to a challenging start since the temperature dropped below -28°C. Everything started slo...

Things don't look good for corals. With only a few truly healthy coral reefs left and forecasts not getting any better, it may be a tight squeeze f...

Prince Albert II of Monaco is Keynote Speaker at symposium

The protection of the world's oceans is an international concern. Thus, it is a t...

Flank collapses of volcanic islands produce massive landslides

Volcanic eruptions can cause destructive tsunamis.

As part of an ex...

Measurements taken by satellites indicate that the eastern flank of Mount Etna is slowly sliding into the Ionian Sea. However, these measurements only...

Yesterday, 29 October 2015, the research ship Polarstern left its home port of Bremerhaven with 32 students from 19 countries. It will sail to Cape To...

For the first time, researchers managed to capture three-dimensional images of an underwater canyon. The star of this project was Whittard Canyon i...