Whale Shark Rescue In Knysna South Africa

A juvenile whale shark who became stranded on a sandbar near Knysna South Africa is back in the sea thanks to the help of the National Sea Rescue Institute and a group of local paddlers. On Saturday, 11th March, NSRI…

Stunning Baby Whale Shark Rescued And Released In India

The whale shark is the largest species of living fish (if you count sharks as a fish), and one of the most charismatic creatures in the sea. Normally, the gigantic whale shark captures the imagination for its tremendous size, but…

Dive Inspire Has The Cutest Accessories For Anyone Who Loves The Ocean
Dive Inspire Accessories Dive Inspire is an ocean minded company from Thailand which makes one of a kind felt keychains, magnets, and vivid rubber luggage tags. We visited the Dive Inspire booth at DEMA perhaps a day too late, as they had…
Dive with MantaMaria in the Azores

The MantaMaria dive center is located on the beautiful island of Santa Maria nearly 1,500km offshore from the coast of Portugal. Here you can dive with devil rays in the crystal clear waters of the Azores archipelago, with visibility up…

New Finding Dory trailer reveals much more of the sequel movie

Finding Dory is the loooooong awaited sequel to Disney’s hit movie, Finding Nemo. A new Finding Dory trailer released today gives us a much better look at the follow up movie and reveals many more of the story’s elements and settings. The first…

How did this baby whale shark end up in a swimming pool?

This is an intriguing story we had to click on after we saw this baby whale shark swimming in a pool. It seems that the baby whale shark was found off the coast of the Maldives and some people at…

Friday Smorgasbord: Strange balloons, ginormous worms and more

We have a huge smorgasbord selection for the last Friday in May, so without further ado… This freaky looking creature is a hot air balloon commissioned by the city of Canberra to celebrate its centennial anniversary as the capital of…

Shark Week sponsors livestream of a webcam inside Georgia Aquarium’s Ocean Voyager Exhibit

The six million gallon Ocean Voyager Exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium is now available for your viewing from not one but two live webcams. That’s right, in anticipation of the world famous Shark Week, Discovery Channel and the Georgia Aquarium…

Baby whale shark is the smallest ever found

Will you take a look at that! The early life history of whale sharks, Rhyncodon typus, is almost virtually unknown and up to now the smallest recorded live whale shark was closer to 10 feet. This 15″ neo-nate found on…

Taiwan bans whale shark consumption, trade by 2008

The whale shark now has more friends in Taiwan and fewer enemies. January 1st, 2008 will be the day the Taiwanese will put into effect a total ban on the hunting and selling of whale sharks, and whale shark meat.…