Tag: oceans

Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.

An Englishman searches for what’s left of Providence, a failed Puritan colony in the Caribbean.

A fish biologist makes a strong case against eating fish.

Fisheries observer Keith Davis monitored fishing vessels on international waters, devoting his life to protecting the seas — until he went missing. At Hakai Magazine, Sarah Tory reports on his disappearance.

When a West African symbol vanishes, its loss is felt in the ocean — and on land.

73-year-old ocean explorer Bob Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic 30 years ago, and he hasn’t stopped exploring the ocean floor since. In a recent piece for Popular Mechanics, Ryan D’Agostino profiled Ballard and the research aboard his ship Nautilus (a 211-foot former East German research vessel that carries seventeen crew and thirty-one scientists and operations specialists). But what […]