Image:A diver exploring the coral reef surface. Photograph: Vladimir Levantovsky / Alamy Living coral found at 125 metres, four times deeper than scuba limit Robots have found living coral on the Great Barrier Reef at a depth four times great…
A day's scuba diving in the Blood Grotto, a cave near to Palinuro, Italy, has ended in tragedy and the death of 4 party members after the group became disoriented and swam into a dead end tunnel. The dive area is a popular spot within the underwa…
A sea tragedy involving 200 asylum seekers sailing from Sri Lanka to Australia is unfolding 120 nautical miles north off Christam Island in Indonesian water. Emergency plans are being followed by both Indonesia's and Australia's emergency services an…
A ferry has broken in two and sunk in high winds and bad weather on the Brahmaputra river in Assam State in north east India. The boat was carrying as many as 350 people when the storm struck and at least 100 are feared dead in the accident. Passenge…
Decision made, the US Coast Guard took no time to scuttle the so called 'ghost ship' to avoid any further hazard to shipping. Fire quickly took hold after high explosive charges were set and the Ryou-Un maru now lies 300 feet down on the sea bed of t…
The huge floating island of debris from last year's Japanese tsunami continues to make its inexorable way across the Pacific with a number of items already having been washed ashore on the beaches of Canada and the United States. Coast Guards are clo…
A Meghna River ferry crossing to Dhaka, Bangladesh has been hit by an oil tanker and sunk. The accident happened at around 3am when most of the passengers were sleeping. 50 people have been rescued from the water but the rest, estimated at between 15…
A Stena Line Liverpool to Belfast ferry has collided with a cargo ship , the Union Moon in Belfast Lough. No passengers have been hurt but the cargo boat, the Union Moon, has lost most of her bow and her captain has been arrested. The ferry was a…
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is urgently trying to clarify the circumstances surrounding the refusal by Argentine authorities for cruise ships, Star Princess and Adonia to enter the port of Ushuaia, on the southern tip of Argentina. Bo…
A fire in the engine room on board the Costa Allegra, a sister ship to Costa Concordia, has meant that all mains power has been lost. The liner is being towed by a French fishing vessel towards Desroches Island in the Indian Ocean after drifting foll…