The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism announced today that final arrangements are being made for the decommissioned naval ship, the USS Kittiwake, to be sunk off the northern end of Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach. The sinking is tentatively scheduled for this summer. When complete, the wreck will become a popular [...]

REEF was founded in 1990, out of growing concern about the health of the marine environment, and the desire to provide the SCUBA diving community a way to contribute to the understanding and protection of marine populations. REEF achieves this goal primarily through its volunteer fish monitoring program, the REEF Fish Survey Project. Participants in [...]

The scientific projections are ominous.
If substantial steps aren’t taken globally to counter the effects of climate change, reefs in Hawai’i and around the world eventually could become coral wastelands, decimated by increasingly acidic and warming ocean waters.
Some scientists say such a scenario, which would wreak havoc with Hawai’i’s fisheries and the state economy, could come [...]

 
Analyzing 48 surveys of Caribbean fish populations over fifty years, from 1955-2007, a new meta-study has found that fish populations in the famously clear waters began to drop in the mid-90s, leading to a consistent decline that hasn’t stopped.   The study published in Current Biology discovered a region-wide decline of about 3-6 percent per year [...]

 
Take a Grand Tour of Cozumel Scuba Diving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EfTIB1jBrE&feature=related
Sit back and enjoy this really nice video with good narration of both the marine life and the coral structures and swim throughs around Cozumel. 

Whether you are a scuba diver, snorkeler, swimmer or someone who like to see interesting marine life you should be concerned.  As reported here previously, the ocean and life in it are in trouble.  Over 70% of the world is covered by water and about 95% is still unexplored, yet soon there may be not [...]

What do you know about NOAA?  First, do you know what NOAA stands for? Second, do you know what NOAA does and third do you know how you can be part of NOAA?
NOAA is the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, a division of the US Department of Commerce.  “NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes [...]

 
I have been to Dominica twice and the diving and snorkeling is some of the best in the Caribbean.  Healthy coral reefs, wonderful walls full of life, and adventure above and below the surface.  Now there is a good reason for you get to Dominica.  Starting July 11 through July 20 is the Dominica Dive [...]

I served 4 years in the Air Force (Vietnam) and 2 years in the reserves and NEVER heard that the Air Force had ships.  Now as a scuba diver I learned they had a small fleet of ships.
KEY WEST ― Scuba divers and Key West hotel operators are circling May 15th on their calendars.
That’s the day [...]

The Manila Times  recently reported on an Dec. 2007 article in Science Daily, that coral reefs around The Philippines could be gone in 50 years .  “It’s vital that the public understands that the lack of sustaina­bility in the world’s carbon emissions is causing the rapid loss of coral reefs, the world’s most biodiverse marine ecosystem,”
Scubaology [...]