The British naval, navigator, and explorer, Captain James Cook, was the last of the great adventurers of the New World first discoveries era, started by Christopher Columbus. James Cook became the first person to sail almost all the world’s oceans, and when compared to other voyagers, he has sailed the…
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Deemed as “the most beautiful island on earth” by the legendary oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau, and for its richest flora and fauna had become the inspiration of Steven Spielberg’s Jurrasic Park, Cocos Island is a multicolored tropical nature where treasure hunters are still convinced that it was…
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It is important to realize that photosynthesis occurs only down to about 100 – 200 m, and sunlight disappears altogether at 1,000 m or less. While the ocean descends to a maximum depth of about 11,000 m in the Mariana Trench, the deep seafloor is, on average, 4,000 m below the…
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During the Crimean War (a war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish), the British government hired more than two hundred newly built merchant ships belonging to private European companies to…
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Separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean −1,250 kilometres from the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula southwards to the Japanese island of Hokkaido− the 22 main islands and 30 smaller islets of the Kuril Islands (Russian: острова́) chain a…
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Layang-Layang Island, also known as “Swallows Reef,” is a man-made island and was originally constructed as a naval base for the Malaysian Navy which later developed another dive resort, Layang-Layang Island Resort. The island is an oceanic atoll of the…
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William Beebe was one of the century’s leading pioneers into the oceanic world. The Brooklyn, New York, native possessed an unrelenting curiosity about the natural world around and beneath him. Throughout his dozens of books describing his various expeditions…
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In the center of the Sulu Sea, 90 miles south of Palawan Island, lies Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park known for its extraordinary biodiversity, excellent examples of unspoiled reefs, and breathtaking drop-offs into the open ocean. As one of the Philippines’ oldest ecosystems, the…
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Lying off the northwest coast of Lombok, just over 2 hours direct from Serangan Harbor in Bali and 1 hour 15 minutes direct from Padang Bai Harbor in Lombok is a trio of islands known as The Gili Islands. These idyllic islands have long attracted travelers in…
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Between 8 to 14 million tonnes of plastic makes their way into our ocean worldwide every year (that is more than a garbage truck’s worth per minute) and it is now estimated that 88% of the sea’s surface is polluted by plastic waste: more than 1 million seabirds and…
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Legends and myths all over the world always hold mysterious and incredible stories. Extraordinary tales are hereditary from one generation to the next, sometimes intriguing enough to be explore further in real life. One compelling enigma comes from the…
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