Occupants inside the OceanGate Titan submersible before its demise experienced faulty communications with the crew above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, with one of their last phrases being transmitted to the world above being, “all good here.” Nearly 15 months after U.K. billionaire Hamish Harding, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, father-son pair Shahzada Dawood and...
A team of dedicated researchers were stunned after they recently came face-to-face with a ship that hadn’t been seen in 168 years. The discovery of the steamship Le Lyonnais was recently announced by Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS). AWS, which owns and operates the vessel D/V Tenacious, found the ship off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts....
A pregnant 7-foot porbeagle shark appeared to have been eaten by an even larger shark in what researchers believe is the first such evidence of the ocean hunter becoming the hunted. Researchers captured the porbeagle shark near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in late October 2020 and attached two tracker tags – one mounted on the shark’s...
The world’s largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is “a depression, or dip, in the Earth’s surface,” according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ocean basin in the world, according to the National Ocean Service’s website. There are three major types of basins, which are drainage,...
An extremely rare orange lobster has been rescued and returned to the sea after it was discovered in the seafood section at a market in Southampton, New York. The “1-in-30 million” lobster was first spotted at a Southampton Stop and Shop by a local animal shelter — which then reached out to Humane Long Island...
A bearded, venomous creature has emerged on the beaches of Corpus Christi. Prickly fireworms, also called bristle worms, washed up along the Texas Gulf Coast and beachgoers are on high alert. The National Park Services (NPS) described the bristles as tiny, needle-like spikes, each one filled with venom, according to FOX Weather. ‘NO NEED TO...
A lawsuit against Milwaukee Brewers billionaire owner Mark Attanasio claims he’s been stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Beach and carrying it to his home for his personal use on a construction project, according to documents obtained by The Los Angeles Times. The lawsuit was filed by Attanasio’s next-door neighbor James Kohlberg and claims the Brewers...
The family of French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet has filed a wrongful death suit totaling $50 million after the June 2023 implosion of the OceanGate Titan explorer submersible.77-year-old Nargeolet was one of the five onboard the Titan submersible which imploded while descending to explore the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic on June 18, 2023. All...
Duke Kahanamoku was a real-life American aquaman. “The Father of Surfing” rode the pipeline of popularity he achieved as an Olympic champion to become the soft-spoken savior of Hawaiian heritage foretold in a king’s deathbed prophecy. “The ocean is my temple, the waves my prayers,” Kahanamoku reportedly said, one of many quotes that have helped...
A pair of women broke the world record for the fastest row across the Pacific Ocean —by nine days. Jessica Oliver, 32, and Charlotte Harris, 33, set out to compete in the World’s Toughest Row Pacific Challenge on June 8, 2024, from Monterey, California, with the goal of rowing 2,800 miles to Kauai, Hawaii. Thirty-seven...
