All lovers of diving and other water sports can find many interesting places to enjoy water activities in Fujairah, the emirate on the east coast. It is a second place in the UAE with access to the Indian Ocean. Here fans of untouched nature and those who love a comfortable beach holiday will find a wonderful …
We live on a beautiful planet, full of amazing places with unique wildlife. And thanks to such activities as diving, we can feel like a part of nature and forget about big cities with their business energy for a while. Diving in the most beautiful and unusual corners of the world, you can not only …
Whale shark viewing at Oslob, a popular tourism site in the Philippines, is facilitated by hand-feeding the animals with shrimp. The long-term impacts of this provisioning are not well understood. Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic In the Philippines, whale shark tourism is a booming business. But questions have arisen about how this activity could …
Whale sharks don’t need help being spectacular. The world’s biggest fish is impressive in nearly every aspect, growing as long as 12 meters (40 feet) and weighing up to 21 tons. A new study in the journal Endangered Species Research used photo-identification techniques based on the sharks’ distinctive spots to discover a new hotspot for …
For thousands of years — perhaps hundreds of thousands — a sizable coral reef has stretched across the seafloor in the Atlantic Ocean, near the southeastern part of the U.S. And its existence remained a well-hidden secret until a recent deep-sea expedition brought the thriving ecosystem to light. Scientists on board the research vessel (RV) …
he Great Barrier Reef is Australia’s natural treasure, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and the largest living structure on the planet. Sprawling at 344,000 square kilometers, the ecosystem is composed of 3,000 individual reef system and houses a variety of marine plants and animals including 4,000 species of mollusks, 1,500 species …
Microsoft agrees with Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid. It’s better down where it’s wetter. The company’s new undersea data center off the coast of Scotland includes a couple of underwater cameras that give web viewers a glimpse of the subsurface environs. “We installed two video cameras on the outside of the pressure vessel to observe environmental conditions near our …