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Solving A Mile-High Mystery: Explorers Study Ancient Underwater Forest at...
High up in the Sierra, one mile south of Lake Tahoe, lies one of California’s most unique and beautiful alpine lakes. At 6,300 feet in elevation, Fallen Leaf Lake was carved out of granite by two...
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Stream2Sea Sunscreen Protects From Sunburn Without Killing Fish, Reefs
Everyone knows the importance of wearing sunscreen when out on the water. But did you know an estimated 6,000 to 14,000 tons of sunscreen washes off our bodies and drifts into our coral reefs every...
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Gabriel’s Great Adventure: A Very Special Shark Cage Dive in Montauk, NY
Author Michael Salvarezza congratulates the Sea Turtle’s youngest sharkdiver ever With the early summer sun rising briskly off the horizon and a gently rolling sea pushing the vessel forward, the Sea...
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The Landlord Is Back: 15 Foot Great White Takes A Taste of a Boat in Santa Cruz
Last Friday morning, July 8, Mark Davis was fishing for squid bait just offshore Capitola, near Santa Cruz. Little did he know, a large great white shark was passing by, and then things got...
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New Bill in Congress Would Ban Feeding Sharks in the U.S.
Some SCUBA diving operators use bait or chum to attract sharks so that their customers can get a closer look (or a better picture). Now a new bill has just been introduced in Congress that would make...
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U.S. Ordered By Court To Lower Navy Sonar Levels To Protect Whales, Other Sea...
The United States Navy will need to reduce sonar levels in the oceans under a court decision by the Ninth U.S. Court of appeals. To comply, the Navy will need to scale back their use of low-frequency...
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Mexico Passes Law to Protect Critically Endangered Vaquita; Marine Mammal...
The vaquita, more commonly known as the Gulf of California Harbor porpoise On Friday, July 22, 2016, United States President Barack Obama and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to...
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PADI Embraces Earth Day with Partnerships to Support Our Oceans
[PRESS RELEASE] Rancho Santa Margarita, California – 19 April 2017 – With Earth Day just a few days away, PADI® is building on its longstanding history of conservation by joining forces to further...
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Michael Bear, Rod & Heidi Roddenberry Awarded UVP/Luminox Eco-Laureate Award
Three California divers with a passion for protecting the oceans were recognized and awarded with the Eco Laureate Award by the Undersea Voyager Project and Luminox Watches. The award was presented to...
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New Virtual Dive Gallery Puts National Marine Sanctuaries at the Tip of Your...
Can’t get to your national marine sanctuaries? Thanks to the wonders of 360-degree photography and virtual reality, these underwater treasures now are as close as the tips of your fingers. NOAA’s...
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A Busy Day for Moms: Half of California Sea Lions Were Born Last Thursday
A sea lion watches over the divers from the Monterey Breakwater Last Thursday was a very busy day for pregnant sea lions at California’s Channel Islands. Thanks to the phenomenon known as “synchronized...
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Red Abalone Populations Still Suffering; Season Likely To Be Further...
The beautiful and rugged Sonoma coastline, where many abalone divers dive for red abalone After shortening the abalone season by two months in 2017 and reducing the annual season limit from 18 to 12...
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Entangled California Sea Lion Evades Marine Mammal Rescuers for the Third...
Photo: Phil Warren ©The Marine Mammal Center (SAUSALITO, Calif. – July 21, 2017) – A California sea lion suffering from a devastating entanglement evaded marine mammal rescuers yesterday in Bodega Bay,...
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Marine Mammal Center Releases Rehabilitated Sea Otter “Otto”
Otto, the southern sea otter that The Marine Mammal Center has been treating for domoic acid toxicosis, was successfully released last Friday in Morro Bay Harbor. The team from the Center’s San Luis...
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Annual Southern Sea Otter Survey: Despite Small Population Dip, Species Moves...
A sea otter at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, near Moss Landing, Calif.(Credit: Robert Scoles, ESNERR/NOAA . Public domain) SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — According to data released Friday...
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CDFW Arrests Four Suspects for Commercial Sale of Sport Harvest Abalone
A CDFW Wildlife Officer places an abalone poaching suspect under arrest. Wildlife officers have arrested four suspects on charges of harvesting abalone with a recreational fishing license then selling...
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Marine Mammal Center Releases Rescued Sea Lion “Tchotchke”; 630 Mammals...
Tchotchke the sea lion leaves his crate and returns to the ocean at Rodeo Beach in Sausalito, CA. Photo: Chris Constantine, California Diver Magazine. (Click to enlarge) The Marine Mammal Center in...
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Three Abalone Poachers Sentenced To Jail Time, Heavy Fines
The Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office has settled three major abalone poaching cases involving Fort Bragg, Sacramento and Bay Area abalone poachers, the California Department of Fish and...
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Meet Autumn Blum – Founder of Stream2Sea Eco-Conscious Products
You’ve probably heard of Stream2Sea, the hot eco-conscious sunscreen, skin and hair products company. What you probably didn’t know much about is the story behind Stream2Sea AND the company’s founder...
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Bill Cracks Down on Commercial Fishing Operations That Poach in Marine...
SACRAMENTO – (Tuesday, February 13, 2018) – California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher today introduced a bill that would crack down on illegal poaching by commercial fishing operations...
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