Lets Get Wet - Scuba and Ocean News

If you come into accidental contact with fire coral, you'll surely regret it. But these organisms are some of the most fascinating creatures in the sea, starting with the fact that they are not corals at all!

Add Australia's best scuba-diving sites to your bucket list, because there's a whole different view of the country from beneath the water. Here are our diver's picks for the top five

I love the movies were sharks get their own back – where the stupid (and just plain innocent) people get chomped. And I also love the completely ridiculous shark movies were the sharks have a...

A second rare whale has been euthanised by the Department of Conservation after beaching itself at Sandy Pt yesterday.

It was the second time in 24 hours DOC had to put down an Arnoux's beaked whale, which is relatively rare.

Acting area manager for Murihiku/Southern Islands, Alan Christie, said the whale stranded at Sandy Pt less than a day after an unsuccessful DOC and community effort to save a whale at Omaui Beach.

DOC staff were notified of the second whale's beaching yesterday morning, he said.

The 8-metre-long whale was in a highly distressed state and DOC made a difficult decision, in consultation with local iwi, to euthanise the whale and end its suffering.

While an attempt to refloat the whale would have been ideal, several factors, including the tides and the whale's condition, made this impractical, Mr Christie said.

It is well past time for a summer giveaway so after my mask fogged up and slipped down my face and my sunscreen washed up with one little dip, I emailed the guys at Skinnies and said “Hey!...

When you spend a lot of time in the water, a cold is inevitable. It is also inevitable that you will ask yourself at one time or another "Can I dive with this cold". Now we all know that we shouldn...

Scuba Sunday is a feature on scuba divers both here in New Zealand and some of the divers I have come in to contact with from all over the world.
Today’s Scuba Sunday is the Tassie Diver him...

For sheer jaw-dropping exhilaration, little beats the sight of a human riding a massive wall of water.

Now the surfing world is rife with news that a new world record has been set for the biggest wave ridden.

Pictures and video taken at Nazare in Portugal show Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara descending the face of a wave believed to have measured at about 100ft (30.5 metres).

Had he wiped out on the massive wave, he risked being forced many metres below the water, or being slammed into a reef or the ocean floor.

If the wave size is confirmed by Guinness World Records it will beat the previous record by more than 20ft (6.1m).

The huge waves at Nazare are generated by a 300m deep underwater canyon, roughly five kilometres wide where it starts at sea, then narrowing rapidly as it approaches the shore, funnelling more and more water into the waves.

I was so happy to be out on the boat again after being stuck on land with colds for the last couple of trips!  The New Year Poor Knights liveaboard has become an annual trip for us – a chance...