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The global research project Ocean Tech, whose chief scientist is Bermuda’s Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley, is encouraging more young women to study science and engineering. The Ocean Tech team — the same group that is finalising the global Ocean Vet seri...

From oysters, to scallops, mussels and conchs, Samia Sarkis has made a career in growing shellfish for consumption. The marine biologist and aquaculture specialist thrives in “early life cultures” — that period from the egg stage to juvenile — but is...

Bermuda’s schoolchildren are being inspired to become submarine explorers as part of an interactive educational programme on the heels of the XL Catlin Deep Ocean Survey. The Ministry of Education is on board to integrate the Stem — science, technolo...

Fifty years ago this month, the record-breaking Beatles song Yellow Submarine hit the airwaves. Broadcasting the deepest underwater live radio show in history last week therefore seemed fitting to American comedian John Fugelsang. The host of Sirius...

A newly released United Nations-funded report has looked into the possibility of naming high seas locations — including the Sargasso Sea — as new World Heritage sites. The report, titled World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come, ...

A deep ocean research mission is set to begin off the coast of Bermuda tomorrow. Conducted by multidisciplinary organisation Nekton, the scientific programme will create a new standardised methodology to be used by marine biologists for measuring phy...

Bermuda will play host to the first stage of a groundbreaking new research project designed to help save the world’s oceans. The Ocean Tech initiative will bring together the world’s top marine scientists with state-of-the-art submersible technologie...

The elimination of mankind’s “addiction to single-use plastic” is the focus of a new documentary being privately screened at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute for the first time in Bermuda to coincide with World Oceans Day. A Plastic Ocea...

New light has been shed on the threats that lionfish could pose to Bermuda’s waters thanks to the publication of a PhD thesis that has been three years in the making. The University of Massachusetts paper by Corey Eddy has drawn on many sources incl...

An “adventure conservationist” group has declared the inaugural Devil’s Isle Challenge a success, raising awareness and funds to support conservation. The event, hosted by Plastic Tides, was described by organisers as an “elite endurance race” with p...

Dear Sir, Having just recently seen the documentary End of the Line, I came away concerned about the fishing conditions around Bermuda and wondered whatever happened with Blue Halo. Where has that all gone? What has the Government done with that mani...

A man attempting to reach Bermuda from Florida in an inflatable floating bubble has been rescued for the second time in 18 months. Endurance athlete Ray “Reza” Baluchi set off from Pompano Beach on Friday, despite being warned by authorities that the...