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Divers Choy Aming and Blake Burgess came to the rescue of a distressed turtle this week after an appeal for help went out on social media. Tara Leane Sullivan, whose house overlooks Hamilton Harbour, spotted the turtle struggling to stay afloat some ...

A baby mako shark was spotted just a few feet from shore twice last week. Melissa Ray said she spotted the shark as she walked near near the flagpole flagpole on Front Street at about 5pm last Monday. She added: “At first I thought it was a stick, or...

Families rescued a sick turtle stranded on an East End beach yesterday. Samantha Tyers said she and her family were walking near Fort Hill Bay near the southern end of Cooper’s Island in St David’s just before noon when her children told her there wa...

A special sanctuary for seagrass has been created in a lagoon on Ireland Island in an effort to guard a protected habitat from a protected species – green turtles. Grates have been installed at both marine entrances to the lagoon to protect the area ...

The Bermuda Turtle Project is celebrating half a century of the protection and study of sea turtles. Jennifer Gray, the director for the project, said the group was thrilled to receive reports of turtles that grew up in Bermuda, nesting on beaches t...

Beachgoers are being warned to keep an eye out while enjoying the weather as Portuguese man o’ war have made an unwelcome arrival. The bluish, ballon-like organisms, often mistaken for jellyfish, have been washing up on the island’s beaches in increa...

The purpose of this blog is to inform as well as find out what people know about invasive species in Bermuda. Bermuda is a small island where many species tend to thrive. It is important to be educated on the invasive species that thrive on the islan...

Sweeping aerial views of Bermuda and her stunning coastline are the subject of a new series of films and photography by film-maker Andrew Stevenson. Mr Stevenson, known for his research identifying Bermuda’s migrating whale population, has made publi...

Scientists often tell us we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of our oceans but Bermuda is at the heart of a mission that intends to change that. More than 200 samples and specimens including black coral never befor...

Mystery surrounds the origin of turtle hatchlings that shocked the island last summer. Described by some as Bermuda’s “natural history event of the century”, almost 90 green turtles hatched last August at Builder’s Bay — the first recorded turtle hat...

Plans for a prototype lionfish-culling undersea robot will be unveiled in a PBS NewsHour programme that features Bermuda. Local marine experts, Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley of BIOS and Chris Flook of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources,...

Unpleasant weekend weather led to an unusual discovery by a local diver at Spittal Pond — a pool rife with tiny sea slugs known as blue dragons. Weldon Wade, an avid diver and lionfish culler, said he stopped by Spittal Pond on Saturday because of th...