Month: May 2020

Marine Life presents the Autumn 2020 edition of their quarterly newsletter.

For everything you need to know about climate change, underwater art, southern right whale dolphins, oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight, aquaculture in Tasmania, shark nets and a whole lot more…

A terrific read.

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Local Port Noarlunga artists, Dan and Emma Monceaux exhibit their work in an online exhibition.

Check out the beautiful art works, photographs and videos that showcase the local area. Many of the photos are taken on the Port Noarlunga Reef.

Preliminary research indicates that baleen and toothed whales such as narwhals and belugas could be susceptible to COVID-19.

Another study from 2019, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that reductions in Arctic sea ice may be speeding up the introduction of new viruses from the North Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Waters along the east coast of Tasmania are up to 2C warmer than a little over a century ago.

The warmer waters pushed down by the east Australian current have stripped the area of nutrients and killed more that 95% of the giant kelp forests.

Hong Kong has seized a record-breaking 26 tonnes of illegally smuggled shark fins severed from about 38,500 endangered predators, officials announced.

A commercial diver is concerned numbers of the Giant Australian Cuttlefish could plummet to record lows again now a ban on catching them in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf has been lifted.

6th May, 2020
An Australian coastal freighter that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War 2 has been discovered at a depth of 95 m in the Tasman Sea off New South Wales.

Malaysia’s annual international underwater photography competition, Lens Beyond Ocean is back to inspire underwater photographers to showcase their great works.