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I’m afraid of the water, so I learned to scuba dive

Inside an Explorer reporter's long journey learning to scuba dive, to visit one of Lake Champlain's 300+ underwater shipwrecks.
Morning Overview on MSN

Divers found Earth’s deepest blue hole, and the bottom is missing

Far from the open ocean trenches, divers in a shallow Mexican bay have found a vertical portal into the unknown. The Taam Ja’ ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

World’s deepest blue hole reveals uncharted depths and hidden connections

It begins with a number that seems almost laughable: over 420 meters deep. That’s how far down explorers have probed the Taam ...
Mongabay

Deep-diving manta rays use the ocean’s midnight zone to build mental maps, study suggests

Oceanic manta rays dive to record depths of 1,250 meters (4,100 feet), according to a first-of-its-kind study to examine in detail the extreme deep-diving behavior of these rays. Researchers tracked ...
Kotaku

Wake of the Water Takes Steam Supergame Enshrouded to Incredible New Depths and Levels

Every search for life begins with a search for water, and while Enshrouded has certainly been lively since its January 2024 launch, its new aquatic update is about to take it to entirely new levels of ...
SFGate

No maps, brown water: Shutdown woes at California’s smallest national park

When Andrew Snow arrived at the campground in Pinnacles National Park in early October, there was a problem. The drinking water coming from the spigot near his campsite was a brownish color and didn’t ...
EurekAlert!

World’s largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans

Many marine species are no strangers to the depths of the oceans. Some animals, like certain sharks, tuna, or turtles, routinely perform extreme dives, whereas for other species such behavior has been ...
Newsweek

Map Shows States Where Drinking Water Has Multiple Contaminants

Health nonprofit the Environmental Working Group has released a map it says shows that nearly 100 million Americans are drinking water contaminated with three toxic chemicals. The map shows which ...
collider

'Looking Through Water' Review: Michael Douglas and Son Go Fishing in a Washed Up Family Drama That Never Finds Its Depth

Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...
The Conversation

You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming in lakes – new maps show how risk from ‘forever chemicals’ varies

Penn State provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. University of Connecticut provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Since the 1940s, companies have been using PFAS ...
Health News Florida

Local boaters help scientists map the seafloor

A seafloor mapping project is making waves in Tampa Bay and across the globe. Launched by researchers at the USF College of Marine Science, the innovative program called Crowd the Bay taps into the ...
Frontiers

Physics-guided deep neural networks for bathymetric mapping using Sentinel-2 multi-spectral imagery

1 School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China 2 Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China ...