• Why do you love South Africa?
  I know this is not scuba related but since I live in South Africa, I thought I might share this with the world. Why are South Africans so patriotic? What makes them so passionate about their country? Why do the hairs on the back of their neck stand up?
• South Africa: Poachers beat legal fishing - by millions
  The perlemoen and Patagonian toothfish poached in South African waters and sold illegally in Asian markets are worth more than the country's entire legal fishing industry.
• Great Barrier Reef: Climate change threat not overstated
  The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) says the threat climate change poses to the Great Barrier Reef cannot be overstated.
• Shark attacks fall as humans fight back
  Shark attacks dropped in 2005 because people are fighting back more often when threatened and the ranks of ocean predators are thinning, a University of Florida report said on Monday.
• Hundreds of endangered coral reef fish released in Indonesia
  Hundreds of humphead wrasse were released back into the waters of the Bunaken National Marine Park after being confiscated from a fisherman who was intending to illegally sell the internationally-protected fish species abroad.
• Australia: Reef shade structures almost a reality
  Shadecloth structures protecting parts of the Great Barrier Reef could be commercially available to tourist operators within a year.
• Mediterranean: Sensitive deep sea coral reefs protected for the first time
  Three ecologically-important deep sea areas have been protected off the waters of Italy, Cyprus and Egypt, following a recent decision by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM).
• South Africa: Overstrand anti-poaching unit may be disbanded
  The days are numbered for the highly successful Marines anti-poaching unit in the Overstrand - but no one is saying what will take its place.
• Gulf of Mexico: Reefs damaged by Hurricane Rita and warmer temperatures
  Hurricane Rita's pounding waves and a hotter-than-usual Gulf of Mexico took a toll on the Gulf of Mexico's only government-protected coral reefs about 100 miles off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.
• Australia: Northern reefs next in line for bleaching
  Scientists say north Queensland reefs are next in line to be hit by coral bleaching.
• Australian oil spill 'tragedy for marine life'
  A oil spill in the Australian state of Queensland is being described as a tragedy for the area's marine life.
• South Africa: Anti-whalers do it for pleasure - skipper
  The SA Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) is demanding erroneous paperwork from an anti-whaling ship detained in Cape Town harbour, its captain said on Saturday.
• Artifical reef project gets underway in Phuket
  Phuket's Bangtao Bay, has commenced the seeding of the bay area with concrete structures to promote the development of an artifical reef.
• South Africa: Anti-whaling ship detained by authorities
  The anti-whaling ship Farley Mowat, which has spent six weeks harassing Japanese whalers in the Antarctic, has been detained in Cape Town harbour by South African authorities.
• Sea level rise 'is accelerating'
  Global sea levels could rise by about 30cm during this century if current trends continue, a study warns.
• Coral reefs cheaper to save than neglect - UN
  Costs of safeguarding the world's fast-disappearing coral reefs and mangroves are small compared to the benefits they provide from tourism to fisheries, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.
• Project 'Digital Skins': Sensors watch Barrier Reef coral
  With the fragile ecology of coral reefs around the globe increasingly under pressure, scientists on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are establishing a network of sensors to better understand this beautiful part of the underwater world.
• Australia: Lack of coordinated shark studies putting swimmers at risk
  A LACK of co-ordinated studies may be putting swimmers at risk, according to a leading shark expert.
• Aussie tragedy sparks calls for shark fence
  North Stradbroke Island tourism operators have called for a shark-proof swimming enclosure to be built off Amity Point where a young woman was fatally mauled by up to three bull sharks at the weekend.
• New Guinea sponges and more may help save lives
  The Fogarty International Center (FIC), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced two new awards to support the search for new pharmaceutical compounds and agricultural agents from organisms found in coral reefs, forests, and extreme environments, the cataloging of these diverse organisms, and the training of scientists in the United States and developing countries...
• Australia: Conservation council questions shark nets
  One of New South Wales' peak environment groups says shark nets along the coast harm other species and provide little protection for swimmers.
• Deep-sea disaster causes shark influx in Bangladeshi coastline - More Whale Sharks caught
  Aquatic life experts fear an unidentified deep-sea disaster for massive influx of sharks in the Bangladeshi coastlines as deaths of whale sharks and dolphin in the hand of local fishermen, local daily The New Nation reported Friday.
• New website explores Oceans of the World
  The World Ocean Observatory, dedicated to public education about the world's oceans, announced the establishment of its Web site - http://www.thew2o.net - an online place of exchange for ocean information and educational services...
• 'Air Jaws' photographers make desperate plea for South Africa's dwindling shark population
  To all involved in the battle against shark finning. Please read on...
• Coco and Christmas Island Reefs in better shape than expected
  An eight-year research project has found coral reef around the Christmas and Cocos Islands is in much better shape than first thought.

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