Dubai (Global Adventures): Shoppers needed to evacuate parts of Dubai Mall after a leak in the world’s largest aquarium. An amateur video posted in the Internet showed water pouring from a leak in a 270-degree acrylic walk-through tunnel of the Dubai Aquarium, flooding Dubai Mall and sending shoppers running.
Over 33,000 marine animals representing more than [...]

Avoca Beach (Global Adventures): Australian divers hope that the HMAS Adelaide will become the first artificial dive site in New South Wales (NSW). The warship is due to be sunk off Avoca Beach on March 27. Diving will start once the ship settles which is expected to be about two weeks later.
There will be six [...]

Sydney (Global Adventures): Scientists in Australia have discovered an octopus that actually makes use of tools. They say that the behavior has never been seen before in an invertebrate. Dr. Mark Norman and Dr. Julian Finn spent more than 500 hours filming and observing the veined octopus picking out halved coconut shells from the sea [...]

Brisbane, Australia (Global Adventures): The Australian government plans to spend $4 million to locate the A.H.S. Centaur, a hospital ship which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine I-177 14 May 1943.
The Scottish-built vessel was launched in 1924 as a combination passenger liner/freighter and operated a trade route between Western Australia and Singapore via Indonesia, carrying [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): The dive industry in the Cayman Islands is facing a difficult year with retailers, providers and businesses seeing a significant downturn. The average decrease in gross revenues across all businesses for the third quarter of 2009 was down 7.4 percent compared to the same period in 2008, with retailers suffering the most [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): The United States takes the top-spot in the fifth annual Futurebrand Country Brand Index (CBI). The Index polls approximately 3,000 business and leisure travelers from nine countries. It also considers expert opinions and compares statistics and global data from 102 countries across 29 image attributes and seven measures of brand strength.
Brand USA [...]

Australia (Global Adventures): Enchanted scuba divers may have a new toy: After undergoing a $14 Million rebuild, the Princess Iluka is available for charter trips in Australian waters, possibly heading into the South Pacific and destinations such as Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu, and perhaps even the Mediterranean next year.
The 115 feet (35 meter) super [...]

Australia (Global Adventures): The Australian Maritime Safety Authority launched a major clean-up operation as oil and gas continued to seep from a 1200-metre-deep well located 690 kilometers west of Darwin. The spill, which is eight nautical miles long and 30 meters wide, began early on Friday.
The operator of an oil rig responsible for a massive [...]