Lake City (Global Adventures): Rebreathers, Blue Holes, and the Dominican Republic will be covered during the 2010 NSS-CDS workshop from May 21 to 23. Kevin Gurr will talk about current Rebreather designs and safety features, and he will offer an in-water rebreather clinic. Jill Heinerth will cover the use of rebreathers during extensive exploration dives [...]

Guatemala (Global Adventures): Scuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters. Samabaj, the first underwater archaeological ruins excavated in Guatemala, were discovered more or less accidentally 12 years ago by [...]

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 [...]

Narragansett (Global Adventures): The discovery of ancient shipwrecks and plans for upcoming expeditions dominated Professor Robert Ballard’s first Webcast from the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography Inner Space Center (ISC) to students around the country on Thursday. The ISC utilizes telepresence technologies to connect the world to oceanographic exploration projects in [...]

La Jolla (Global Adventures): The Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to develop new tools for ocean exploration. The scientists will develop miniature robots that can explore ocean ecosystems.
Scripps researchers Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks will be spearheading an effort to design and deploy autonomous underwater [...]

Washington, D.C. (Global Adventures): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a five-year, $22.5 million grant to a new entity called The Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology. It will be headquartered at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Pierce, Florida, and co-managed by the University [...]

Tampa (Global Adventures): Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME), a treasure-hunting firm, filed Admiralty Arrest Complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on two separate shipwreck sites recently discovered by the Company.
The Florida based company says that the two sites lie within the general area of the English Channel but are outside [...]

Bermuda (Global Adventures): The Green Bay Cave in Bermuda the longest known cave on the island and the target of a NOAA expedition running until September 30, 2009. Deep water marine caves represent one of the Earth’s last largely unexplored frontiers of undiscovered fauna.
More than 150 limestone caves are known from the island of Bermuda, [...]