Menlo Park (Global Adventures): A new update to Google Earth for Android allows divers and landlubbers to view the ocean floor on their smartphone before taking the plunge. Google Earth, a virtual map that now covers the entire globe, was first released as Google Earth in 2005. A mobile version for the iPhone followed on [...]

Kaliningrad (Global Adventures): Russia has developed a new submersible capable of diving to 19,685 feet (6,000 meters). Designed and build for the Russian Navy by the JSC Admiralteyskie Verfi shipyard in Kaliningrad, the vessel has successfully passed a set of factory tests, the news agency Itar-Tass reports. Further dives are currently under way in the [...]

Lake Tahoe (Global Adventures): In an effort to eradicate non-native freshwater mollusks known as Asian clams, scuba divers started to place long rubber mats suspended underwater by flotation devices across the bottom of Lake Tahoe. The clams promote so much algae growth that they can turn the blue lake water green. Asian clams have been [...]

Vladivostok (Global Adventures): A Russian scuba diver started to train a dachshund in the art of diving. He even built a special hardhat out of what seems to be acrylic material and a dry suit to keep men's best friend comfortable under water. To achieve neutral buoyancy, a short weight belt is wrapped around the [...]

Key West (Global Adventures): In an effort to attract more divers, the Monroe County Tourist Development Council has developed a "Wreck Trek Passport Program" that highlights the Florida Keys shipwreck trail. Certified divers can explore sunken vessels and artificial reefs according to their experience and certification level and receive an Official Florida Keys Wreck Trek [...]

Arlington (Global Adventures): The Lake Erie watersnake, a non-venomous species once threatened with extinction, has rebounded to the point that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove the snake from the list of federally endangered and threatened species. The Lake Erie watersnake is a subspecies to the Northern Water Snake that inhabits [...]

Dubrovnik (Global Adventures): Dive tourism is growing in Croatia, a small country in Central Europe at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Adriatic Sea. With hundreds of sunken shipwrecks and submerged caves lining the coast of the Adriatic Sea, the number of divers exploring the underwater treasurers increased 20 percent over [...]