Abyss Dive Center in Marathon, Florida named Blue Star operation

Advisory panels working to update the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary management plan expect to unveil their first proposals this summer. Three working groups meet May 21-23 in Marathon to begin formulating their recommendations, to be ...

A federal report says a ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Keys is among more than a dozen wrecks nationwide that could pose a serious oil pollution threat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report was issued to the ...

Lt. Col. Peter Smith was piloting his F-16 looking through night vision goggles, making high-speed turns while peering between the narrow field of vision the goggles afford. Sometime after the mock combat operation began, Smith was afflicted with ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. -- The grandson of ocean exploration pioneer Jacques Cousteau plans to spend a month in an underwater research laboratory in the Florida Keys. Fabien Cousteau and a team of filmmakers and scientists will dive to Aquarius Reef Base ...

Inside Hangar 5 at MacDill Air Force Base may be the future for missions flown by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA operates the storied fleet of P-3 Orions that fly out of MacDill into hurricanes, but the agency also is ...

The Coral Restoration Foundation offers workshops to teach divers how to revive damaged reefs. KEY LARGO, Fla. — Ken Nedimeyer likes to say that he breathes new life into coral reefs. In fact, he's been doing it for more than a decade, and ...

A U.S. Senate committee hearing about the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on local communities will hear testimony from Monroe County's mayor Thursday. County Mayor George Neugent represents the 23 counties of the Florida Gulf Consortium ...

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DRY TORTUGAS, Fla. Nesting green sea turtles are benefiting from marine protected areas by using habitats found within their boundaries, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study that is the first to track the federally protected turtles in Dry ...