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If you've ever scuba diving and a two-meter-long sea snake storms out of the shadows, here's what you should know.First, stay calm. Although sea snakes rarely attack scuba divers, a venomous bite can quickly be fatal, as was the case with…

Jon Lindbergh, a celebrated deep-sea diver and underwater demolition expert whose life as the son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was marked by the height of fame and the depths of his family's tragedy, died on July 29 at his Lewisburg, W. Va.…

The name of the boat is Truth, which is just one of the juicy details in Joshua Zeman's nautical documentary "The Loneiest Whale: The Search for 52". Another is a coda that the audience will appreciate staying for.The whale in question -…

"People will be watching," warned Minna Caroline Smith at Lapham's Quarterly about her groundbreaking three-wheeler tour of the North Shore in eastern Massachusetts. Not only were the adult self-propelled tricycles new, so were the women…

A Bedouin shepherd came across the first of the ancient scrolls in 1947. He found them in jars in a cave in Qumran near the northern tip of the Dead Sea. Some were sold to a monastery, others to an antique dealer in Bethlehem. Once their…

AVON, NC - Bobby Outten, a county manager for the Outer Banks, broke two bad news at a recent public meeting. Avon, a town of a few hundred full-time residents, was in dire need of at least $ 11 million to keep Main Street from washing…

In 1947 a young Bedouin shepherd stumbled across a cave a mile from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea and discovered seven weathered scrolls of parchment, some of which contained Biblical texts in Hebrew dating back 300 years before…

The facility will be located in waters off the coast of Jutland.ah_fotobox | iStock | Getty ImagesDenmark will move ahead with its plans to build a huge man-made island in the North Sea that will act as a major renewable energy hub and…

When Eduardo Sampaio first saw an octopus coiled up and hit a fish, he said, “I laughed”. That was a problem because he was diving in the Red Sea and almost choking on his dive regulator.While an octopus was previously seen curling one of…