A California surfer recently survived a harrowing encounter with a shark who was displaying “aggressive behavior,” officials said. The Sunday encounter in the vicinity of T-Street Beach in San Clemente, California prompted the city to close the beach “due to confirmed aggressive shark behavior.” “The beaches will remain open, but water access will remain closed until 8 p.m. Monday, pending …
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Fleet Week is back in the Big Apple. Members of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps have made their annual entry into New York City for a week of fanfare and fun leading up to Memorial Day. A Fleet Week tradition — the U.S. Navy dive tank — returned once again to the heart of NYC’s Times Square. …
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A Michelin-starred chef is set to bring a new meaning to “elevating” a dish in 2025 — by serving a meal on the edge of space. Rasmus Munk, 33, of Denmark, has partnered with the Florida-based space tourism startup Space Perspective and will bring fine dining to a place it has never been before: 100,000 feet above sea level. Munk …
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Scientists with a Boston aquarium are encouraging beachgoers to report sightings of white sharks this holiday weekend after signs of shark bites were observed on multiple marine mammals. Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in New England, and the region has been experiencing beach weather already. That’s a good reason to be on the lookout for the …
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Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It’s so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off. More than three-fifths — 62.9% — of the world’s coral reefs are badly hurting from a bleaching event that …
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A fire early at a marina in northwestern Croatia early Wednesday destroyed 22 boats and caused huge damage but no injuries. An investigation was underway to determine what caused the fire at the marina in Medulin, a small town on the Istrian peninsula that’s popular with tourists in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea. Photos showed boats in the …
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The search for a missing diver in Florida has been suspended after he disappeared while free diving during an exploration trip to a World War II-era shipwreck off the coast Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced. The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed in a post on X that the identity of the missing diver is Virgil Price, 39. Price, a West …
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Creamy white New England clam chowder is the most famous. Blood-splatter red Manhattan clam chowder is the most reviled. Yet salty clear-broth Rhode Island clam chowder “is the original chowder,” says Jamie Coelho, editor-in-chief of Rhode Island Monthly magazine. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO CREATED BUBBLE GUM, WALTER DIEMER, HOME-KITCHEN CHEMIST OUTWITTED SCIENTISTS “The indigenous tribes of Rhode Island gathered quahogs …
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Scores of sick and starving pelicans have been found in coastal California communities in recent weeks and many others have died. Lifeguards spotted a cluster of two dozen sick pelicans earlier this week on a pier in coastal Newport Beach and called in wildlife experts to assist. Debbie McGuire, executive director of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington …
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Japan’s Fisheries Agency on Thursday proposed a plan to allow catching fin whales in addition to three smaller whale species currently permitted under the country’s commercial whaling around its coasts. The proposal comes five years after Japan resumed commercial whaling within its exclusive economic zone after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission in July 2019. It ended 30 years of …
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