Melissa Smith is a senior editor for Scuba Diving. An avid writer, scuba diver, backpacker and all-around outdoor enthusiast, she holds degrees in journalism and sustainability studies from the University of Florida. Before joining Scuba Diving, Melissa worked as the executive editor of EcoWatch and as the communications manager of The Ocean Agency, a nonprofit featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary Chasing Coral. Her work and expertise have been featured in outlets such as USA Today, The Guardian, National Geographic, Climbing magazine and MarketWatch.
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Arctic researchers documented lines of sponge skeleton along deep sea rocks, tracing sponge tracks.
The world's largest coral restoration project, Hope Reef in Indonesia, is a project of Mars Inc., which owns the cat food brand SHEBA®.
A portion of the Columbian Mammoth leg was recovered from the Peace River in Florida by two local fossil divers.
Scuba your way across Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in this week-long drive-and-dive.
Scientist are pairing decades of whale recordings with artificial intelligence in an effort to learn how to communicate with a group of sperm whales in Dominica.
The nonprofit aims to deploy 1,000 Interceptors in the next 5 years stem the flow of ocean pollution coming from rivers.
Nicole Yamase, 29, is the third woman to make the 7-mile journey to the sea floor.
Dive and dine your way across Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
The U.K will install cameras in 10 overseas territories for a four-month-long, roughly $3 million project to monitor more than 1 million square miles of sea with BRUVS. Data from the program will inform future conservation efforts.