I place my regulator in my mouth and inhale sharply-an involuntary reflex to both the frigid cold and my own nervous anticipation-before rolling myself backward into the Southern Ocean. Despite the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruari Buijs, a marine biology and oceanography student, right, and Caroline Chen, a scientific diver and research assistant, ...

From the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean to the balmy waves of the Mediterranean Sea, scuba diving has taken Barrington Scott all over the world. Now, he has a world record to show for it. Scott ...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys don’t look like they belong in Antarctica. Largely devoid of snow, the landscape is mostly dirt and rock. When explorer Robert Falcon Scott trekked the area in 1903, he ...