On a sunny day at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena, California, in 1991, photographer Kirk Weddle was setting up to ...

FREE-DIVING IS a perilous sport. Divers, swimming underwater without oxygen tanks, frequently black out from low oxygen and put themselves at risk of drowning. Marine mammals such as seals ...

Developed by researchers at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, ZodiAq is an underwater robot designed to move with a level of control that propeller-driven bots just can’t match. Instead of ...

Dr Chris McKnight from County Antrim has been researching how seals can hold their breath much longer underwater than many ... blood so as to not run out and drown. "To find such a fundamental ...

New research from a Scots university has revealed why seals don't drown when they spend extended periods of time underwater. The marine mammals can hold their breath for prolonged spells ...

Gray seals may possess a secret sense that helps them survive at sea. The marine mammals adjusted their time spent underwater based on the amount of oxygen in the air they breathed before diving ...

Given that shared hardware, McKnight thinks this ability might extend to other diving mammals or perhaps even reptiles and birds that have evolved to make a living underwater. “We think there might be ...