REV Ocean Launches Maiden Science Voyage to Support Marine Protection, Policy
, role in carbon cycling and microplastic accumulation.Southern Caribbean: Research and capacity strengthening to support marine stewardship, including potential protected areas, for mesophotic and deep-sea ecosystems in national and adjacent international waters.Beata Ridge, Colombia–Dominican Republic: Deep-sea research to support the Beata Ridge protected area and a joint monitoring and management plan between the two countries.Sargasso Sea: Deep-sea and open-ocean research supporting international efforts toward a large-scale marine protected area beyond national jurisdiction.Heart
Puntacana Foundation Launches Coral Restoration Farm in Dominican Republic
22, 2026, brought together partners from the environmental, business, and philanthropic sectors, including the Puntacana Group, the Dominican Foundation for Marine Studies (FUNDEMAR), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Oceankind, as well as the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic, Armando Paíno Henríquez.The CIM has a specialized laboratory with 32 tanks, expandable to 64, which will support coral restoration, marine monitoring, and the reproduction of key reef species. This facility integrates controlled laboratory environments with active programs in
Plymouth Marine Lab: Study Shows Benefits of Cross-Country Plastic Pollution Management
of plastic in the territorial waters of all other countries.The team then combined the results of the ocean modeling with economic valuation and game-theoretic analysis to assess the benefits of cooperation between 16 North Atlantic nations, including the UK, US, Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and several western European countries.a) Map showing the countries included in the study; the extent of their respective exclusive economic zones (EEZs); their river emissions; and the major ocean currents influencing the transfer dynamics of surface ocean plastic in the region. b) Map showing
UN Deep-sea Mining Rules Unlikely to be Completed by 2023 Deadline, Latam Countries Say
at the ISA, said the ISA Council might not be able to finalize and adopt the required regulations within the two-year period, adding that delegations are far from reaching agreement on key issues.The Latin American and Caribbean Group includes Argentina, the Bahamas, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago.The African Group in July also criticized the fast-tracking of negotiations, saying the task of agreeing on regulations by mid-2023 is “seemingly insurmountable”.Deep-sea mining involves sucking up potato-sized rocks rich in cobalt
Treasures of the Deep
; Fismer has been using Fishers’ Pulse 8X for his entire treasure hunting career. He has dived on over 300 wreck sites in his tenure and continues to utilize the detector in his dives today. Some of Captain Fizz’s most famous treasure recoveries are from The Concepcion wreck off the Dominican Republic, the Maravilla shipwreck in the Bahamas, and The Taj Mahal shipwreck with Sir Arthur Clark.A famous 2,050-year-old Roman shipwreck, located off the remote island of Antikythera in Greece, has been explored many times. The ship was first discovered in October 1900 by a team of Greek sponge divers
The Ocean's Microplastics Mess: Technology & Technique to Identify & Clean Up
between one of six containers located on a separate barge. Once full, the barge is exchanged, and the waste is transferred to a local waste management facility.” Currently functioning Interceptor systems are in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Klang, Malaysia, with more to come in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic.The Ocean Cleanup is also tackling marine plastic pollution, although the challenges of cleaning the gyres are far from few, as contaminants are spread across millions of square miles and travel in all directions. The organization’s system consists of a floater that sits at the surface
Ocean Cleanup Expands to Rivers
under optimized conditions.Four Interceptors have been built to-date; two systems are already operational in Jakarta (Indonesia) and Klang (Malaysia). A third system is in Vietnam to be installed in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam), while the fourth is destined to be deployed in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).In addition to these locations, Thailand has signed up to deploy an Interceptor near Bangkok, and further agreements are nearing completion including one in LA County (USA), kick-starting the scale-up.As part of The Ocean Cleanup’s research to map the problem, it was established that
Weakened Maria Could Regain Major Hurricane Status -NHC
into a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, could regain major hurricane status by Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory. Catastrophic flash flooding was occurring over portions of Puerto Rico with conditions now deteriorating over the eastern Dominican Republic, the NHC said. The hurricane was about 25 miles (45 km) north northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 km per hour), the Miami-based NHC said. Any hurricane with top sustained winds of at least 111 is classified as major. (Reporting
Archaeologists Dive into History
directed numerous shipwreck projects in the US and Caribbean. He is a pioneer in preserving wreck sites as underwater museums. One recent project was working the wreck of the Quedagh Merchant. The ship was reportedly captained by the pirate William Kidd and went down in 1669 off the coast of the Dominican Republic. The remains of the wreck now lie under 10 feet of warm, clear Caribbean water, with cannons an anchors scattered about in plain view. The location makes it ideal for in-depth archaeological study and the perfect place for students to put into practice the methods and techniques learned in
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