It may not be the sort of place you associate with a major symposium on shipwrecks. Welland, is a small town in the heart of southern Ontario that’s seen better days. But there’s still one marquis event that takes place here every year: the Symposium on Shipwrecks put on by the Niagara Divers Association.

Just knowing that Vikings started a settlement here a thousand years ago and that the first fishermen from Europe began arriving in the 1500’s adds to a sense of history that cloaks the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s a sense that I’m acutely aware of on this sunny day in June on board the vessel, Ocean Quest, as the skipper, Bill Flaherty, navigates across Conception Bay towards Bell Island.

Pacific Rim Whale Festival Society is celebrating their 26th year at the annual Pacific Rim Whale Festival, March 17-25th, 2012!

With your help, we will launch the world's first openwater shark webcam system to study the Greenland shark.

If you’re a passionate temperate water diver looking for an exciting and different destination, check out Ocean Quest Newfoundland (www.oceanquestadventures.com).

Proposed bylaw would impose fines ranging from $5,000 for a first offence to $100,000 for a third offence

The proposed area extends from the southern tip of Gabriola Island to Saanich Inlet and Cordova Bay, just north of Victoria in British Colombia on Canada's west coast.

Salmon stage spectacular comeback after near-collapse of fisheries a year ago

The sea ice is about two metres thick above frigid Arctic waters over 300 metres deep—and we are camping on it! It’s a strange sensation, knowing that there is nothing but frozen water between you, and water so cold it kills in less than four minutes. This clearly had an effect on Martin, a Swedish photographer, who had a nightmare on his first night out on the ice. “I dreamed that my body heat was melting the ice underneath me and my sleeping bag was about to sink into the depths,” he said, “I’m glad I woke up.”