A swimming ban, implemented in the Seychelles following two shark attacks last year, has finally been lifted after six months.

At 30 metres in length and 180 metric tons or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed.

Dreaming of diving off an uninhabited tropical island? Doing this by liveaboard boat is one approach, but here, on Bangaram Island, one can live the island dream while staying on the island itself, which has enough infra-structure to make it comfortable.

Researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex have discovered a previously unknown coral reef in the Seychelles.

During the south west monsoon from May to November, it is usual to see up to 200 feeding manta rays and whale sharks in a small enclosed reef the size of a football field off the uninhabited island of Hanifaru in Baa Atoll in the Maldives

The coral wall on the continental shelf off the coast of Mauritania measures 50 to 60 m high and is 190 km long.

A study show that industrial and traditional fishing activities along the coast of Mauritania, are putting these mammals and local marine ecosystems at great danger.

Top sea turtle experts from around the globe have discovered that almost half (45%) of the world’s threatened sea turtle populations are found in the northern Indian Ocean.

A recent investigation by the Sri Lanka's National Aquatic Resources Agency (NARA) has found attempts to remove one of the cannons off this wreck.

Fish catches in Madagascar over the last half-century are double official reports, and much of that fish is being caught by unregulated traditional fishers or accessed cheaply by foreign fishing vessels.