The abandoned net had settled across the shipwreck like a second skeleton. Its lines clung to rusted metal, stretched across openings and disappeared into the dark blue water beyond the […]
Dave Seymour was still lying flat on the board when the ocean beneath him seemed to explode. One moment, the hydrofoil was moving normally across the water off Queensland’s coast. […]
Boris Ibáñez had been fishing alone for some time when a dark shape broke the surface behind his kayak. It was only a fin. From that distance, there was no […]
Hamish Stewart was looking down into cold New Zealand water, searching for scallops, when the people on the boat saw something he could not. Three dark dorsal fins were moving […]
The seal had already lost its safest place. Moments earlier, it had been resting on a piece of Antarctic ice while killer whales moved beneath the surface nearby. The predators […]
Nan Hauser had spent nearly three decades studying whales. She knew how quickly a calm encounter could change. She understood the danger of swimming beside an animal powerful enough to […]
There was no cage between Benoît Girodeau and the open ocean. No reef wall to retreat toward. Only deep blue water, a camera in his hands, and three enormous animals […]
At first, the fish appeared to be moving toward her. Cindy Yang was floating just beneath the surface in the cold water off Norway, her body stretched horizontally as she […]
At first, the fin moving toward Adam Walker looked like the last thing an exhausted swimmer wanted to see in open water. It was approaching quickly through the cold, rough […]
The calf could still swim. Its mother could not. In March 2024, inside a remote tidal lagoon on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, an adult female orca became trapped […]