The 17th and 18th-century wrecks were scuttled to form a protective blockade in the Djupasund strait to protect he strategic naval port of Karlskrona from foreign naval attacks.
Diver set a national spring diving depth record in November at Missouri’s Roaring River Spring, bypassing the previous record of 462 feet set at Texas’ Phantom Springs Cave.
Scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand found a newly-hatched ghost shark while pulling samples for commercial fish stock assessment.