Marine life
Rottnest Island provides backdrop for historic underwater podcast
Seated on a stool on the sea bed just off Rottnest Island, marine biologist Kurt Krispyn did what he believes is a world first – hosted a live podcast on the ocean floor.
- Indigo Lemay-Conway
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A shark lunged at Alex while his back was turned. The ‘helmet’ on his ankle may have saved him
The near miss was captured on a surf cam at Dee Why weeks after a horror run of shark attacks that rocked Sydney.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
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- Wildlife
How this team is helping fur seals escape the scourge of plastic waste
Eyes in the skies can pick out an injured animal easily, even in a colony of hundreds, allowing researchers to conduct targeted rescues.
- Bianca Hall
Victoria’s last fatal shark attack that maybe never was
Victoria’s last fatal shark attack has been misreported for years. Four decades after a windsurfer’s disappearance, a librarian, a scientist and a former police sergeant reveal the truth.
- Cassandra Morgan
Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s frozen depths
Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the Southern Ocean’s frigid waters before a “hunk of a shark” swam into view of a remote camera.
- Rod McGuirk
‘The water was completely dead’: Inside the grim race with a microscopic enemy
‘Seen the worst I can see’: On this remote stretch of beach, a new ground zero has emerged.
- Bianca Hall
Boats wreak hidden havoc on the harbour. Now the damage is being undone
In “a major success for the city”, seagrass has been replanted for the first time underneath new environmentally friendly boat moorings.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Better boat moorings to restore Sydney Harbour
An environmentally friendly version installed off Balmoral Beach has enabled seagrass meadows to be replanted.
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- Sharks
Shark stalks washed-up dolphin carcass on Sydney’s northern beaches
Graphic footage shows a dolphin carcass decomposing on the sand. The dorsal fin in the shallows behind is what closed the beach.
- Jack Gramenz
Dead dolphin attracts sharks
Bungan Beach in Sydney has been closed after a shark sighting. (Instagram/Cameron Bloom)