2013 will see conferences on shipwrecks in Plymouth UK and outside Toronto, Canada

It’s an unsettled kind of morning on Chedabucto Bay of Canada’s east coast. The sun is shining—it’s really quite pleasant—but there’s a brisk wind blowing from the southwest. What that translates into here in the waters between Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia is heavy seas. We’re pounding through four to six foot swells in a 25-foot rigid hull inflatable boat. The ride out to the dive site is turning out to be a wild, you might say bone-jarring, experience. All this for a dive that I’m still not certain I want to do at all.

The Canadian government launches its largest search yet for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 quest for the Northwest Passage.

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.