Japan's legendary Ama free-diving women still plumb the waters around Sugashima Island in search of abalone, turban shell and Ise spiny lobster. We glimpse the island through this extraordinary ...

The wave buoy off the coast of Kangaroo Island provides critical data for fishers, commercial divers, shipping companies and surfers but it has been deactivated since September, prompting questions ...

Divers and conservationists give anecdotal accounts of the trade devastating the abalone population, but poachers appear to ...

As for recreational abalone diving on the North Coast, it’s been shut down since the kelp forest collapsed (commercial abalone diving was banned long ago). Things are precarious all around for ...