(LONDON) — Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple Michael and Larissa Hoult were on their yacht en route to Fiji ...

Midway on its 800-kilometer (500-mile) voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand, the HMNZS Canterbury received an intriguing report: a maritime patrol aircraft had spotted a vast area of open ...

A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...

This week, the tides were back to normal after the hurricane in the Gulf, making for better access to the beaches. Among the beachcombing finds were sand dollars, sargassum and pumice stone. Pumice, a ...

An underwater volcano is thought to have produced a sheet of pumice that stretches 58 square miles. A massive raft made of pumice stones is floating toward Australia, carrying marine organisms that ...