On the director's sonar is "The Dive," a true story about the romance between controversial Cuban free diver Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and Frenchwoman Audrey Mestre. Based on true story, Mestre became a free diver under his guidance, and went on to break several world records before dying in 2002 while competing. Ferreras was featured in the 2001 Imax documentary Ocean Men: Extreme Dive.

Biologists have discovered signs of decompression syndrome – the bends – in several different whale fossils, a finding that could revise the evolutionary history of deep diving.

Shark fin is now a health hazard, based on a survey that showed eight of 10 samples sold in Hong Kong contained mercury levels above the legal standard. The highest mercury content was more than four times the permitted limit, according to laboratory tests done by green groups

Since the early 1990’s, aboriginal whale hunters in Russia’s northeastern Chukotka province have reported that about one-tenth of the whales they killed for food smelled so putrid that they were inedible.

Following a significant amount of international media coverage based on a press conference held by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in Madrid on May 8, 2008, Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. wishes to publicly address the most frequently asked questions by media and the public.