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 ...

(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 ...

Michael and Larissa Hoult were sailing from the Vava’u islands of Tonga to Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean when they saw it — a “total rock rubble slick” extending for miles around them. The rocks, ...

A "raft" of light, porous volcanic rock that's as big as the island of Manhattan is floating toward Australia, and it could spell relief for the embattled Great Barrier Reef. Satellite images provided ...

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 ...

The source of an enormous floating mass of pumice spotted this week in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand has been discovered: NASA satellite images and other sleuthing science have ...