You take the gear needed for the mission. And for Marine Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks – a company gunnery sergeant at The Basic School at Quantico, Va. -- that means selecting the correct prosthetic leg. He ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Competitive swimmers know that swimming underwater causes less drag resistance than swimming at the surface. Splashing around making waves isn't the most efficient way to ...

As planktonic organisms the larvae of the marine annelid Platynereis swim freely in the open water. They move by activity of their cilia, thousands of tiny hair-like structures forming a band along ...

U.S. Marines could soon be required to take extra swimming and water survival lessons after a series of accidents that have cost the lives of several American soldiers at sea, armed forces news ...

The first time he encountered a tiger shark in the water, marine ecologist Neil Hammerschlag was in the Bahamas conducting research. His team was on a boat and hadn't seen many sharks, so when someone ...

While I’ve been to several national and state parks around the US, I’ve never visited a national marine sanctuary — protected areas off the US coasts and in the Great Lakes. I’ve never scuba dived or ...

New research using high-fidelity numerical simulations is revealing details about how “hotspots” of small swimming organisms might contribute to the mixing of ocean waters. The research is depicted in ...

1. Marine Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks was the first amputee to complete the Marine Corps’ Combat Instructor of Water Survival course. (Marine photo, Eve Baker) 3. Marine Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks (right) with ...

The first time he encountered a tiger shark in the water, marine ecologist Neil Hammerschlag was in the Bahamas conducting research. His team was on a boat and they hadn’t seen many sharks, so when ...