Editor’s Note: Our readers responded strongly to this story when it originally ran; we’re reposting it here in case you missed it. Like many people, Gigi Torras spent her birthday this year doing ...

The reactions of a 12m-long humpback whale and its gesture of “a little thank you” to a group of Spanish divers who saved it from a drift net was “just incredible”, said one of the rescuers.

An entangled whale shark is now free thanks to a group of free divers. We first told you last month that the juvenile animal was spotted off Maui, caught in heavy rope. Freeing it was difficult ...

Diver Rainer Schimpf was documenting South Africa's annual sardine run when he was partially swallowed by a Bryde's whale Most of us have a cartoonish idea of what the inside of whale’s stomach looks ...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — In what is an exceedingly rare incident, a commercial lobster diver was seriously injured Friday morning when he was caught in the mouth of a humpback whale feeding near a beach, ...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A Massachusetts diver felt like a modern-day Jonah on Friday morning after he was briefly caught in the mouth of a humpback whale. At first, Packard believed he was hit by a ...

A group of divers attempted to free an entangled humpback whale off the coast of Mexico, video shows. A shark was also attached to the entanglement. Photo from Tucker Riggins, UnSplash Divers off the ...

A near-death experience captured the eyes of millions when an enormous humpback whale breached on top of two kayakers. The event took place while the kayakers were enjoying a whale watching trip off ...

Michael Packard was working off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Friday when he had a harrowing experience that will surely be a whale of a tale for him to tell for years to come.