Join Oceanographic Magazine's News lead, Rob Hutchings, as he plunges into the depths of this week's most significant ocean-related stories. From groundbreaking scientific discoveries to urgent environmental concerns, Hutchings provides in-depth analysis and expert commentary on the issues that matter most to our blue planet.

The non-profit research group OCEARCH managed to tag the largest ever recorded great white shark in the Atlantic off the Florida-Georgia coast in mid-January. The researchers now hope that the data provided by the tag will help advance our knowledge of the species.

In partnership with the Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Program and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Walt Disney World Florida is to move from long-term manatee rehabilitation to short-term critical care in a move that will ease pressures on local facilities.

Following a ten-year project exploring Costa Rica's methane seeps, researchers have compiled a collection of specimens, photographs, and DNA sequences enabling them to identify 488 distinct species - the highest biodiversity count ever recorded in a single seep or vent region.

Scientists conducting routine studies at Union Glacier and Schanz Glacier as well as the South Pole have now confirmed that microplastics down to the size of 11 micrometres - about the size of a red blood cell - have been found in the snow of Antarctica.

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up to work on a pioneering project to monitor krill from space.

 Covering an area three times the size of Sweden  - Seabed 2030, has just completed their most challenging accomplishment yet...mapping the Arctic Ocean.