Pilot Jeremy Lukowski relied on what he had learned from his parents and from his training as an F-16 pilot in order to survive the crash of a single-engine plane into the Florida Straits late Saturday night.

Real People: Meet Karissa Teer, Alamance County’s youngest certified diver –  Karissa Teer has accomplished something tha

December 28th, 2009 is a day Calvin College student, Matthew DeVlieger will never forget. He was paralyzed from the chest down in a scuba diving accident. Doctors told him he’d never walk again. But he’s beating the odds, with a little help from home.

MANATEE — A scuba diver captured a venomous lionfish this week off Anna Maria Island, leaving marine biologists concerned that the non-native species could establish itself here.

Braves GM scuba dives into whole new world

A nine-year-old Key West girl is recovering from hand surgery this week after a barracuda bit her during a family snorkeling trip.While rare, says George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida and the state’s Museum of Natural History, he hears of barracuda attacks occasionally.

By Bill Hardman, Times Correspondent Friday, July 30, 2010 Lobsters: We know the results for the Florida mini­season for sportsmen. Preliminary reports indicate more lobsters in the Florida Keys than in past years. The lobsters migrate into shallower water for the late spring and summer breeding season. For this miniseason, I was just off the coast of Miami’s South Beach and the lobster count …

Calm seas and sunny skies may have spurred a heavy turnout for Wednesday’s opener of the two-day statewide lobster recreational miniseason in South Florida. But the balmy weather apparently did nothing to enhance diver success, and marine law enforcement officers were obliged to curb the usual crop of lawbreakers.

Calm seas and sunny skies may have spurred a heavy turnout for Wednesday’s opener of the two-day statewide lobster recreational miniseason in South Florida. But the balmy weather apparently did nothing to enhance diver success, and marine law enforcement officers were obliged to curb the usual crop of lawbreakers.

A Selinsgrove native has been named by a political news publication in Washington as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” on Capitol Hill. In fact, 24-year-old Laura Donahoe, a graduate of Susquehanna University, is Number 2 on the Top 50 list compiled, judged and published by the staff of “The Hill,” a newspaper and website focusing Congressional and political news in Washington.