"At night it's pitch black down there in bad weather — the sky and sea just form a huge black mass. The most terrifying thing is the sound of an invisible wave breaking behind you. At night, we run a red light to preserve night vision, so there's basically just an eerie red glow emanating from below deck.

Fortunately, there will be live video for you to watch as the iconic ocean liner goes down. The historic ship, which spent nearly three decades docked on the Delaware River, is slated to become the world’s largest artificial reef when it is sunk about 20 miles off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida.

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Fort Lauderdale Ocean Rescue said the conditions aren't safe for most swimmers this weekend, attributing the rough current to Hurricane Melissa, which is ripping through the Caribbean.

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface.

The overwash is due to an area of low pressure offshore that is generating gusty northeast winds across the region.

In Dare County, the highway is closed on Pea Island, between the Marc Basnight Bridge and Rodanthe. In both cases, the highway is shut down because ocean overwash is creating dangerous driving conditions. The DOT expects the road to reopen around noon on Wednesday.

Waves battering the east coast of North Carolina have brought down four more houses in Buxton in the Outer Banks, according to the National Park Service.

A new global synthesis published today in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals how seabirds act as powerful connectors between marine and terrestrial ecosystems and why protecting seabirds is a powerful opportunity when tackling the triple crises of climate change,