Professional divers have located the wreck of the sunken 19th century steamship SS Portland 460 feet deep in Massachusetts' Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and found artifacts but no human remains. Five divers led by Bob Foster were the first to see the shipwreck nearly 20 years after it was discovered by underwater explorers Arnold Carr and John Fish. At the time, the wreck was not confirmed as that of the Portland, which sunk amid a storm in 1898 while sailing from Boston to Portland, Maine.

New Yorker Ashrita Furman, the man who holds more world records than anyone in history, captured two new Guinness World Records by bouncing his way across the bottom of a pool on a pogo stick. Traveling 1,680 feet, Furman set the first Guinness World Record in an underwater pogo stick category. However after a short break, Furman broke his own record for underwater hula hoping with 2 minutes, 38 seconds.

Ashrita Furman, a 52-year-old man from New York claims to have set yet another world record. Well known for setting as many as 54 bizarre world records, Furman is claiming another entry in the Guinness Book of World Records by doing the maximum squat thrusts in one minute. But the beauty of Furman's recent record lies in its duality. Not only did he do maximum squats, he performed the feat on the back of an elephant.

Professional German diver Wilfried Thiesen was diving in an underwater cave off Mauritius along the coast of Africa when he found a 1976 Notre Dame class ring. Thiesen sent an email to Notre Dame describing the class ring he had found and Steve Ruic, writer on staff, received the email. Ruic, in turn, sent out notices about the ring to the alumni and staff, but no one came forward.

Residents at a coastal community in Lyme Regis, Dorset, Dorchester County in England, have nicknamed two-year-old springer spaniel "Aquadog" because of her ability to swim underwater. The dog's owner Rob Vaughan said, "She's just amazing. You can even see bubbles coming from her nose while she's under so she knows by instinct to breathe out but still holds her breath while she's under. "