PANACEA, Fla. (WCTV) – The Gulf Specimen Marine Lab is bustling with visitors this summer. Workers are also busy taking care of a few sea turtles who are having trouble swimming. Two loggerhead sea ...

The Living Coast Discovery Center in Chula Vista is home to all sorts of birds and marine life. Some have been injured in the wild and are brought to the Center for treatment and recovery. Others ...

MARTIN COUNTY —Turtwig and Hank are two green sea turtles who for many years have had buoyancy problems, rendering them unable to live in the wild. The two have been released back into the Florida ...

Sapphire the loggerhead sea turtle in her custom wetsuit. Image from video A loggerhead sea turtle at the Living Coast Discovery Center that suffers from buoyancy problems is now eating and swimming ...

A pet goldfish with buoyancy problems has been filmed with a homemade floating harness. The YouTube video showing the fish in action had been posted in 2010 but has only recently gone viral in the ...

You walk past your fish tank and suddenly notice one of your fish floating strangely near the surface or maybe even upside down. Your heart skips a beat. Is it dead? But wait its gills are still ...

BUOYANCY equilibrium, or being of the same density as sea water, can confer a great economy of effort upon free-swimming animals and is approached or achieved in a variety of ways. While investigating ...