(LONDON) — Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple Michael and Larissa Hoult were on their yacht en route to Fiji ...

A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...

Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 21 August 2019, this image features a huge raft of pumice rock drifting in the Pacific Ocean. The pumice is believed to have come from an underwater ...

This week, the tides were back to normal after the hurricane in the Gulf, making for better access to the beaches. Among the beachcombing finds were sand dollars, sargassum and pumice stone. Pumice, a ...

An underwater volcano is thought to have produced a sheet of pumice that stretches 58 square miles. A massive raft made of pumice stones is floating toward Australia, carrying marine organisms that ...

They are pumice stones - from the largest pumice raft seen in the past 50 years after an underwater volcano erupted off New Zealand. The pumice stones are lining the high tide mark on Sydney's ...