There's no shortage of shark-related news in in Australia - but despite our fearful fascination with these majestic beasts, the chances of one of those needle-like teeth ever puncturing your skin are staggeringly low.
Sharks have scared us a lot this year, primarily for suspected attacks on humans - however, humans are a larger threat to sharks than sharks are to us.
A windswept Arctic fox, a murmuration of birds facing a snowstorm in the Himalayas, and a man and a boy in a flooded living room are among the images recognized in this year's Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's Environmental Photography Award.
Visitors to a beach resort city in southwest Japan got a shock when they woke to discover the usually crystal-clear sea had turned an ominous shade of red – after a local brewery sprung a leak.
The mother of teenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, said her son loved solving his Rubik's cube and even took it on board with him.
Authorities have begun the process of probing the cause of the underwater implosion and grappled with questions of who was responsible for determining how the tragedy unfolded.
Stockton Rush wore a hard-hat and stood next to one of his submersible crafts last year full of enthusiasm as he told a bunch of students about the thrills and perils of being a deep-sea explorer.
There's no other comparable ocean search, especially with so many countries and even commercial enterprises being involved, naval historian, Norman Polmar, said.
As officials work to determine the timeline and circumstances of the accident, remotely operated vehicles will be used to map out the Titan's debris field more than 3.2kms deep in the ocean.
Many questions still remain as authorities continue searching for debris, including when the implosion happened and what exactly went wrong with the sub.
US film director James Cameron, who helmed the hit 1997 film Titanic and has himself made 33 dives to the wreckage, has spoken after it was announced that a missing Titanic-bound submersible suffered a "catastrophic implosion," killing five people on board.